[careca07]

His transfer fee almost makes me believe something is going on behind the scenes. Or was. Did somebody's pockets get filled by that fee?

Yes. Ten Haag's own agent. How the relationship between ETH, the SEG agency and the insane transfer fees involved in the club signing Hoijlund, Antony etc for vast amounts hasn't properly been investigated I will never know.

Kees Vos who runs the agency seems to be ETH's best mate, and also represents him. ETH's own son works for the agency. They advised on the Antony sale - and of course the higher the transfer fee went the bigger the agent's cut.

As well as representing Hoijlund and getting a cut from that fee, they also were involved in the Amrabat loan and selling Zidane Iqbal. Apparently United staff were not happy at all about how cosy it all was.

Interestingly Stefan De Vrij sued them last year over hidden fees and was awarded 5 million euros in court.

ETH, his Dutch mates, his own son and the agency somehow managed to blow £600 million of the club's money on players who are absolutely abysmal, plus got a £16 million payout for being sacked after our worst Premier League season in history. It will take us a decade to recover.

 

[Big Ben Foster]

Was he not part of the same agency that Ten Hag was and his son was employed by? Same for Rasmus and a few others United got their pants pulled down by?

I read in an Athletic article yesterday that SEG represented both Hojlund and the club for his transfer. How is that even allowed? In any other industry that would be considered malpractice and an enormous conflict of interest.

 

[VP89]

Maybe. But is all of it inaccurate?

Well it's an opinion piece. They seem to be laying little blame on Murtough, and they are extrapolating what happens until contract expiry so yes.