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da 888： [ad_pod ]This article is part of Football FanCast’s Pundit View series, which provides opinion and analysis on recent quotes from journalists, pundits, players and managers…Former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan has called on the Premier League to sanction agents who behave in the same way as Danijel Arnautovic, the representative of Marko Arnautovic, per talkSPORT.
What’s he said?
The West Ham striker completed a move to Chinese club Shanghai SIPG on Monday.
The move came about, per Football FanCast sources, after Arnautovic requested that a bid for him be accepted last week, while he also handed in a transfer request in January.
And Jordan, who was chairman at Palace between 2000 and 2010, believes that agents cannot have such a say in the futures of their clients.
He said: “I don’t understand what the ruckus is about. Everybody knew he was trouble when they signed him, so why are they surprised they got trouble as a result of him? What I don’t like, what I believe is, when someone represents you and then acts in the way his brother does, I think there should be sanctions on these sorts of people.
“Players are signed to a contract which says, if they do anything to bring the club into disrepute, they do anything to criticise the club, they get sanctions against them; fined a week’s wages, fined a month’s wages.
“Agents, on the flip side of it, who are clearly speaking for their player, and clearly being divisive and trying to create a temperature, get away with it scot-free.
“If an agent brings division between a club and a player, then they should be sanctioned for it.â€
Wild west
This should have been happening a long time ago.
Parish is absolutely right to suggest that Danijel has got into his sibling’s ear; sources at the club have confirmed that the club took a “poor deal†from Shanghai simply to rid themselves of the striker.
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That is unusual but it speaks to the impact the agent has had on Arnautovic’s future and his standing at the club; other sources have said that figures within the club simply did not trust Danijel.
And now we reach the end game, with West Ham selling off one of their most productive forwards with no replacement lined up.
For too long agents have been able to simply hawk their wares to any club that will listen; a crackdown can’t come soon enough.