Wednesday, February 15, 2006
The Cost of Ian Evatt
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The Cost of Ian Evatt
LSA's 7th February report on LSA Meeting with Club Representatives on Monday 30th January 2006, Paladini Players …. Rossi: in answer to questions about how much Rossi had cost us, GP said a lump sum of £20k and that he was on much lower wages than Chris Day. ...Evatt: GP maintained that agent Mel Eves had only received £3k for the signing, with a further £7k going to Ian Evatt’s own agent.In LSA's 15th November 2005 report of the LSA Meeting with Club Representatives on Monday 7 November 2005.."A Member asked whether Ian Holloway had himself approved of all our recent signings or whether the decision to sign some of the players had been made by GP. GP said that Holloway had been given about £500k to spend, and GP gave him a list of some players to consider who would be affordable and who GP knew of through his contacts with agents and other people in the game. Holloway was particularly looking for a centre back, a left back, and a striker.GP said that he and Holloway also went “round the world” looking at players together.Holloway was very keen on signing Butler at centre back, but the asking price rocketed from £200k to £1m so we couldn’t afford him.GP said he then recommended Ian Evatt to Holloway and said he thought we should buy him, and Holloway agreed. Evatt was being chased by several other clubs.The LSA 8th September report on the 5 September Meeting"...GP said that he has done deals to bring three players to the Club and the fees paid to agents have been very low as follows:• Lee Cook - £15k over two years • Georges Santos - £6k over three years • Dominic Shimmin - £10k ..
.Six Clubs were after Ian Evatt. We paid £175k for Evatt and we paid Mel Eves £3k to represent QPR in the negotiations. The alternative was to go through Evatt’s own agent and then we would have had to have paid a lot more.But in the QPR 1st "Trust meeting with Gianni Paladini - ReportSeptember 18, 2005• Agents fees – We asked GP to please clarify the situation regarding agents fees, and in particular the amount that was paid to Ian Evatt's agent. GP said the amount was £40,000 and when we queried why he had reported it the previous week that it had been £3,000 he claimed it was a misunderstanding. The fee was £40,000 to be paid over 3 years. Mel Eves, who was Evatt's agent received £3k, BP and GP went to Spain with Mel Eves to do the deal. There was another agent involved (he didn't name him) and with the final bill/deal for Evatt coming to £175,000, GP said that the agent's fee collectively came to £40,000. GP claimed that every deal (didn't specify which deals!) was signed by BP and MD and that he himself has never signed any cheques. http://www.qpr1st.co.uk/main/newsarticle.asp?id=27
Standard Stings Paladini Posted on Rivals By Clive WhittinghamDate: 22/9/2005"....Last June, QPR signed Ian Evatt from Chesterfield for around £200,000 in a transfer brokered by the agent and former Wolves defender Mel Eves. Acting for the club, Eves was paid £40,000 from the transfer, 20 per cent of the total value of the deal. Industry insiders say the average is around five per cent. It is also surprisingly high given Evatt's apparent willingness to join QPR. It has also emerged that Eves and Paladini are known on the West Midlands football circuit as close friends. They live near one another in the Birmingham area and worked together as agents on the £4m deal which took West Bromwich Albion's Enzo Maresca to Juventus in 2000. The pair are also listed as working as "professional introducers" for Wolverhampton-based financial advisers FSC Investment Services Ltd. In a section listing financial services offered to professional footballers, FSC's website states: "We have specialist knowledge of the market as we have professional introducers like Mel Eves - England International, ex-Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion, Gianni Paladini - FIFA Players Agent, ex-Juventus and Italy, and Tony Daly - England International, ex-Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers." Eves was also involved in the deal for Dean Sturridge, who joined QPR on a free transfer in March. Despite languishing in the Wolves reserves and apparently anxious to leave Molineux, Sturridge still managed to secure a £3,500-a-week salary, a £2,000-a-month accommodation allowance and a £1,250 bonus for every goal he scores. This deal netted Eves another £10,000 from QPR. ...An Italian agent, Marco Sommella, has also cashed in since Paladini's arrival at QPR. He was responsible for goalkeeper Generoso Rossi, who joined towards the end of last season after being banned in Italy for involvement in a betting scandal. Rossi cost £40,000 in agents' fees and, after playing just twice for QPR, has returned to Italy. Sommella, Standard Sport understands, is another friend of Paladini.
