Do I Need a Football Agent?

One of the first things a scholar or new professional football player will usually ask themselves is do i need a football agent? It's a very common question and can be explained relatively easily. Some say that behind every successful professional footballer is a football agent who is just as prolific in their own field as them. That's why some ex-professionals go on to be just as good intermediaries as they were when they played the game professionally.

So, when it comes down to the big question of "do i need a football agent" the answer can be as simple as no, but this obviously depends on who you ask? This is very true, as not every footballer needs an agent to complete a successful full season or even complete a transfer from club to club. However, if you ask any successful footballer would you have been able to be as successful without your football agent they'd more than likely say they couldn't have done it without them. That is as long as they had a good hard working agent that worked just as hard (if not harder) than them.

​Over the years you hear of horror stories where top professional footballers have missed out on a top multi-million pound sponsorship deal by a leading sports brand, this is because they didn't have the correct agent or even worse they didn't have an agent at all. But instead, the big life changing deal went to the next best player at a different club. It's at this point that having the right agent can make the world of difference.

Having a good UK football agent with an excellent list of contacts and having their finger on the pulse can help catapult a professional footballer's career straight into the premier league. With hard work on and off the pitch, a successful team of player and agent can be an unbeatable partnership.