Town Spend Least in Premier League On Agents
Monday, 14th Apr 2025 16:14

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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darkhorse28 added 11:06 - Apr 19

This has been our biggest failure and weakness. I think we would have finished above Wolves under O’Neil. We seemed to have more belief, and the difference in quality Cuhna aside, isn’t big.

But they have global reach, and networks, and leveraged them to bring in a manager who was elite, and has won titles across the world, including a Portuguese league title…, he wasn’t operating in the EFL, and Wolves as a club don’t, it’s a world class league, that needs world class networks and relationships. They used that and they’ll get the £200 million benefit of that.

We spent £155 million on players, and world class wages for out management t last summer.

Yet the one essential dynamic, that of Tories networks, relationships, talent ID and global reach was neglected.

And he’s, it’s true these things take time to develop, but you can buy those relationships, other clubs do all the time, you bring in the senior executives, who have spent a lifetime building those networks. It can happen very quickly, with the right focus and investment.

Not doing it quickly, was a choice, and a poor strategic one.

I worry the egos above KM are too big to see the weakness, and bring in truly elite executives with gkobel reach, it looks like a decision born of insecurity.

If you spend world leading levels of investment (£155 million) you can prioritise a top executive team, with world class contacts and networks.

We didn’t do that, and the value other clubs get from theirs, we can see in the value metrics of signings, managers, and quality in the pitch.

I’m sure the owners get it, they’ve been unbelievable in their support so far.