,The Standard also lists the following current/ex QPR players, who Marcus Bean, PML Sports Management, £4680 Marcus Bignot, Eric Hall, £5,000 Marc Bircham, Lee Bircham, £16,380 Aaron Brown, Michael Drew, £2,000 Lee Cook, Frank Trimboli, £25,000 Chris Day, Stellar Promotions, £4,500 Tommy Doherty, Clarke Willmott Solicitors, £27,000 Ian Evatt, Mel Eves, £40,000 Paul Furlong, PML Sports Management, £26,000 Kevin Gallen, PML Sports Management, £20,800 Arthur Gnohere, Karim Djaziri, £10,000 Richard Johnson, Robert Segal, £3,900 Pat Kanyuka, Gus Nwanokwu, £2,500 Ian Holloway, Robert Segal, £20,000 Kevin McLeod, Proactive Sports Management, £5,000 Stefan Moore, Steve Kutner, £25,000 Marc Nygaard, Brian Hassall, £60,000 Matthew Rose, Phillip Graham, £7,525 Generoso Rossi, Marco Sommella, £40,000 Simon Royce, Steven Denos, £15,600 Martin Rowlands, Stellar Promotions, £3,750 / Stellar Football Ltd, £9,100 Georges Santos, Galaxy Sports Management, £12,000 Dominic Shimmin, Barry Silkman, £10,000 Daniel Shittu, David Manasseh, £16,500 / Warwick Horton, £44,050 Dean Sturridge, Mel Eves, £10,000 Tony Thorpe, David Manasseh, £7,500 Club Respond"...With the exception of Milanese, Langley and Lomas all the other deals were signed by either the ex-Chairman or the Chief Executive" http://queensparkrangers.rivals.net/default.asp?sid=925andp=2andstid=8392271
The Times September 30, 2005 Chairman sees himself as agent for QPR revival By Alex Wade GIANNI PALADINI was in typically expressive form. The former Fifa-registered agent had just been appointed as chairman of Queens Park Rangers and the phone would not stop ringing. Call after call came in, from well-wishers, QPR fans and, yes, one or two agents, with congratulations. Paladini — who looks at least ten years younger than his 60 years — talked animatedly in English and Italian. Loftus Road has rarely echoed to the language of Dante, but the club’s long-suffering fans would not be surprised if a scene from The Divine Comedy appeared in the programme for Monday’s Coca-Cola Championship fixture against Crystal Palace. QPR have become the club at which anything can happen. Confirmation of Paladini’s appointment yesterday comes on the back of events straight out of a soap opera. “Not a month has gone by without someone trying to get rid of me,” Paladini said of his 18-month involvement with the club. An acrimonious boardroom dispute turned nasty when, minutes before an early-season home match against Sheffield United, a gang burst into the inner sanctum at Loftus Road, held a gun to Paladini’s head and allegedly forced him to sign a letter by which he would resign from the board. Four men have since been charged with conspiracy to commit blackmail and joint possession of a firearm with intent to commit grievous bodily harm. This week, fresh controversy surrounded the affable Italian. It has been alleged in the press that he is using QPR to line the pockets of various agent friends with deals that the club cannot afford. Typical is the suggestion that one recent acquisition — Marc Nygaard, on a free transfer from Brescia — is said to have resulted in a £60,000 payment to Brian Hassell, an agent.
Similarly, it is claimed that £40,000 was paid to Mel Eves, a Midlands-based, for the transfer of Ian Evatt. “These allegations are stupid,” Paladini said. “They are made by people with no understanding of how football works. If they want to paint a picture of me as a crook, they should find something I have done wrong. In fact, I have done nothing wrong, and they have no idea what they’re talking about.” ....He adds that he has overseen only three signings. “The others were all signed off by either the ex-chairman or the chief executive,” he said. “I am angry that I have been dragged through the mud like this. They have called me a thief with no evidence at all. “What does it prove, that I know other agents? I have spent my life in football. If you a solicitor, you know other solicitors. I need to know all the agents in the game, and knowing them means I can do a better job for QPR. I understand how transfers work. Football is a business and you need to know this side of it as much as the passion.” ...
