Newcastle United hailed by pundit after £7.7m confirmed news – ‘Haaland is the one’
Noel Whelan has heaped praise on Newcastle United for keeping their agent fees down last year.
Speaking exclusively to Football Insider, the ex-Premier League striker used Erling Haaland as an example of how agent fees can get out of hand.
As per The Athletic (2 April), the Magpies spent just £7.7million on agent fees from 2 February 2021 to 31 January 2022.
That figure represents the fifth lowest spend in the Premier League, with only Brighton, Burnley, Southampton and Brentford behind them.
Newcastle spend in the region of £100million on transfers in the January window, with Kieran Trippier, Chris Wood, Bruno Guimaraes, Dan Burn and Matt Targett coming in.
When asked how impressive it was the club had managed to keep agent fees down, Whelan told Football Insider‘s Russell Edge:
“Haaland is one you look at right now. He has a £68million release clause but the agent fees mean the deal is at least double that.
“When you are buying a player you have agent there and you have to make sure you’re dealing with them right. You cannot throw money away on agent fees just to get a player through the door.
“You have to make sure that, the signing fee and the wages are within your structure. You have to do it right. It is business. It has to be good for everybody.
“Hats off to Newcastle for getting players with agents that aren’t going to hold them to ransom.”
Borussia Dortmund’s Haaland has a £68million release clause that becomes active this summer.
However, the Daily Mail claimed (16 March) that agent fees and signing on bonuses could take the total cost of the transfer beyond £100m.
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