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not gone unnoticed by football agents, who dislike family overly interfering with their management of players, that three Premier League footballers who failed to achieve the transfers they wanted during the last window — Jonny Evans (above) of West Bromwich and Arsenal pair Calum Chambers and Jack Wilshere — all have family members involved in their representation. Clubs tend to be a lot more honest with agents about a player’s future than with his family, whom they would not want to upset.