Of the clubs now in League 1, we were the second highest payers of fees to agents etc, for the year 1st Feb 2018 - 31st Jan 2019. Total just over £428,500. A distant second to Sunderland who paid just under £2.9 million. I guess it's unlikely that things will change, and perhaps I'm showing my ignorance, but I don't fully understand or accept why clubs have to pay agents. I think players alone should pay them, just as we would pay a solicitor to undertake conveyancing on a house purchase etc. Would that start and contain the fees paid? The figures across the league are interesting, the Premier League is eye-watering. £260.6m: paid by Premier League clubs to agents in 2018-19, which doesn't include sums paid by players to agents. £260.6m: the wages for all employees, not just players, at all 24 League Two clubs combined. For four years. (from @sportingintel)
That's very unlike us actually. In recent years we've always been very near the bottom of that table,not second from top. Perhaps the figures for the Championship are much higher though
