Leonson was good but no way he in the region of Yorke. Man United and Chelsea was interested in me one time too, but my agent get greedy and I suck salt . How come Aston Villa made sure they got Yorke and they really came to look at someone else? I does wonder about men on this forum sometimes, a man post a video of LL scoring aginst Barbados yes and using that as argument.
he score against Crystal Palace and we use that to compare him to Yorke who buss up the net against all them big clubs in Europe. The agent mess up one transfer, two transfers, you will retain him to mess up the third one? I am a big fane of leonson Lewis, but we getting carried away.
If a team comes and offers a $250,000 contract... the agent sees 3-5% of that, roughly $15,000 max on that contract. Let's say the contract is for 5 yrs...for the incumbent club to keep the player they'd have to match or beat that price... obligating them to pay the player $50,000 per year for the duration of the contract. Now if they're in collusion with the agent they can give him $30k, and have him sign the player for $200,000... or $40k per year. The total they'd pay on that contract is $200k + $30k= $230,000, a savings of $20,000.
The player trusts his agent and so leaves all the negotiations to him. He has no idea what was being offered by the competing club (20 yrs ago transfer fees and such was hardly ever reported in the papers, let alone for smaller name players)...all of that info went thru the agent. Especially if you have a young naive caribbean yute dealing with these sharks in Europe. So check the figures... club re-signs the player for $200K... the agent gets his typical 3-5% commission... PLUS the $30k the club gave him. So whereas on the open market he could get a bigger contract for the player, but by colluding with the club instead of $15,000 commission, he gets $40,000 in commission and kickback.
In case you don't know it, the world is rife with crooked agents (just google the name Tank Black for starters). So before you start laughing and dismissing the talk as exaggeration, think ah little bit about what it is you read. Then again, I wasn't there and only regurgitating what Leonsen Lewis himself said. For all we know he could be lying, right?