The Cost of Ian Evatt
LSA's 7th February report on LSA Meeting with Club Representatives on Monday 30th January 2006, Paladini Players …. Rossi: in answer to questions about how much Rossi had cost us, GP said a lump sum of £20k and that he was on much lower wages than Chris Day. ...Evatt: GP maintained that agent Mel Eves had only received £3k for the signing, with a further £7k going to Ian Evatt’s own agent.In LSA's 15th November 2005 report of the LSA Meeting with Club Representatives on Monday 7 November 2005.."A Member asked whether Ian Holloway had himself approved of all our recent signings or whether the decision to sign some of the players had been made by GP. GP said that Holloway had been given about £500k to spend, and GP gave him a list of some players to consider who would be affordable and who GP knew of through his contacts with agents and other people in the game. Holloway was particularly looking for a centre back, a left back, and a striker.GP said that he and Holloway also went “round the world” looking at players together.Holloway was very keen on signing Butler at centre back, but the asking price rocketed from £200k to £1m so we couldn’t afford him.GP said he then recommended Ian Evatt to Holloway and said he thought we should buy him, and Holloway agreed. Evatt was being chased by several other clubs.The LSA 8th September report on the 5 September Meeting"...GP said that he has done deals to bring three players to the Club and the fees paid to agents have been very low as follows:• Lee Cook - £15k over two years • Georges Santos - £6k over three years • Dominic Shimmin - £10k ..
.Six Clubs were after Ian Evatt. We paid £175k for Evatt and we paid Mel Eves £3k to represent QPR in the negotiations. The alternative was to go through Evatt’s own agent and then we would have had to have paid a lot more.But in the QPR 1st "Trust meeting with Gianni Paladini - ReportSeptember 18, 2005• Agents fees – We asked GP to please clarify the situation regarding agents fees, and in particular the amount that was paid to Ian Evatt's agent. GP said the amount was £40,000 and when we queried why he had reported it the previous week that it had been £3,000 he claimed it was a misunderstanding. The fee was £40,000 to be paid over 3 years. Mel Eves, who was Evatt's agent received £3k, BP and GP went to Spain with Mel Eves to do the deal. There was another agent involved (he didn't name him) and with the final bill/deal for Evatt coming to £175,000, GP said that the agent's fee collectively came to £40,000. GP claimed that every deal (didn't specify which deals!) was signed by BP and MD and that he himself has never signed any cheques. http://www.qpr1st.co.uk/main/newsarticle.asp?id=27
Standard Stings Paladini Posted on Rivals By Clive WhittinghamDate: 22/9/2005"....Last June, QPR signed Ian Evatt from Chesterfield for around £200,000 in a transfer brokered by the agent and former Wolves defender Mel Eves. Acting for the club, Eves was paid £40,000 from the transfer, 20 per cent of the total value of the deal. Industry insiders say the average is around five per cent. It is also surprisingly high given Evatt's apparent willingness to join QPR. It has also emerged that Eves and Paladini are known on the West Midlands football circuit as close friends. They live near one another in the Birmingham area and worked together as agents on the £4m deal which took West Bromwich Albion's Enzo Maresca to Juventus in 2000. The pair are also listed as working as "professional introducers" for Wolverhampton-based financial advisers FSC Investment Services Ltd. In a section listing financial services offered to professional footballers, FSC's website states: "We have specialist knowledge of the market as we have professional introducers like Mel Eves - England International, ex-Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion, Gianni Paladini - FIFA Players Agent, ex-Juventus and Italy, and Tony Daly - England International, ex-Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers." Eves was also involved in the deal for Dean Sturridge, who joined QPR on a free transfer in March. Despite languishing in the Wolves reserves and apparently anxious to leave Molineux, Sturridge still managed to secure a £3,500-a-week salary, a £2,000-a-month accommodation allowance and a £1,250 bonus for every goal he scores. This deal netted Eves another £10,000 from QPR. ...An Italian agent, Marco Sommella, has also cashed in since Paladini's arrival at QPR. He was responsible for goalkeeper Generoso Rossi, who joined towards the end of last season after being banned in Italy for involvement in a betting scandal. Rossi cost £40,000 in agents' fees and, after playing just twice for QPR, has returned to Italy. Sommella, Standard Sport understands, is another friend of Paladini.
