CCFC Agent fees Vs Transfer fees

By Carl Curtis

Cardiff City spent £2,828,133 on agent fees between October 2014 and September 2015.

I think that is a ludicrous amount of money when you consider how relatively little we have spent on transfer fees in the same period.

Below is the list of players I can recall we have signed during the time frame that relate to the agent fees costs.

Sammy Ameobi – Loan
Gabriel Tamas – Unattached
Semi Ajayi – Free
Idriss Saadi – Undisclosed
Marco Weymans – Nominal
Jordan Blaise – Free

Scott Malone – £100k
Alex Revell – £175k
Lee Peltier – £100k
Stuart O’Keefe – Undisclosed
Eoin Doyle – £750k
Matthew Kennedy – Undisclosed
Conor McAleny – Loan
Just adding up the known transfer fees above takes our spending to just over £1.1m and with the 3 undisclosed and the 1 nominal I would quite confidently argue that we have paid somewhere in the region of £1.5m for all the players that have cost us a transfer fee.

So to spend more than £2.8m on agents fees for players that approximately total £1.5m in transfer fees is absurd no matter what side of the debate you find yourself.

Shocking fees to spend for a club and owner that has publicly slammed the fees that agents have made from this club in previous seasons.