West Ham’s practise of using intermediaries for player transfers has come under scrutiny with the club releasing for publication the amount of money that has been spent on football agents over the last twelve months.
Incredibly, even though that period covered technical director Tim Stediten’s employment, the Hammers still racked up one of the highest spends in the Premier league just on agents fees.
Published in thesun.co.uk, the exact amount spent by West Ham on intermediary agents since February 2024 was a jaw dropping nineteen million pounds. Which, as the news ‘paper’ gleefully announces, means that:
“They have effectively shelled out £542,000 to agents for every one of their 35 points so far this season.”
West Ham’s practise of ’employing agents to deal with agents’ in player transfers makes theirs the eighth highest spend in the Premier League, to sit seventeenth just a few points away from the relegation zone and still some way short of David Moyes’ points tally during his first season in charge: Which now represents the football club’s worst performance in five years.
Agent spend: Massive indeed. Not what we meant when we sang though.
That eighteen million would have bought the club a young, up and coming striker. Instead it has bought anything but success. As ‘The Sun’ – dripping gleefully with Eastenders analogies – puts it: “Dot Cotton could have performed better in the transfer market than now departed technical director Tim Steidten.
Will the new trio of Sullivan, Potter and Macaulay who are tasked with overseeing the summer ‘rebuild’ perform any better in the 1st June window? West Ham supporters can only hope. The signs are not good.
Sullivan is the issue. Things will never be any different while he runs the club like its his playstation.
Its Sullivan and not Potter or Macaulay that will definitely be the problem again. You can count on him messing up any plans we have.