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the true winners in all this, the parasitic agents

 

Them, the players and some club owners. Everybody else loses out. People should just end their Sky subscriptions and turn to illegal streams in their droves in disgust.

What's wrong with people being rewarded for entertaining others?

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the true winners in all this, the parasitic agents

 

Them, the players and some club owners. Everybody else loses out. People should just end their Sky subscriptions and turn to illegal streams in their droves in disgust.

What's wrong with people being rewarded for entertaining others?

players fine, some owners less good agents fuck those parasites and everything they stand for

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Honestly don't know how they're turning a profit on that outlay :lol:

 

Hope they go bust.

 

Seriously, can anyone explain how this is a sensible business plan? :lol:

 

How are they recouping that?

 

No idea, I'm sure someone will piece it together - David Conn is usually pretty clued up on this sort of stuff.

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It's probably not on its own, but I was of the impression that battling for the TV rights is all to do with selling the lot together with phone and broadband packages.

 

Quad play services, Sky is launching it's own Network (virtually) on O2 and BT is buying EE.  It's easier to cross sell for them when they can bundle all 4 services to customers.

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The extra £2bn+ equates to £700m each year

 

Aggregate attendances in the PL are just under 14m per season

 

So as of today, clubs will (on average) pick up an extra £50 from the TV deal for every attendee from this deal alone

 

Decent gates used to be a strength of NUFC, but it's utterly irrelevant now, getting 5,000 through the door would barely make a difference.

 

 

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the true winners in all this, the parasitic agents

 

Them, the players and some club owners. Everybody else loses out. People should just end their Sky subscriptions and turn to illegal streams in their droves in disgust.

What's wrong with people being rewarded for entertaining others?

players fine, some owners less good agents fuck those parasites and everything they stand for

Agents are the only ones making sure players get their fair share. Without agents, do you think owners would pay as much as they do today?

 

It's why most players love their agents.

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Disagree. Really not sure that agents need to exist. They're just another example of one of these middle-man jobs where somebody is making a lot of money despite not really creating anything of value themselves; e.g. ticket touts or buy-to-let lenders. There is also an obvious and inherent conflict of interest at play in that a large amount of the time they're not getting the best deal for the player but getting the best deal for themselves, prioritising the immediate short term. Hence why you see numerous players making bad moves to a big club's academy or to some footballing backwater that doesn't benefit their career or their earnings in the long run but makes the agent some cash in the short term. I mean, maybe they do push the wages up for players across the board but I'm pretty convinced they're simply performing a role that the player or a family member could quite easily do themself. Players have all the power now regardless of whether they have agents or not; Bosman saw to that.

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Disagree. Really not sure that agents need to exist. They're just another example of one of these middle-man jobs where somebody is making a lot of money despite not really creating anything of value themselves; e.g. ticket touts or buy-to-let lenders. There is also an obvious and inherent conflict of interest at play in that a large amount of the time they're not getting the best deal for the player but getting the best deal for themselves, prioritising the immediate short term. Hence why you see numerous players making bad moves to a big club's academy or to some footballing backwater that doesn't benefit their career or their earnings in the long run but makes the agent some cash in the short term. I mean, maybe they do push the wages up for players across the board but I'm pretty convinced they're simply performing a role that the player or a family member could quite easily do themself. Players have all the power now regardless of whether they have agents or not; Bosman saw to that.

Like all intermediaries, agents perform tasks that the players/clients do not have the knowledge, time, or preparation for. The vast majority of players have no interest in handling the business the agents does for them and most are not capable anyway. It is unlikely that a negotiation between highly trained and profit-oriented club management and a player with no experience in the matter will go well. Agents are like banks, they are essential in the current system, but they need to be more closely regulated in their behaviour and duly punished for nefarious dealings because currently they have too much power and too much scope for moral hazard (i.e. the expensive, yet risky moves you covered). Football and sport in general would benefit from better oversight and organisation of agents.

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"I sit here before you making no secret of the fact that that money will continue to be invested by the clubs in terms of playing talent; to continue to to put on the best show they possibly can.

 

The money will also be invested in stadia. Clubs have new stadia plans and improvement plans.

 

The clubs will continue to invest in youth development. They will continue to invest in good causes."

 

 

I wonder if, on the hopeful assumption Scudamore genuinely gave a shit about anything that hints at being related to the football itself, he would have anything to say about the fact we won't do any of the above things.

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