Agent fee paid by player?

According to FIFa rules an agent can only be paid by either the club or the player.

Therefore there must be times when the players agent is working for the player (not the club) and the club should not pay a fee in this case.

I have not seen this in the game but it must happen IRL

But why would you be informed of any payments the player makes to their agent?

This is an old thread but here is a link to the fa webpage http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/RulesandRegulations/Agents/~/media/Files/PDF/TheFA/2822FAAgentClub.ashx

Quote" Agents acting for Players must only be paid by the Player. Clubs may only discharge the Player’s obligation to pay the Agent via a deduction from the

Player’s salary. Such payments must only be paid in accordance with the terms and sums that are agreed

in the Player/Agent contract; (G.4, G.5 & G.6)"

All Agents in the game are acting for the players

Nice find.

At the moment you can bump up the agents fee. This is the same as clubs used to do to get transfers though. eg George Graham i believe and he got a band for it.

This is an old thread but here is a link to the fa webpage http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/RulesandRegulations/Agents/~/media/Files/PDF/TheFA/2822FAAgentClub.ashx

Quote" Agents acting for Players must only be paid by the Player. Clubs may only discharge the Player’s obligation to pay the Agent via a deduction from the

Player’s salary. Such payments must only be paid in accordance with the terms and sums that are agreed

in the Player/Agent contract; (G.4, G.5 & G.6)"

All Agents in the game are acting for the players

While I think you've still got something of a valid point, section G5 of http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/RulesandRegulations/~/media/Files/PDF/TheFA/Agents%20regulations%202009/FA%20Football%20Agents%20Regulations%20July%202009.ashx/FA%20Football%20Agents%20Regulations%20July%202009.PDF might put a spanner in the works for your argument.

Where an Authorised Agent undertakes Agency Activity for a Player, the Player may discharge his obligations to pay the Authorised Agent as specified in the Representation Contract between them in one, or more, of the following ways only:

a. The Player may pay the Authorised Agent directly; and/or

b. The Player may request in writing, and the Player’s Club may agree, that the Club makes a genuine deduction in periodic instalments from his net salary in favour of the Authorised Agent, so that the sums are deducted and paid in discharge of the Player’s obligation to the Authorised Agent contained in the relevant Representation Contract; and/or

c. The Player may request, and the Player’s Club may agree, that the Club discharges the Player’s liability towards his Authorised Agent, as contained in the relevant Representation Contract, on the Player’s behalf as a taxable benefit, provided always that:

i. The Player and the Club fulfil the relevant requirements of tax law in relation to such payment(s); and

ii. The payments are made through The Association in accordance with Regulation G10.

SI may argue that the agent fee falls under part c, or arguably even part b of that (though b suggests to me that the club would be paying the agent over an extended period of time rather than a single lump sum), as those do allow for the club to pay the agent in exchange for the player getting a reduction in his contract. The game doesn't make anything about agent fees too clear, though, and it just looks like they've got someone from injurylawyers4u or some other shady company like that who always claim that you pay nothing because all costs are received from the other side, with you (the club) being 'the other side' in this instance