BBD

[jono_t2000]

tazzy you remind me of this;

 

[CPB]

He's put himself in the shop window this summer.

This move has worked for him personally, you can easily see a PL club decide to have a nibble in the summer. It would be a lower end or recently promoted club.

Ipswich may well be the type of club.

Unfortunately for us, I cannot see him coming to us in the summer even on loan. He's surely going to have better options.

But he has at least been a player I've enjoyed watching at times this season which can't be said too often this season.

 

[Melbourne Blade]

His post match interview comments were interesting. Sounded like he said "I'd be grateful for the club to give me the opportunity to come here and play". Unless he meant he's grateful past tense. He's not very eloquent.

 

[Agreasychipbutty]

His post match interview comments were interesting. Sounded like he said "I'd be grateful for the club to give me the opportunity to come here and play". Unless he meant he's grateful past tense. He's not very eloquent.

Ye I think he just misspoke and meant it in the past tense. Because he's been asked directly if he would like to come back in previous interviews and avoided the question (as you would expect for a loan player) and even in that interview said his plan was to go back to villa real and see what they want to do with him.

 

[Foxy]

His post match interview comments were interesting. Sounded like he said "I'd be grateful for the club to give me the opportunity to come here and play". Unless he meant he's grateful past tense. He's not very eloquent.

Part way through the one I watched he changed from we to they when talking about the Blades and next season.

 

[Maidenhead]

Had a beer with an uncle of his tonight who reckons that Ben would love to stay at United, as would his wife to be, but his agent has other ideas

 

[mattbianco1]

Had a beer with an uncle of his tonight who reckons that Ben would love to stay at United, as would his wife to be, but his agent has other ideas

This is what pisses me off with transfers. Why should the agent get a say in it?

 

[loveWalrusDaveTheBlade]

Had a beer with an uncle of his tonight who reckons that Ben would love to stay at United, as would his wife to be, but his agent has other ideas

If that’s the case, then I hope he reminds his agent who is actually in charge of their professional relationship.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Had a beer with an uncle of his tonight who reckons that Ben would love to stay at United, as would his wife to be, but his agent has other ideas

Did we have her on loan too?

 

[BalticBlade]

This is what pisses me off with transfers. Why should the agent get a say in it?

Agents are nothing but self-serving *****

 

[Mag-83]

Agents are nothing but self-serving *****

Agents are self serving see you next Tuesdays. However, these agents practically wipe the arses of players. Without agents, the modern player would not be able to move house, organise the direct debits for the power and water companies, obtain schools for their kids, organise the lease for their Range Rovers etc.

 

[Danetheblade]

Agents are self serving see you next Tuesdays. However, these agents practically wipe the arses of players. Without agents, the modern player would not be able to move house, organise the direct debits for the power and water companies, obtain schools for their kids, organise the lease for their Range Rovers etc.

Maybe further down the pyramid. However many clubs (including ours I believe) have a person at the club that arranges this for them.

 

[ForgeBlade]

Agents are nothing but self-serving *****

Cunts. They are parasitic cunts who only exist to make money for themselves. I appreciate that a lot of players aren't exactly the brightest bulbs in their respective boxes, but since player wages are now so enormously (obscenely) high, does it really matter if Player A signs for Club A or Club B, where the difference in pay is a mere £5k a week? All agents do is fuck around, getting in the way of transfers while they strive to get the best deal for their client. Which in real terms means the best deal for the agent, when he gets his cut of the signing on fee. Football would be much better off removing these leeching parasites from the scenario.

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

This is what pisses me off with transfers. Why should the agent get a say in it?

Because they don’t unless their employers tell them to. Agents only control the players who want to be controlled.
If this is true BBD is just being nice. If he wanted to come back to the Blades he could make it happen, but completely understandably he wants to maximise his income or play at a higher level.

 

[Mag-83]

BBD will be beholden to his agent even though his agent has already gleaned untold fortunes from him. Sad.

 

[Blade45]

Is there any way we could realistically buy him should we get new owners? With him and his wife supposedly being settled in the city (don’t blame em), could we bring him back? With BBD, keeping Hamer and Arblaster + takeover money, we could easily be in playoffs.

