Hmmm! Like Niasse’s agent who, allegedly according to both Everton and Palace, asked for an extra payment of ca. 400k for himself after the deal had been agreed by all parties. And that was at the last minute. Yes, much better to give in to last minute blackmail...

Yes that's the answer and pave the way for every other agent to play the same game, it's more than an egotistical thing. You may have a good knowledge of many players but you have a lot to learn about the transfer business

Niasse's price has gone up 1-2 million sonce last winter, so from where I see things, 400k more to the agent would have been good business.

Not all agents are like that. But if you really want a player, you have to deal with some of those sometimes.
I'm telling you, Mino Raiola is much more demanding and yet every big club still wants his players.

It is what it is. Maybe when FIFA and UEFA will impose some rules, these practices of these managers will stop. Until then, you have to deal with them.

My point wasthat simply ditching a deal for Noasse, who would have been a better finisher than anything Palace had in the last 6 months, just because the agent was greedy, was to much. It wasn't an avoidance of setting a precedence, it was a show of power on behalf of Palace's decision making board.

Like Spain's President fired Lopetegui because he signed for Real Madrid without telling him. It's a message like: "I'm bigger than you!". But, in my experience, good players (or their family/ managers) are childish and hard headed and you have to know to close your eyes and look the other way sometimes. Sure, discipline is one thing, I'm 100% for it, but this wasn't a case of indiscipline by the player in case, it was just the greed of a manager. And, frankly, 400k for a club like Pallace, when the transfer fee was 8 million, was nothing.

I have read many books of my compatriot Mircea Lucescu, a very intelligent man, speaks 6-7 languages and I've watched him build Shakhtar from an unknown club in the '90s to an Europa League winner in 2009. And in his interviews or books he talks about accepting the moods of Brazilian players, especially as he was bringing them really young(aged 19-20). At one point he subbed Douglas Costa (now of Juventus, formerly of Bayern Munich) and the kid was very pissed, he yelled and cursed at the manager. Lucescu didn't expel him from the team like many would have and simply had a talk with him after the match, when things cooled down. But he wasn't a permissive manager. He didn't let players touch him and they never dated shower him with champaign. But he built a strong team with Willian, Douglas Costa, Fernandinho, Alex Teixeira, Mkhitaryan, all brought in young and trained. If the Ukrainean war hadn't ravaged the country, Shakhtar would have still been a powerhouse.

Not all agents are like that. But if you really want a player, you have to deal with some of those sometimes.
I'm telling you, Mino Raiola is much more demanding and yet every big club still wants his players.

It is what it is. Maybe when FIFA and UEFA will impose some rules, these practices of these managers will stop. Until then, you have to deal with them.

My point wasthat simply ditching a deal for Noasse, who would have been a better finisher than anything Palace had in the last 6 months, just because the agent was greedy, was to much. It wasn't an avoidance of setting a precedence, it was a show of power on behalf of Palace's decision making board.

Like Spain's President fired Lopetegui because he signed for Real Madrid without telling him. It's a message like: "I'm bigger than you!". But, in my experience, good players (or their family/ managers) are childish and hard headed and you have to know to close your eyes and look the other way sometimes. Sure, discipline is one thing, I'm 100% for it, but this wasn't a case of indiscipline by the player in case, it was just the greed of a manager. And, frankly, 400k for a club like Pallace, when the transfer fee was 8 million, was nothing.

I have read many books of my compatriot Mircea Lucescu, a very intelligent man, speaks 6-7 languages and I've watched him build Shakhtar from an unknown club in the '90s to an Europa League winner in 2009. And in his interviews or books he talks about accepting the moods of Brazilian players, especially as he was bringing them really young(aged 19-20). At one point he subbed Douglas Costa (now of Juventus, formerly of Bayern Munich) and the kid was very pissed, he yelled and cursed at the manager. Lucescu didn't expel him from the team like many would have and simply had a talk with him after the match, when things cooled down. But he wasn't a permissive manager. He didn't let players touch him and they never dated shower him with champaign. But he built a strong team with Willian, Douglas Costa, Fernandinho, Alex Teixeira, Mkhitaryan, all brought in young and trained. If the Ukrainean war hadn't ravaged the country, Shakhtar would have still been a powerhouse.