FA Cup Semi Final Everton V Man Utd
I'm looking forward to watching the game on TV later and hope that it's a good game. The price of tickets for any game now is exorbitant so a lot of people including myself are now just armchair viewers.
I was reading an article in the Daily Mirror today headed "WHO PAID WHAT TO AGENTS"
The FA is required under FIFA rules to submit details for all the Football Clubs of the net total paid to Agents/ intermediaries. Man Utd were the highest payers at £10,023,318. 00 and Everton coughed up the lowest amount of £471,400.00. It was pointed out that Man Utd did not actually sign any players in this period.
David De Gea and agent Jorge Mendes appeared on the FA document. Interestingly the FA document listed Mendes and De Gea on September 11th ---- the day the Old Trafford club announced that the player had signed a new contract with them, days after the proposed move to Real Madrid collapsed.
The money nowadays is called fees but in my old days we just called it a bung. At least Cameron can be pleased with all that tax coming in under the old fashioned PAYE system.
