Town have announced that they made payments of £261,346.50 to agents during the period October 1st 2014 to September 30th 2015.

An FA rule requires that payments made to licensed agents, now formally known as 'registered intermediaries', must be published on clubs’ websites before the end of November. In the year to September 30th 2014, the Blues made payments of £360,618.58.

Only three current Championship sides - Bristol City, Preston and Rotherham - paid out less over the last year.

Sky Bet Championship
Birmingham City - £443,570
Blackburn Rovers - £1,254,610
Bolton Wanderers -£964,869
Brentford - £600,636
Brighton & Hove Albion - £912,421
Bristol City - £231,316
Burnley - £1,363,831
Cardiff City - £2,828,133
Charlton Athletic - £656,759
Derby County - £1,102,071
Fulham - £2,735,336
Huddersfield Town - £429,343
Hull City- £1,813,919
Ipswich Town - £261,347
Leeds United - £786,897
Middlesbrough - £850,285
MK Dons - £672,371
Nottingham Forest - £1,440,730
Preston North End - £194,961
QPR - £2,361,742
Reading - £2,391,666
Rotherham United - £185,430
Sheffield Wednesday - £792,203
Wolverhampton Wanderers - £849,600
Total - £26,124,044

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KBsSocks added 21:53 - Nov 30 Watford last year: £355,750 ITFC last year: £360,619 It's goals that wins games ...
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KBsSocks added 21:56 - Nov 30 Oh, and if we spent 94 grand more, we'd still be less than Huddersfield, next place above us this year (AND less than Watford last year) :-)
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southnorfolkblue added 22:28 - Nov 30 In any other line of business the Agent gets paid by their Principal ie in this context the player. Why should football be any different? After all the players can hardly plead poverty...
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BrettenhamBlue added 23:54 - Nov 30 Bolton pay nearly 1 Million on agents fees and can't pay their players. Sums it up really.
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vanmunt added 10:30 - Dec 1 Might be a pig headed arse at times but how he has built a team to compete for pennies is admirable.. just makes those wasted years and finances under the dark lord and Jewell even more unbearable.
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alfromcol added 12:43 - Dec 1 southnorfolkblue Not strictly correct. Agents as in Recruitment Agents, get paid by the organisation they are recruiting the individual for. And the fee usually amounts to several months salary, which in the case of a footballer is a considerable amount of money!
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turbothesailor added 13:07 - Dec 1 Bolton... Cannot afford to even pay there players yet nearly £1 mil was paid to agents... It's sad to see...
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TimmyH added 16:43 - Dec 1 unbelievable! - jas0999 gets 15 down votes for his comment (which I was going to type something similar). Just goes to show once we start winning a few games then everything is rosy.
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Seasider added 17:25 - Dec 1 Agree to a point with JAS and TimmyH as we are down with the small fry when it comes to agents fees. Presume the more expensive(and often better)player you buy,the more it is going to cost in agents fees(see Hull and Burnley above) However cant afford these kind of fees and presume that if we make just one marquee signing in the Jan window then would have to pay a larger fee than in past. I hope however that because of said fee Mr Evans doesn't decide not to proceed,as I feel that this could boost our chances of going up. Didn't do it last year,and struggled in second half of season compared to before Christmas. I know we have a larger and stronger squad now but wonder if it is good enough to compete with the 'big boys'in this division. I used to think ITFC was one of the bigger clubs in this league years ago;but if agents fees are anything to go by Town are now amongst the minnows.

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rickw added 09:42 - Dec 2 I don't think clubs should pay agents at all. Players need agents to arrange all their deals and should get a cut of what the player gets, agents who demand millions for their player to sign for your club just seems like extortion to me
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