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.
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.