Why shouldn't SBW's agent take some of the responsibility.?

Question

yeah it falls back onto Sonny's decision but the agent is suppose to be there for guidance and to let him know what he's done is illegal. And I also think Mundine should keep his nose out of it, he's nothing but a trouble maker and i'm glad he's out of the NRL

Answer 1

it's about tiem Union started to "poach" some league players.  Just look what happen in the 1980's & 90's.  

As Grizz Wylie said to John Gallgher back in 1990 after he signed with Leeds "You're fuc%ing joking"

Or as he sadi to Grame Low, "Would it help you if I put 'For Sale" signes on the players?"

Answer 2

Because he is a grub. SBW has been poorly advised and poorly managed.

Answer 3

But who is SBW's agent? Nasser has come out publicly to state he is not his agent but only a friend. Also as Nasser is not NRL accredited, he can't represent any players.

SBW's manager may be in the same position as the Bulldogs, knowing nothing.

Answer 4

As it stands at the moment a player must appoint an accredited NRL agent ONLY to deal with an NRL club.

He can have anyone as an agent at any other point in time to deal with persoanal sponsorship, advice etc. For most its just easier to retain one agent for all their services.

With Williams under contract there is no reason Nassar could not act as his agent, he would not admit to doing so because that would leave him open to legal action by self admission. If he continues saying they were friends with no payment for Nassars advice it will be very hard for the Bulldogs or the NRL to prove otherwise.

The Williams/Nassar line seems to be that Williams was not under any agents representations since Williams left Orr's company early this year and that any advice/discussions between Williams/Nassar were between friends and not as client/agent.

What worries me more is no one seems to be considering that Williams may have been under some emotional or mental stress and that he has "fled" because as a young man (he is ony 22) he is not willing to continue under the Sydney media spotlight any longer.

There have been plenty of comments from other players and those with league saying he had not appeared "himself" in recent weeks. Obviously those in the Bulldogs and NRL decided it was a far better story to blame Williams that consider the sport has impacted mentally on yet another rising star of their game.

Answer 5

Gavin Orr managed Sonny Bill Williams until February this year, when Khoder Nasser took over as the star back-rower’s representative.Orr revealed it was Williams himself who pushed for a five-year deal with the Bulldogs, and that Nasser would not receive a slice of Williams’s playing contract unless he signed a new deal.

Nasser – who has been the target of scathing criticism over his handling of Williams – said yesterday that he was only a friend of Williams, and not his manager.But Orr understood Nasser had indeed taken over managerial responsibilities for Williams.

“That’s what was put to me, that Khoder was taking over managerial rights for Sonny for further negotiations,” he told 2GB’s Ray Hadley today.

Williams currently has four years left on a five-year, $400,000-a-season deal – a deal he has criticised repeatedly this year.

However, Orr – who negotiated the player’s current contract – revealed the five-year duration was Williams’s idea, with the Bulldogs initially wanting to sign Williams for three seasons.

“We actually advised him to sign for three years, but I think Sonny was concerned about the situation with his leg at the time, and in discussions between the club and himself led to a five-year agreement, that’s the one that Sonny wanted to choose,” Orr said.

“I suppose if it had to come to court, that would come out – that Sonny requested the five years.”

Despite no longer representing Williams, Orr still receives a commission as part of the player’s deal.

That means Khoder Nasser would not make a cent out of Williams’s current $400,000-a-year deal.

But – if he is still managing Williams – Nasser will profit significantly out of a lucrative new French rugby union contract.

Orr he was disappointed with Williams’s exit, saying it clearly could have been handled better.

“I’m just a little disappointed that he’s gone, but there’s probably a lot of other reasons why he’s done that,” he said.

“Maybe what he should have done is spoken to the club and retired from rugby league first, and then sought to go overseas and find a club where he wants to play.”