Kieran Maguire: Liverpool getting ‘great value for money’ as £167m outlay confirmed
Liverpool are content with the amount they and their Premier League peers pay to agents.
That is the view of finance guru Kieran Maguire, speaking exclusively to Football Insider about the level of spending on intermediaries in the English top flight.
FIFA published their annual review of agent spending last Thursday (15 December).
It was revealed therein that Premier League clubs paid £167million to middlemen in 2022, a figure which represents a near-return to pre-pandemic levels.
English clubs spent almost three times more than their nearest challengers in Italy.
Liverpool have spent big on the likes of Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez this year, while Diogo Jota, Joe Gomez, James Milner, and Mohamed Salah have all signed new deals.
Maguire claims that the Merseysiders will be happy to have spent big to facilitate these deals.
“Whilst clubs paid a lot to agents in 2022, it did allow Premier League teams to recruit some of the biggest stars in world football,” he told Football Insider’s Adam Williams.
“It also prevented stars from leaving in terms of contract renewals. Liverpool have been one of the main beneficiaries of this.
“It may sound like a lot of money but the Premier League is a £5bn-a-year industry and that figure is likely to increase.
“Therefore, agents provide, as far as clubs are concerned, a necessary role in recruitment and retention.
“If they didn’t think it was worthwhile or represented great value for money, they wouldn’t pay the fees.“
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