[Football] Interesting insight into transfer deadline day

[Bozza]

A 9 minute video showing how the day went at Sheffield United who also missed out on players, who wanted to join, for various reasons.

(Includes a brief cameo of ex-Albion stalwart Paul Watson)

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...line-day-access-all-areas-at-sheffield-united

 

[Leegull]

A 9 minute video showing how the day went at Sheffield United who also missed out on players, who wanted to join, for various reasons.

(Includes a brief cameo of ex-Albion stalwart Paul Watson)

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...line-day-access-all-areas-at-sheffield-united

Good watch that, very interesting, I'd imagine something similar going on down at Lancing but obviously Chris would have be playing cribbage and not pool.
They definitely all would have been cursing the agents though, holding the clubs to ransom for their own gain but often to the detriment of their own players it would seem.

 

[Bigtomfu]

A 9 minute video showing how the day went at Sheffield United who also missed out on players, who wanted to join, for various reasons.

(Includes a brief cameo of ex-Albion stalwart Paul Watson)

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...line-day-access-all-areas-at-sheffield-united

Flagged this on the Bloom happy with Summer transfers thread *FIXTURES KLAXON* and tagged Paul Winstanley about it on Twitter stating no wonder it's tough if this is the crap he and the club have to put up with (which he then liked).

Agents bear the brunt of my angst having watched it especially the idiot keeping Jerome Sinclair sat at Sheffield station while he tried to extract more ££££ from United. What a weasel.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

I doubt there's too much argument that agents are the worst part of modern football. They are why the prices have inflated to ridiculous levels. They are opportunists of the highest (or lowest?) order, they're making a living through an accepted form of extortion.

Are agents regulated at all, does anybody know?

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

Good watch that, very interesting, I'd imagine something similar going on down at Lancing but obviously Chris would have be playing cribbage and not pool.
They definitely all would have been cursing the agents though, holding the clubs to ransom for their own gain but often to the detriment of their own players it would seem.

Yep. Gone are the days when Peter Taylor The First said to Wardy "Right, it's fifty quid a week. Sign there." And the rest is history....If only agents were history too....!

 

[BrianWade4]

Surprisingly the agents come over badly

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Reminisecent of estate agents in the late 80s? Inflation followed. Fancy that, eh?

 

[Dorset Seagull]

The thing that surprised me most was they appeared to have drawn up their most wanted list on deadline day itself. Was this just an illusion of the video as none of the targets seemed to me to have been approached before then?? Apart from maybe the Scots lad

 

[Goldstone1976]

It would be interesting if a club let a fan shadow a senior exec for deadline day. I wonder if a pro club would ever let that happen?

 

[Stat Brother]

The thing that surprised me most was they appeared to have drawn up their most wanted list on deadline day itself. Was this just an illusion of the video as none of the targets seemed to me to have been approached before then?? Apart from maybe the Scots lad

Absolutely, teams can cry all they want about the situation but Utd didn't come across as professional in the slightest.

They might as well have helped out with their own ransom note by spending the rest of the window cutting relevant words out of the newspaper and already handcuffing themselves to a radiator.

They make one reference to Donaldson (?) now being surplus to requirements, fair enough, maybe that was a deal being chased throughout the window and they were waiting on 'arry.

But beyond that Utd were just asking to be taken advantage of, and then moaning that they were.

 

[SeagullDubai]

I doubt there's too much argument that agents are the worst part of modern football. They are why the prices have inflated to ridiculous levels. They are opportunists of the highest (or lowest?) order, they're making a living through an accepted form of extortion.

Are agents regulated at all, does anybody know?

Agents and FIFA are the worst part of modern football. FIFA have set the bar for unscrupulous practices. The leeches are merely playing follow the leader.
Imagine FIFA regulating this sector of the game.


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[Justice]

Did anyone see Paul Watsons tweet about our summer recruitment?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Did anyone see Paul Watsons tweet about our summer recruitment?

Link?

 

[Bozza]

Link?

It's on another thread somewhere, and I can't find it now. I also think he's since protected his account.

But in short he said that he'd been told by Albion insiders that our transfer window had been a shambles.

 

[GreersElbow]

It's on another thread somewhere, and I can't find it now. I also think he's since protected his account.

But in short he said that he'd been told by Albion insiders that our transfer window had been a shambles.

Doesn't really take a genius to figure that out. Albeit, fortune was against us - we could have done better.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Someone used a good analogy that a transfer is a bit like buying a house - agreeing the sale is the easy bit, then you have surveys and searches, negotiating over the results of those, any stuff to be left, mortgage arrangements an finance confirmed, exchange of contracts and completion. You've then got potentially a chain either side of that contract, each of which can break the chain.

 

[Simster]

Surprisingly the agents come over badly

Agents in any guise are usually talentless. I'm sure we can all agree on that.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It's on another thread somewhere, and I can't find it now. I also think he's since protected his account.

But in short he said that he'd been told by Albion insiders that our transfer window had been a shambles.

Thank you, I've now found it.
https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/showthread.php?355803-Paul-Watson&highlight=watson

Personally, if that is his account, I think there is some sour grapes in it.

I'm not saying it isn't true, but not very professional.

 

[essbee1]

Agents in any guise are usually talentless. I'm sure we can all agree on that.

and usually complete a*seholes as well.

 

[Bozza]

Thank you, I've now found it.
https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/showthread.php?355803-Paul-Watson&highlight=watson

Personally, if that is his account, I think there is some sour grapes in it.

I'm not saying it isn't true, but not very professional.

I don't doubt it is his real account.