Town paid out £6,264,471 in agents’ fees between February 2nd 2024 and February 3rd this year, the least of the clubs currently in the Premier League.

Overall, top-flight clubs spent £409,137,387 on agents during the period with Chelsea paying out the most, £60,384,449. Southampton’s £8,900,718 spent the second least after Town.

The financial difference between the Premier League and Championship is illustrated by Town having paid out only £1,263,523 on agents’ fees between February 1st 2023 and February 1st last year, which in turn was up on the £849,657 paid out during the previous 12 months during which time the club was in League One.

As well as new permanent - among them recruits for the U21s - and loan signings, the £6,264,471 includes the fees relating to new contracts over the course of the year for manager Kieran McKenna as well as Christian Walton, Cieran Slicker, Conor Chaplin, Wes Burns, Leif Davis, Luke Woolfenden and Sam Morsy, and also a number of young players. The full report can be found here.

The FA has been required to publish clubs' spending on intermediaries by FIFA regulations since April 2015.

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Gforce added 16:23 - Apr 14 Leeches and parasites the lot of them. All that money should be ploughed back into the game at grass roots level.
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Marcus added 16:30 - Apr 14 I need to change career path!
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bringbacktheglory added 16:33 - Apr 14 How doe$ one become an agent? A$king for a friend… Absolutely disgusting amount of money. Football is absurd but the clubs/players/staff bring so much meaning to people’s lives, I can get over how much money is in football. But those figures are painful to read.
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naa added 16:37 - Apr 14 A comically large amount of money. But Chelsea and Man City seem to have paid about 3 times more than anyone else. We know that Chelsea just love signing players but I thought City had a fairly stable squad (one of the reasons people cite for their substandard season) so how have they spent so much?
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RegencyBlue added 16:46 - Apr 14 And right there is the problem with modern football. Hundreds of millions of pounds sucked out of the game by parasites and leeches masquerading as professional agents when most are nothing of the sort!
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bluesman added 16:59 - Apr 14 There is a lot of nonsense talked on here about how we are the biggest spenders in the Premier League this year. Obviously the club has to spend a significant amount of money this season, and did so. That was because the previous ten years we’d spent less than £20m net. To put that in perspective Arsenal and Chelsea spent over a billion, and most of the current top clubs over half a billion. West Ham spent over a quarter of a billion over the last five years, Forest over £200m, and Wolves spent £97m just to get out of the Championship. And of course the cost of players has risen much faster than inflation. To say we still have a lot of catching up to do is a huge understatement, as you can see from our league position.

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MickMillsTash added 17:05 - Apr 14 Well Done Premier league clubs, Its obviously not enough - NOW- Let's also stop Pensioner discounts for season tickets and kick folk out of seats to sell more corporate packages so the clubs can give more to AGENTS Some quick Maths - just in case we were wondering where season ticket money went:- Happy to be corrected by someone who has some facts 20 clubs. FACT Average season tickets sold per club = 30000 (guess) Average season ticket price = 700£ (ex VAT). (guess) Total Season ticket sales = 20 x 30000 x 700 = 420Mill£ Agent Spend. = 409Mill£ Which = the Greatest league in the world Abracadabra !!

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blueboy1981 added 17:20 - Apr 14 FOOTBALL - has Gone Stark Raving MAD !! How can anyone condone such Crazy Expenditure ? All paid for by Sponsors and Supporters ! Who are the Mugs ? - obviously NOT the Agents !!
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 17:32 - Apr 14 I notice that in another thread, someone, I think it was "Orraman", criticised the BBC Match of the Day team for their unbalanced review of the game. I agree 100%. In fact, the two pundits didn't even mention Ipswich at all in their post-match analysis - how much more biased than that can you be? Nothing about the fact that we were really up for the game despite our fairly hopeless position, that we defended really well, and that we were backed by great support from the stands. Yes the "money clubs" really do get all the glory, but I know where my loyalties lie. COYB!

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churchmans81 added 17:41 - Apr 14 Ben Godfrey. I’d forgotten him. Is he injured?
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DocMartyn added 17:47 - Apr 14 @naa It's not just transfers in/out - as the table shows, it's things like contract renegotiations, etc.
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ArnieM added 17:53 - Apr 14 Well done Town for that, but bloody hell what a bunch of leeches these agents are.
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trncbluearmy added 18:57 - Apr 14 The agent works fir the player but the football club pays! Why?
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BotesdaleBlue added 19:41 - Apr 14 I loathe and resent every penny we spend on agents fees. End of.
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darkhorse28 added 20:11 - Apr 14 @bluesman so the more a club spends, the lower expectations should be? I think maybe you drank the kool aid. That’s not true, Wolves spent very little (net) over about three seasons recently in the prem. PSR works over three years, so there is no 10 year measure: and by definition, surely every promoted team has achieved the same level of performance. Leif isn’t worth £1 million and Cam and Sam etc aren’t worth peanuts. We’ve spent badly. £150 million, for what is £80 value now, contrasted to Brighton, Forest, Brentford. Fulham, Bournemouth who sign players for £3 to 7 million, now worth £70 million plus each. The clubs doing the best, sign players low, sell high, and re-invest, and they have the networks and pay agents to facilitate that.., I’d happily pay an agent for a Mktkma, Mbeuno, Cuhna etc etc .., when we’re stuck in EFL and not global markets, our agent fees will be less, that’s not a positive KPI.

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Dissboyitfc added 20:58 - Apr 14 still way too much, Parasites!!!
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ITFCSG added 21:30 - Apr 14 Seems way over the budget bearing in mind we aren't even looking for non-British players at clubs in Europe, South and Central America and Asia. Wolves spend is double of ours but boy look at the players they signed from Brazil and Portugal. Ditto Palace, Forest and Everton. Pound for pound I don't think are scouting network is delivering the players they should.
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Dennyx4 added 22:05 - Apr 14 It is a good sign, as the agents fees usually link to the fee spent or a percentage of the wages a player earns.
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MBG added 00:46 - Apr 15 Football governance is a joke. A rule prohibiting clubs from paying fees to a party which does not represent them could easily be introduced. I am not aware of any other sport where this kind of thing is allowed to happen.
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bluebullet29l added 07:56 - Apr 15 Whoopy do...makes me feel so much better about relegation...congratulations to everyone at the club
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JewellintheTown added 08:27 - Apr 15 Top of the table! Get it! Or is that bottom?
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wellhungphil added 09:21 - Apr 15 So, essentially, either pay extortionate bribes to agents, or get dumped out of the top flight as the better players will be put out of reach?
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Marinersnose added 17:56 - Apr 15 Well done Ipswich. Unfortunately Man City and Chelski appear to be able to spend whatever they like to bulk buy talent without any comeback. The PL is indeed riddled with corruption and money unfortunately talks. Whilst the experience of seeing my team back in the top flight again it was abundantly clear from the first game against Liverpool that big teams get all decisions and the likes of Ipswich aren’t wanted at this level.

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blues1 added 17:58 - Apr 15 Darkhorse28. Still talking rubbish. Saying the £150m of players weve signed now only worth £80m. And who told I that? Of course, no1. Just making it up as u go along.
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kiwiblue added 00:19 - Apr 17 Awful situation along with the Sky funding and the lack of control over the funding and spend of clubs. Gotta change or will be ridicule of the sports world.
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