,The Standard also lists the following current/ex QPR players, who Marcus Bean, PML Sports Management, £4680 Marcus Bignot, Eric Hall, £5,000 Marc Bircham, Lee Bircham, £16,380 Aaron Brown, Michael Drew, £2,000 Lee Cook, Frank Trimboli, £25,000 Chris Day, Stellar Promotions, £4,500 Tommy Doherty, Clarke Willmott Solicitors, £27,000 Ian Evatt, Mel Eves, £40,000 Paul Furlong, PML Sports Management, £26,000 Kevin Gallen, PML Sports Management, £20,800 Arthur Gnohere, Karim Djaziri, £10,000 Richard Johnson, Robert Segal, £3,900 Pat Kanyuka, Gus Nwanokwu, £2,500 Ian Holloway, Robert Segal, £20,000 Kevin McLeod, Proactive Sports Management, £5,000 Stefan Moore, Steve Kutner, £25,000 Marc Nygaard, Brian Hassall, £60,000 Matthew Rose, Phillip Graham, £7,525 Generoso Rossi, Marco Sommella, £40,000 Simon Royce, Steven Denos, £15,600 Martin Rowlands, Stellar Promotions, £3,750 / Stellar Football Ltd, £9,100 Georges Santos, Galaxy Sports Management, £12,000 Dominic Shimmin, Barry Silkman, £10,000 Daniel Shittu, David Manasseh, £16,500 / Warwick Horton, £44,050 Dean Sturridge, Mel Eves, £10,000 Tony Thorpe, David Manasseh, £7,500 Club Respond"...With the exception of Milanese, Langley and Lomas all the other deals were signed by either the ex-Chairman or the Chief Executive" http://queensparkrangers.rivals.net/default.asp?sid=925andp=2andstid=8392271
The Times September 30, 2005 Chairman sees himself as agent for QPR revival By Alex Wade GIANNI PALADINI was in typically expressive form. The former Fifa-registered agent had just been appointed as chairman of Queens Park Rangers and the phone would not stop ringing. Call after call came in, from well-wishers, QPR fans and, yes, one or two agents, with congratulations. Paladini — who looks at least ten years younger than his 60 years — talked animatedly in English and Italian. Loftus Road has rarely echoed to the language of Dante, but the club’s long-suffering fans would not be surprised if a scene from The Divine Comedy appeared in the programme for Monday’s Coca-Cola Championship fixture against Crystal Palace. QPR have become the club at which anything can happen. Confirmation of Paladini’s appointment yesterday comes on the back of events straight out of a soap opera. “Not a month has gone by without someone trying to get rid of me,” Paladini said of his 18-month involvement with the club. An acrimonious boardroom dispute turned nasty when, minutes before an early-season home match against Sheffield United, a gang burst into the inner sanctum at Loftus Road, held a gun to Paladini’s head and allegedly forced him to sign a letter by which he would resign from the board. Four men have since been charged with conspiracy to commit blackmail and joint possession of a firearm with intent to commit grievous bodily harm. This week, fresh controversy surrounded the affable Italian. It has been alleged in the press that he is using QPR to line the pockets of various agent friends with deals that the club cannot afford. Typical is the suggestion that one recent acquisition — Marc Nygaard, on a free transfer from Brescia — is said to have resulted in a £60,000 payment to Brian Hassell, an agent.
Similarly, it is claimed that £40,000 was paid to Mel Eves, a Midlands-based, for the transfer of Ian Evatt. “These allegations are stupid,” Paladini said. “They are made by people with no understanding of how football works. If they want to paint a picture of me as a crook, they should find something I have done wrong. In fact, I have done nothing wrong, and they have no idea what they’re talking about.” ....He adds that he has overseen only three signings. “The others were all signed off by either the ex-chairman or the chief executive,” he said. “I am angry that I have been dragged through the mud like this. They have called me a thief with no evidence at all. “What does it prove, that I know other agents? I have spent my life in football. If you a solicitor, you know other solicitors. I need to know all the agents in the game, and knowing them means I can do a better job for QPR. I understand how transfers work. Football is a business and you need to know this side of it as much as the passion.” ...
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