03 Nov 2025 14:00:35
I see that an unnamed PL player in his 20s has been threatened at gun point by an agent! Hope they are coping ok whoever they are.
I always thought agents ran around acting like some kind of mafia boss trying to engineer moves to earn themselves big paydays without considering the best interests of the player or clubs involved but this is ridiculous. Hopefully it triggers some kind of review.
03 Nov 2025 15:17:54
Ah, so now I see what Arne Slot's convincing plan was to bring Wirtz to Liverpool. Unique as negotiations go, but clearly worked.
Jokes aside, a lot of people saying that the player in question is Morgan Gibbs White, but a lot of the facts don't track for that to be the case. The incident happened in September, however MGW had already signed his contract before then to stay at Nottingham Forest. So very unlikely to be him.
Apparently the agent also did this to a second player, but his league, etc, has not been confirmed. Hopefully really consequences come from this, as I have no doubts that agents have used leverage (Perhaps even unlawful) to force their clients to make decision to the detriment, in the name of filling the agents pockets. Some agents run their business like are the mafia, and their influence should have been curbed by the FA, but we know how weak and spineless they are.
03 Nov 2025 15:21:51
I imagine the Agents operating license will be taken away if true.
03 Nov 2025 15:36:38
Hope it triggers a review too.
03 Nov 2025 16:10:58
The agent should get the bullet.
03 Nov 2025 20:12:50
It’s bang out of order that.
03 Nov 2025 20:55:36
This should not be used as the butt of some jokes.
03 Nov 2025 21:01:15
Who knew that agents were morally vacuous vermin.
03 Nov 2025 21:08:25
I’m a scouser we laugh at everything but this Shouldn’t be joked about full stop, think you’re are divies for trying to make light of it. It could really affect the kid may even end up with ptsd or the likes. Sad la.
03 Nov 2025 21:41:28
You’re right Scouse, it’s a very serious situation. Hope the player is OK and not the target of any future attacks.
03 Nov 2025 22:45:20
Need to get shot of these jokes, lads.
04 Nov 2025 06:45:50
Wow, some reason people are getting triggered by other posters making jokes. There's nothing funny about being a target and being in the line of fire. I heard the young man was great at Shooting and refused to get out of town and the agent was from Pinkertons. That what happens when you deal with cowboys.
04 Nov 2025 07:25:52
Scouse John L8 what has you being a Scouser got to do with anything?
04 Nov 2025 07:29:04
Just hope his agent wasn't 'el pistolero'.
04 Nov 2025 09:32:49
Thought they would’ve fired him.
04 Nov 2025 10:01:30
Scouse John L8 is right. These jokes are terrible and really uncalled for.
Imagine putting one of your loved ones in this situation, I know everyone thinks footballers are not human and have no feelings but they are kids.
We all know Scouse humour is world class on its day and it has helped so many people through so much hardship, this isn't one of those occasions. To make light of this in my opinion is unhelpful but you also have your own opinions which you have shown with your posts.
This is a time to show disgust in a unruly mob who thinks it is ok to scare kids into signing for a club just to get more commission for themselves.
04 Nov 2025 11:44:26
The jokes were puns about guns- gun puns, if you like it- rather than the incident.
Maybe they were in bad taste but no worse than Scousers laughing at everything, surely.
04 Nov 2025 15:01:23
U gun and done it now Rigsby, what will Miss Jones think.
04 Nov 2025 20:51:38
Maybe he told his agent to "just always be honest and shoot me straight" and said agent took it the wrong way.
All in good fun I'd say Rigsby. We have to have a laugh from time to time.
Thankfully the lad was unhurt at least physically.
04 Nov 2025 22:17:57
Humour being used to relieve stress and shock. I’m sure there would not have been jokes if the outcome of the situation had been different.
I liked the ‘gun puns’ and @Frode’s was my fave.
04 Nov 2025 23:13:55
Athletic reporting it was Destonie Udogie and his agent.
05 Nov 2025 01:51:06
WDW for sure. Hopefully the agent will be receiving blank checks from here on out.
05 Nov 2025 04:18:01
I thought the point of a joke was to be funny? Or at least witty? Don’t give up your day job.
05 Nov 2025 10:29:31
They can consider themselves shot down @StE eh?
05 Nov 2025 14:09:03
We really should have thought about the player, Udogie, and his family.
Can you imagine being Destiny's Child?