Wonder if the new owners will pay these. Maybe we will be able to sign some decent players and not peoples cast offs.

Its a necessary evil in the modern game.

Last season 15 clubs paid less than 20 grand throughout the whole season on them.

We're not talking mega bucks

If a few grand to an agent gets us decent players to keep us up or get promoted i'm all for it.

IOR took the moral high ground over agents but at the end of the day we got relegated and struggled so its hardly a great advert for not paying them.

It transpires that it wasnt the moral high ground, but more because they were money grabbing tights wads.

oil company and moral ground in the same sentence thats a first

and saying all agents are the same is taking the easy option
of course a agent wants paying you would

an oil company that does not bumg people will soon be out of the industry

In his interview Ronnie Moore said he was already talking to agents so I'm guessing that agent's fees won't stand in the way of him bringing the right players in.

Excellent news. Let's start getting some proper footballers in at long last

I thought that Pools just didn't pay fees directly to agents, didn't they just give the player a few extra quid who then passed it onto his agent

You thought correctly, far too much has talked about this over the years. Pools players have agents they just don't get paid directly by the club. The reason we have a plethora of shite players is because that's what happens when you're offering 600 and 700 hundred bar a week at this level. Nothing to do with directly paying agents.