Ever wondered how a transfer is done on deadline day? (Stones)

Wonder why a man who lives in London was at a hotel at Manchester airport? Cracking bit of luck for him that he happened to be there and the club that wanted to speak to him was just up the road in Wigan.

 

The harder you work the luckier you get.

 

That'll be why I have no luck at all.

 

Good read that.

He seems like a bit of a nob, though.

 

But no mention of the touting, backstabbing, secret press briefings, and cajoling

that gets done so they can maximise the commission without giving too much of a monkeys cuss whats is best for the player in the long run.

 

He said that he met up with the woman who was dealing with Stones. I guess that they have their more senior agents based around the country on deadline day ready to meet up.

Good read though

 

I got the feeling that he was covering all of the agencies players in the North at the time. It sounds like he was working on deals for Blackpool and Blackburn too - as well as the Stones move. They probably plan it to have people all over the country just in case.

 

His agent is the daughter of the current Huddersfield caretaker manager...

 

What is interesting to me is that a young kid can choose which club he wanted to go to regardless of the offer.

I guess he could have still chosen Everton even if Wigan had bid a higher fee. He might well have done in fact.

Player power gone mad, in the old days, even top players were told "You've been sold to XXXXX club, pack your bags."

 

We accepted both bids. He couldn't have gone to Everton if we hadn't accepted their bid.

 

True, but that's not to say both bids were identical.

 

There's no reason we would have accepted Everton's bid if it didn't match Wigan's. We'd be fools if we did.

 

Could have done quite easily. Deals could have been fairly similar, Wigan's slightly better, maybe would have loaned him back. Agent & player says we are going to Everton, end of. We cave in, let's face it stranger things have happened. Fans will continue to speculate, as the club never put the record straight on transfers. Rod for their own back.

 

Nar. The offer from everton would have no worse than Wigans.

That would be crazy. Stones seemed thankful and respectful of wigan so i think he would have been happy to go there.

 

You are guessing Hemsie. You can't be sure, because the club has not clarified the matter. Even if they did, I am not sure you can believe them. They forget things apparently, or tell lies, as someone on here pointed out the other day.

 

Re: But no mention of the touting, backstabbing, secret press briefings, and cajolin

What's noticeable is that the option of the player not wanting to join either club and instead wanting stay with us didn't actually seem an option that was considered at all.

Now I wonder if that is:

A) Because young Mr Stones was in fact keen to bin us off at this first opportunity so the agent knew he'd go for one or the other, which would surprise me given what I've seen/heard of him, or
B) Because the parasitic agent ensured through his no doubt insidious advice to the lad that he'd grudgingly accept one of the offers on the basis of this being best for him and the club - thus ensuring at least some commission on what was by his own admission a quiet day for their agency?

 

The player was under contract, so we would have, most likely, rejected a lesser offer. He could only speak to clubs that BFC had said he could speak to having had an offer accepted

 

Re: But no mention of the touting, backstabbing, secret press briefings, and cajolin

You are in a job paying £x and you get two headhunters approaching you offering £10x plus benefits that your current employer cannot match. Do you stay where you are or jump ship to the best offer (assuming that you have done due diligence on the companies involved)...

 

I imagine what the article doesn't say is that the agent called someone at Everton to advise how much we'd accepted for Stones so they knew the asking price. If we had rejected the Everton bid Stones might not even have known about it at the time if speaking to Wigan.