It's been mentioned on another thread that one reason our move for the young Swedish international striker broke down was that the agent demanded a fee of €150,000.
This may or may not be true but it does highlight once again what a blight on the game agents have become.
They have often been described as parasites and are routinely responsible for unsettling players and trying to engineer moves so that they, the agent, receive an obscene fee for their "services."
I have never understood why it is the clubs who pay the agents' fees. Surely these costs should be met by the players as technically it is they who employ the agents.
Maybe if the rules were changed then the problems created by agents would diminish considerably.