Town spent £849,657 on agents’ fees between February 1st 2022 and January 31st this year, up on the £779,739 paid out during the previous 12 months.

Only tomorrow’s opponents Derby County, £1,064,645, paid out more among the other League One clubs.

Town's total is higher than seven current Championship sides over the period, Blackburn, Blackpool, Luton, Millwall, Reading, Rotherham and Sunderland.

As well as new permanent and loan signings, the £849,657 includes the fees relating to new contracts over the course of the year for the likes of Wes Burns, Luke Woolfenden, Kayden Jackson, Cameron Humphreys, Elkan Baggott, Corrie Ndaba and skipper Sam Morsy, whose new terms we understand didn’t extend the length of his existing deal. The full report can be found here.

The FA has been required to publish clubs' spending on intermediaries by FIFA regulations since April 2015.

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SheffordBlue added 19:32 - Mar 31 Most of Derby's related to historical debts to agents - https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2023/03/derby-county-update-intermediary-fees
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Marcus added 19:49 - Mar 31 I'm in the wrong profession!
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Gipeswic added 19:56 - Mar 31 28 players = average fee of £30,345 which appears reasonable?
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TalkingBlues added 20:56 - Mar 31 Stand out here has to be Plymouth, basically spent 10x less and sit top of the table, remarkably well done.
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Kropotkin123 added 21:09 - Mar 31 Gipeswic: I imagine the majority of it will come from the "big money transfers" like Broadhead or Davis. The agents will likely have set fees for contract extensions and increases that are considerably less, as it is a lot less work. Whereas they are likely charging a % or minimum fee for transfers over their minimum fee.
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poringlandblue added 00:06 - Apr 1 Sorry but shouldn't the players be paying whatever their agents are getting out of their pockets?
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Europablue added 07:21 - Apr 1 poringlandblue, I agree in principle, but I at least this way the fees are transparent.
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ElephantintheRoom added 08:34 - Apr 1 That's a lot of tasteless and unnecessary black shirts to sell to cover that. I wonder if that includes the VAT - or has been deflated a little to keep it under a million. Well done Plymouth and Bolton - and the other clubs living within their means.
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Bazza8564 added 08:56 - Apr 1 We've bought 3 players in over £1m, agents fees are always going to be high. Transfer fees for those, players in my opinion, were relatively low considering the quality, ive got no issue with it. Its the price of doing business when you buy quality. And if you simply borrow most of your players, you will get it cheaper, and only a year of success with no underlying strength.

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Nomore4 added 10:14 - Apr 1 Elephant in the room. Prefers the club to go back to how we used to be. All deals coming out of a piggy bank full of lose change.
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Nomore4 added 10:17 - Apr 1 Elephant in the room. Unless your happy with Johnathan Douglass, Kevin Bru type players. Agent fees are higher for quality players.
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d77sgw added 11:00 - Apr 1 To be fair to Elephant, a lot of clubs there (Plymouth, Shrewsbury, even Portsmouth) are doing pretty well having spent a lot less, so you can pick up decent players on the cheap (and let's face it for every Kevin Bru, there was a Tyrone Mings, Kieffer Moore, or more recently a Massimo Luongo - you don't HAVE to spend a fortune). I think the point is that we've invested largely in players whose value should appreciate, so the difference is that this money is arguably an investment. And what the hell have Fleetwood spent £500k+ on!??!

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TimmyH added 11:02 - Apr 1 Blimey! Fleetwood over 500k...they need to sort that out, agents are parasites.
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Nomore4 added 13:07 - Apr 1 d77. To bring in a quality player on a free ie Massimo. Costs huge agent fees. Shrews, Plymouth, Pompey haven't brought in any quality that I can see. Hence low costs.
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SickParrot added 17:38 - Apr 1 I find it hard to accept that a league 1 club has paid £850000 to agents in 12 months. Yes, we have signed some really good players but what must the notional hourly rate be for these agents. Another thing that bugs me is that the agent can act for both the player and the club, claim two separate fees and the club pays both. It's just not right that agents are taking millions out of the game when some clubs can't make enough money to keep going.

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