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June 2024

  • Gareth Southgate’s former agent, Terry Byrne, arm in arm with Pelé

    Gareth Southgate’s former agent wins payout from FA over players’ contract

    Terry Byrne took legal action against the FA after it cancelled his deal to represent England players

April 2024

  • The agent Saif Alrubie at Southwark crown court last week

    Football agent cleared of sending intimidating email to former Chelsea director

    A top football agent has been acquitted of sending an intimidating email message to former Chelsea director of football Marina Granovskaia
  • Saif Alrubie arrives at Southwark crown court on Tuesday

    Agent calls former Chelsea director of football Granovskaia ‘a liar’ in court

    A top football agent has accused a former Chelsea FC executive of repeatedly lying about a transfer fee in order for the Premier League club to avoid paying him a commission
    • Threatening ally of Roman Abramovich would be ‘a suicide mission’, agent tells court

    • Kia Joorabchian ‘accosted’ by debt collectors working for agent Saif Alrubie, court told

    • Chelsea top of Premier League table … for record £75m spend on agents

February 2024

  • Leeds's John Charles with the Italian agent Gigi Peronace, who set up his move to Juventus in 1957.

    Time for a salary cap to keep leagues competitive and reduce agents’ influence

    Jason Stockwood
    Cap would remove conflicts of interest and keep more money within the game

December 2023

  • Cristiano Ronaldo of Al-Nassr in action during the Saudi Pro League match between Al-Nassr and Al-Riyadh on 8 December

    Saudi spree helps lift football agent payments to record £700m in one year

    A thriving men’s transfer market has led to clubs spending a record $888m (£700m) on fees for intermediaries in 2023 while women’s football paid more than $1m for the first time

November 2023

  • The Fifa logo on the organisation's headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.

    Football agents celebrate FA tribunal victory in fight against Fifa regulations

    Fifa has been dealt a blow in its bid to control the industry by capping fees for agents and restricting the frequency of payments they receive

April 2023

  • Aidy Ward

    Football agent Aidy Ward banned for 20 months over underage player approach

    The leading agent Aidy Ward and his company Colossal Sports Management have been banned for 20 months by the Football Association

October 2022

  • Rui Pinto, the man behind Football Leaks, pictured at the start of his trial in 2020

    Lines between hero and villain are blurred in new Football Leaks film

    Documentary offers a fresh view of the hacker whose claims sent shockwaves through the game

September 2022

  • Darwin Núñez with a Liverpool badge

    Another profitable window for Jorge Mendes, the ‘gatekeeper’ of Portugal

    Darwin Núñez’s £85m move from Benfica to Liverpool led the way in deals involving Portugal’s big three clubs and the agent

May 2022

  • Mino Raiola

    Mino Raiola: the gamechanger who was both hated and loved in football

    The super-agent died on Saturday aged 54, leaving an unforgettable legacy on football’s transfer market

April 2022

  • Mino Raiola, pictured with one of his clients, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, at the 2018 World Cup

    Mino Raiola tweets that he is alive after reports of football agent’s death

    Mino Raiola, the agent of players including Paul Pogba and Erling Haaland, has tweeted to say he is alive in response to multiple reports that he had died

January 2022

  • Jorge Mendes after being named agent of the year at the 2019 Dubai Globe Soccer Awards, alongside his client Cristiano Ronaldo.

    Fifa urged to tighten rules on money super-agents make from transfers

    Fifa should tighten its proposed rules on intermediaries to limit the money made by super-agents, the influential Council of Europe will be told

March 2021

  • Chelsea were the Premier League’s biggest spenders on agents’ fees across a period during which they signed Kai Havertz (left) and Timo Werner.

    Premier League clubs' spending on agents' fees rises to £272m amid Covid

    Chelsea were the biggest Premier League spenders on agents’ fees in the 12 months to the start of February 2021, data released by the FA shows

December 2020

  • Michael Kallback

    From orphan to football agent: the remarkable journey of Michael Kallbäck

    The football agent on how his daughter’s birth inspired him to work in the women’s game, and the search for his birth mother

November 2020

  • The Fifa logo at its headquarters in Zurich

    Fifa takes aim at super-agent influence with regulations and fee restriction

    Fifa set to diminish the influence of so-called super-agents with regulations that limit the ability of individuals to represent more than one party in a transfer

October 2020

  • Gareth Bale

    Stellar aims for the stars with $3bn of footballer contracts after ICM takeover

    Stellar Group, the London-based sports agency that represents more than 800 athletes, including Gareth Bale, has been taken over by the US giant ICM partners

September 2020

  • 'Here we go': inside the transfer window with Fabrizio Romano – video

    The Italian football journalist shares his behind-the-scenes insight, as well as the challenges that Covid-19 have presented to closing a deal

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