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Everton 'reported' for failing to pay agent's fee
Updated Matt Hughes of the Mail is back, this time with an "exclusive" claiming that Everton have been reported to the Premier League for reneging on a pledge to pay an agent fee related to a signing made during the 2021-22 season.
According to Hughes's report, a global agency has sent numerous requests to the club regarding an unpaid invoice "worth several hundred thousand pounds" while also hiring a debt recovery service to try and get what they claim is owed.
Hughes says that Everton have said they didn't feel obligated to fulfil the payment because the agent in question was not declared on the registration documents sent to the Premier League and Football Association when the international player was signed.
Everton supposedly employed the agency to act as intermediary to sign the player – the only international (ie, non-British) player signed for a fee in this time period was Vitalii Mykolenko – and after declining to pay the invoice, Hughes says the club proposed a reduced settlement that also went unpaid.
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Having had no response from the club, the agency have now turned to the Premier League to try and force the issue.
Hughes's contention has been rubbished, however, by The Bobble, the source at A View from the Bullens who has first-hand knowledge of how agents work in football.
He insists that, "every agent listed on the deal sheet has been paid in full," and that if Everton were remiss in paying dues to an agent, it would be the Football Association not the Premier League who would take up the matter.
Original Source: Daily Mail
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3 Posted 20/10/2023 at 08:00:39
4 Posted 20/10/2023 at 11:52:30
5 Posted 20/10/2023 at 12:40:44
If we did stiff an agent/agency, surely we should be applauded by the football world?
6 Posted 20/10/2023 at 14:19:52
Life was so much simpler in Black and White. Agents acting as deal brokers for 6- and 7-figure fees owed by the club seems to be a 21st Century curse.
7 Posted 20/10/2023 at 17:08:41
Just need to throw in a Tory politician now for the scumbag jackpot!!!
8 Posted 20/10/2023 at 18:15:36
9 Posted 21/10/2023 at 02:31:58
10 Posted 21/10/2023 at 08:15:59
Get a club lawyer to sue them every time they write such rubbish, and keep doing it until they get the message.
11 Posted 26/10/2023 at 23:48:47
12 Posted 30/10/2023 at 22:06:53
I couldn't agree more, between them and Sky, they have slowly ruined the game with ridiculous transfer fees and wages of course they are always acting in the players' interests?
A pig has just flown over my neighbour's roof!
13 Posted 09/11/2023 at 17:51:45
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1 Posted 20/10/2023 at 07:52:55
Legalities not withstanding, if we can stiff even one of the snakes, well tough titty.