03 Jan 2020 22:37:25
The Chump that is Raiola is now reported to be criticising Ajax after helping to move on two of their best players. I don't doubt they wanted to better their careers by moving to top European clubs, but Ajax is a Legend maker, maybe its time for all clubs to boycott him and his players will soon leave his money grabbing grasp.

1.) 03 Jan 2020
03 Jan 2020 22:47:55
Jesus Ed's I know I used a few stars for a swear word, but changing it to CHUMP?, maybe idiot, prat, fool etc but to suggest I said CHUMP🤔.

{Ed047's Note - I was gonna put clunge! 😂

2.) 04 Jan 2020
04 Jan 2020 06:42:28
Well, neither the players or selling clubs are going to mind who the agent is as long as they get the best deal for themselves. And the buying club could be forced to deal with him especially if he has a special player on his hands and there is scarcity of quality options.

The only way would be if young players with potential themselves don't choose him as their agent, which is unlikely given the fact they know they are going to get a great deal and probably also help them enhance their careers.

3.) 04 Jan 2020
04 Jan 2020 07:47:53
On a wider point, it is immoral that an Agent can earn commission from both the selling and buying clubs. And how dumb is a player thatchers Agent can earn tens of millions for his transfer? The whole transfer system and agents fees is an appalling mess.

4.) 04 Jan 2020
04 Jan 2020 08:32:43
It's spiralled out of control, players are within reason free to choose who represents them. That boat has sailed and it will be almost impossible to change its course now.

I think the easier solution would be to put a cap on transfer fees, and on the number of transfers a club can make in one season.

If the transfer fee for a player was capped at the total amount he will be paid over the remainder of his contract then I think that is fair.

Club's pay players what they feel the player is worth. So why demand more than you feel he is worth when selling?

For example if a club pays a player 10m a year on a 5 year contract than they are saying he is worth 50m at the start of that contract. So after they have had 2 years of value from that player and he has 3 years remaining on a 10m a year contract then a buying club would only have to pay 30m.

You then cap agents fees at 10% of the transfer value with an agreement made between both club's as to how much of that fee is paid by which club. So maybe when a club is actively looking to sell a player they will maybe pay 6% with the buying club paying 4%, while when the bid is hostile and the selling club does not wish to sell then maybe the buying club will pick up all bill for the whole 10%.

To keep control of transfers you could cap transfers to 3 signings per season. To stop the big club's just signing all the best players in one summer. That would also include players for the youth academy. Which would be far more important for every club if they are limited to signing 3 players a season.

{Ed025's Note - that makes a lot of sense shappy..

5.) 04 Jan 2020
04 Jan 2020 10:16:20
I lived in Netherlands for a while, still sometimes look at dutch newspapers to try and keep my understanding of the language -I read this summer a football journalist claimed Barcelona came back in at the last minute for De Ligt just as he was about to sign for Juve . as they couldn't match Juves wage offer which would upset the Barcelona structure Raiola wouldn't have a last minute sit down with them. When Barcelona said they were disappointed and said De ligt would be better off with them Raiola apparently said well we can sit down and talk again in a couple of years -despite de ligt just about to sign a 5-6 year deal with Juve. Not good for football but his clients seem to love him.