Show notes: Podcast 360

Sound of Football Podcast 360 - Agents and super agents

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Do agents have too much influence in football? With the January window open we look at another month of inflated salaries and transfer fees. Often seen as enemies of managers — distracting their key players and stimulating unrest in the dressing room — agents appear to enjoy a symbiotic relationship with a content hungry media.

With Graham Sibley, Jan Bilton and Terry Duffelen.

Duration: 38.36 | Filesize: 44.4MB (MP3)

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Links

• Reuters: Soccer exchange: How a super-agent and a Chinese billionaire planned to trade in players
• Guardian: ‘The pressure is permanent’: a football agent on January’s transfer window
• BBC: Aaron Ramsey: Arsenal midfielder in talks with Bayern, Inter, Juventus, PSG & Real Madrid

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