 

[JJBlade]

Is there any way we could realistically buy him should we get new owners? With him and his wife supposedly being settled in the city (don’t blame em), could we bring him back? With BBD, keeping Hamer and Arblaster + takeover money, we could easily be in playoffs.

Playoffs ????
Yeah, cos that always goes well for us doesn't it

 

[Blade45]

Playoffs ????
Yeah, cos that always goes well for us doesn't it

Well I never said we’d win the playoffs.

 

[Maurice Maurice]

He's not that good. Runs a lot, puts pressure on defenders but his first touch isn't great and his vision isn't all that.

I'm not siding with agents in any way, shape or form, I think they should have their skin stripped and then be rolled in salt, but I do think we need a better option than BBD.

UTBFTP

 

[Bell4]

Did we have her on loan too?

Was part of the deal but she did her purse string in

 

[coolasanidiot]

He's not that good. Runs a lot, puts pressure on defenders but his first touch isn't great and his vision isn't all that.

I'm not siding with agents in any way, shape or form, I think they should have their skin stripped and then be rolled in salt, but I do think we need a better option than BBD.

UTBFTP

Wow- each to their own , but from what I saw- BBD was everything we need.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Was part of the deal but she did her hamstring in

Some people will do anything just to fit in.

 

[Woodhouseblades]

If that’s the case, then I hope he reminds his agent who is actually in charge of their professional relationship.

His agent is in charge he’s the one getting him the most money ( and most personal commission) which is why BBD chose him as his agent

 

[loveWalrusDaveTheBlade]

His agent is in charge he’s the one getting him the most money ( and most personal commission) which is why BBD chose him as his agent

Utter nonsense. BBD is in effect paying the agent and is therefore the customer of his services. BBD can define what he wants in terms of next steps in his career, and it is then the job of the agent to seek to facilitate that.
Money is the obvious driver for pretty much everybody when starting out in a career, until the time that you have got enough of it. BBD will already be very much beyond that point in life, so can consider other value-adding elements of his life in his considerations, such as countries and areas in which he wants to live and work. It’s ridiculous to suggest that the life of a multimillionaire is controlled by an agent. If BBD wanted to live in or around Sheffield ( and I’m not saying that this is the case, but I wouldn’t blame him), then the agent needs to seek the best opportunities within that remit. He couldn’t send BBD to Marseille as an alternative, because it doesn’t fit the remit.
Can you seriously imagine that BBD would sign a contract with an agent agreeing to do anything he told him to as long as it earned him the most money? Daft.

 

[mattbianco1]

Because they don’t unless their employers tell them to. Agents only control the players who want to be controlled.
If this is true BBD is just being nice. If he wanted to come back to the Blades he could make it happen, but completely understandably he wants to maximise his income or play at a higher level.

Jerome Sinclair wants a word

 

[HOT CURRIE 10]

He's not that good. Runs a lot, puts pressure on defenders but his first touch isn't great and his vision isn't all that.

I'm not siding with agents in any way, shape or form, I think they should have their skin stripped and then be rolled in salt, but I do think we need a better option than BBD.

UTBFTP

Disagree entirely. He is a proper footballer who has had a cast of idiots around him. He was the only one who held his position,knew where others were,linked up,short passed all the time,went both ways,his touch and close control was excellent most of the time. I will say he should have had half a dozen more goals than he had but then you could have said that about Illiman.

 

[Maidenhead]

If that’s the case, then I hope he reminds his agent who is actually in charge of their professional relationship.

I told him to have that conversation with Ben

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Bring him back, and Illy. We're minted, or soon to be. Let's fucking have it.

 

[Broomhall Blade]

Bring him back, and Illy. We're minted, or soon to be. Let's fucking have it.

That would be a if Carlsberg did transfers.
If that happened automatics would be a cert.

 

[SUFC Guy]

He's not that good. Runs a lot, puts pressure on defenders but his first touch isn't great and his vision isn't all that.

I'm not siding with agents in any way, shape or form, I think they should have their skin stripped and then be rolled in salt, but I do think we need a better option than BBD.

UTBFTP