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The Rest Is Football

The Problem With Agent Fees, Amorim To Liverpool & Advice For Parents Of Young Players

The Rest Is Football

Goalhanger

Football, Sports, Soccer

4.33.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Should clubs be allowed to pay agents directly? Would Rúben Amorim be a good fit if he took over at Liverpool next season? What advice would our trio give to parents of youngsters getting into the game? Gary, Alan and Micah also discuss the hardest role in sports broadcasting. Is it the presenter, pundit, commentator or co-commentator? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:17.0

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0:23.7

Go get yours now and smell finer than the finest fragrances. Hello and

0:45.8

welcome to the rest is football question and answer episode with Alan Shearer, Micah Richards and me Gary Linica. Lots of brilliant questions again. Thank you so much for sending them in. Let's get cracking.

0:50.3

I want to start with this one actually because it's quite an interesting topic

0:53.5

it's from Chris Evans now I don't know whether that's the DJ Chris Evans or

0:58.6

a broadcaster or even Captain America I suspect it's neither, but the question is,

1:06.0

it was released this week that Premier League clubs have spent 409 million

1:10.4

pounds on agent fees in the last year and 2.3 billion in the past nine years.

1:17.8

What do you make of these sort of figures being spent on agents and what was your own experience of agents like.

1:24.0

Well my experience of agents like, my experience with my agent was certainly different to that.

1:28.0

In those days the player paid the agent Alan.

1:33.2

I'm all right and saying the top of that list with Chelsea is around about 75 million pounds.

1:39.5

Yeah I prepared for this I got the actual list.

1:42.3

70 odd million pound on agents fees

1:46.7

Whoever the agents are by the way they've swam the channel because some of those players have given

1:51.3

Chelsea my goodness well not only that I've because some of those players have given Chelsea. My goodness.

1:54.0

Well not only that, I've got the top 10 actually, it makes it mad.

1:58.0

287 million pounds, Chelsea, 286 million pounds, Manchester City,

2:05.0

230 million pounds,

2:08.0

Liverpool,

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