Gurgen wrote:kamikaze wrote:i'm surprised that a firm of european solicitors hasn't come in and undercut the football agent market. seems silly for big players to give away a big % of their salaries to sleazy agents when they could just get their tax and contract advice for a set fee or an hourly rate from a law firm that prob has (or could easily develop) contacts with all the big clubs in europe.
Most (big) players have both a lawyer and an agent for transfer negotiations.
that's mostly how it works in the states as well, but the agent just seems superfluous to me. it's not like they serve any useful brokerage function that the law firm couldn't - the teams already know the player, and the player already knows the teams.