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The “make your mind up” deadline imposed by Sunderland AFC upon their striker Josh Maja, elapsed on Friday with no obvious progress being made.
It seems he wanted to sign a new contract, but after some predictably grubby, unprofessional and discourteous behaviour from his agent, everyone remains in limbo.
I say predictably based on the main fact we have pertaining to Maja’s agent: that he’s an agent.
Sure enough, negations were torpedoed by the gentleman in question, who felt it perfectly acceptable to inform, not the club that pays the player’s wages (and by extension, his), but the media of his client’s volte-face.
On November 21, 2018, this column said: “We should also remember the disease known as agents. Perhaps Maja has the only agent on earth who isn’t motivated by self-interest; who wouldn’t serve mankind better by entering a more noble and respected profession, such as shoplifting. We can only hope.”
Unsurprisingly, we hoped in vain.
We shouldn’t blame Maja. Only just turned 20 years old, he is one of many, many footballers who naively, gullibly believe that agents are there to serve their clients.
He probably thinks an agent is essential, because that’s what he and all those others were told, without anything like a plausible