I'm Joe Devine and welcome to Whiteboard Football Extra. Today I'm joined by Nick Miller to talk about

Mina Royola and the role of agents or super agents in modern football. We spoke for 20, 25 minutes or so

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Most people's first thought on the topic of football agents tends to be rather negative.

But for those of us, maybe less traversing the ways of football agents, Nick, can you just give us a brief description of their general role?

Well, obviously the kind of traditional role of an agent is to look after a player's contract,

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