now having spoken to quite a few players and agents the trend of the traditional representation management is clearly changing. Its yesterdays news that the average football player dont stay with the same agent the entire career and that the science/skill of career management is slowly diminishing... the phenomenon where a agent spots a player in its teenage years and helps to plan and build their entire career and afterlife is very rare.
A part of the reason is that the binding FIFA regulations says that a representation contract between a player/agent can maximum be valid for 2 years, naturally this gives other agents and players more room for action. Secondly (and this also common knowledge not me trying to be a professor), the global transfermarket nowadys is a so called "clubs market". Simply it means that it is much more the clubs that determine the rules than the players. Market is drenched with free agent players and most take the first offer handed to them. This has an direct impact for agents. Players now are smarter than signing with an agent for 2 years and indirectly excluding them from all other offers that the other agents can arrange.
= Therefore most players before the windows open, tell all agents something like this: "the agent that can come with best offer for me I will sign with"
+ recently I got mixed up in a so called "sour soup with too may chefs". It all started with a friendly phone call asking for help and now its quite out there in newspapers, player refusing to speak to agents and club directors only working with certain people... more on this in a couple of days when the heat is gone
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