LONDON: Liverpool have narrowly failed to knock Chelsea off top spot this year in the agents’ commission league table writes KEIR RADNEDGE.
Brendan Rodgers’s heavy summer spending resulted in the Anfield club declaring £14.3m paid to agents for their work in facilitating transfer deals between October 1 last year and September 30 this year.
However Jose Mourinho’s Premier League leaders spent £16.7m, following a table-topping £13.7m the previous year.
Liverpool’s expenditure of an additional £5m contrasts starkly with the dip in the club’s form this season after heavy spending on new defenders, midfielders and forwards.
Payments this past year to agents by Premier clubs totalled £115m compared with £96.5m last year.
Paid by clubs on behalf of players between October 1, 2013, and September 30, 2014:
Arsenal – £4,293,407
Aston Villa – £2,577,866
Burnley – £711,024
Chelsea – £16,771,328
Crystal Palace – £2,200,797
Everton – £5,753,269
Hull City – £2,459,010
Leicester City – £1,608,418
Liverpool – £14,308,444
Manchester City – £12,811,946
Manchester United – £7,975,556
Newcastle United – £3,876,250
Queens Park Rangers – £3,242,668
Southampton – £2,766,444
Stoke City – £3,986,850
Sunderland – £5,276,674
Swansea City – £3,784,090
Tottenham Hotspur – £10,983,011
West Bromwich Albion – £3,493,745
West Ham United – £6,380,339
Total – £115,261,136
The Premier League agreed, in June 2008, that from season 2009/10 onwards each club would publish, on November 30 each season, the total amount paid annually to authorised agents.
Payments made by each Premier League club between October 1, 2012, and September 30, 2013:
Arsenal – £5,485,961
Aston Villa – £3,358,628
Cardiff City – £2,225,582
Chelsea – £13,721,721
Crystal Palace – £869,531
Everton – £3,225,159
Fulham – £3,790,115
Hull City – £1,825,718
Liverpool – £9,400,973
Manchester City – £11,179,817
Manchester United – £4,317,690
Newcastle United – £7,294,018
Norwich City – £2,308,987
Southampton – £2,184,412
Stoke City – £3,191,808
Sunderland – £4,640,227
Swansea City – £1,484,878
Tottenham Hotspur – £9,787,676
West Bromwich Albion – £2,211,054
West Ham United – £4,169,134
Total – £96,673,089
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