These agents though. They get to eat a cut on the player’s pay. Then for whatever reason, they also want to get these 10-30% cuts on the inter-club transaction fee. As if clubs can’t just call each other. It’s such a massive market inefficiency. All other mature markets, especially for such expensive services have reasonable transaction fees in the order of 0,5 to 5%.
It’s much easier for us to build out a contract team around Huss Famy and pay them £1-2m a year to execute all trades. But for whatever reason, football has allowed agents to capture and constrict it
