Business Daily meets: Football agent Kees Vos
Business Daily
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4.4 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
It is transfer deadline day for football's most competitive league - the Premier League - when clubs can add players to their squad who were previously under contract with another club.
In the cut and thrust of football's transfer market are the agents. Among them, Kees Vos - who has been described as one of the most influential figures in world football. As agent to Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag, he is said to control the ins and outs of the club.
Matt Lines talks to him about the stories behind the headline transfer sagas and how the industry has changed during his 20 years in the business.
(Photo: Kees Vos. Credit: SEG Entertainment)
Presented/produced by Matt Lines
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Matt Lines and welcome to Business Daily Meets from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:08.3 | Today, we're meeting one of the world's most influential football agents. |
| 0:12.8 | Kays Voss, founder of Sports Entertainment Group, |
| 0:15.8 | who looks after Premier League footballers Rasmus Hoyland and Cody Gakpo |
| 0:19.6 | and managers like Eric Tanhag and Pep Guardiola. |
| 0:23.1 | The football industry as such is more and more popular and it attracts a lot of people and people want to be part of it. |
| 0:29.4 | It's a sexy business. It's appealing. |
| 0:32.0 | We hear about his rise up through the industry, starting the agency from nothing to making some of the most headline-grabbing deals of all time. |
| 0:39.6 | It was a deal between two clubs back then. |
| 0:41.8 | We didn't want to deal with each other. |
| 0:44.1 | It was back then when Wenger was in Arsenal and Sir Alex Ferguson was running Manchester |
| 0:49.5 | United. |
| 0:50.1 | To manage that and to get that done was something I'm proud of. |
| 0:55.7 | He tells us how much the sport has changed in the 20 years he's been working and how he |
| 1:00.3 | sees the future of the game. |
| 1:01.7 | It's a red race that everybody's pushing each other to the limit, financially but also |
| 1:07.4 | physically, but it's also kind of an addiction to be part of it. |
| 1:11.1 | There's no player that says, don't, don't play me these games. |
| 1:14.1 | They all want to play them. |
| 1:15.8 | And gives us some life advice along the way. |
| 1:18.6 | Never meet your hero. |
| 1:19.5 | Then they become human, you know, and then there's nothing to look up to anymore. |
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