Former Arsenal player Ian Wright believes football agents are destroying the game with their greed - EPL News
Former Arsenal player Ian Wright has criticised football agents saying that they are damaging the game with their greed.
Wright is considered a legend at Arsenal. He scored 128 goals in 221 appearances for the club.
He slammed the agents as "vultures" and hastened to add that "vultures feed of dead corpse but the football agents feed off of living footballers".
The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429 striker said, “They prey on the young, up and coming players who are the future of the game in this country and they stalk established players, even international stars, and offer them all sorts of bribes and inducements to switch over
to them. But these agents have absolutely no conscience and are simply putting making money ahead of building and prolonging players' careers. It's a disgrace, I've heard what they do and it stinks".
Once the player signs for these agents, agent’s first aim is get their investment back and the player has no choice but to follow instructions. .
Wright said , "Earning back their 'investment' will become their priority NOT the best interests of that young lad's career. So you (player) will then be expected to do whatever these characters say. For instance if a move comes up where they can earn a
big fee they will push to do that, even if it's best for the kid to stay put".
The English FA should look into the activities of these football agents and rules should be in placed so that the exploitation of young players should be minimised, maintained the veteran footballer.
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