http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4133890/Dele-Alli-s-agent-hit-2m-tax-bill.html#ixzz4WC9GLMzp"There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing, neither does there appear to be any breach under FA regulations regarding 'restriction on conflict of interest', though the position is not totally clear. MK Dons declined to comment.
Robinson was unavailable."
Unavailable for the media? First for everything.
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Karl Robinson a shareholder in the agency of Dele Alli, which has gone bust. Surely that was a conflict of interest as his manager at MK Dons? How is that even allowed?
Seems like it could be deemed a conflict of interests
Explains a lot that has happened recently.
What car does Thomas Driesen drive?
It's within the interests of the ownership to have a competitive team, but also to make a profit for reinvestment into that team; at least in an ordinary club. Whilst the manager - in my opinion - should concern himself with the first objective only: having the best players, picking the best players and keeping the best players.
I'm beginning to warm to Karl, but this isn't the best news I've heard about him. Essentially it suggests his team selection was compromised, and his loyalty to the fans - and his duty of keeping and playing the best players - was compromised.
He got lucky, Alli is a great player. However what if he ended up a flop? Would Robinson have continued to put him in the shop window? Did he hedge the risk by investing in other players too?
If Robinson is on a percentage of the youth we sell, well then / well words fail me.
The souths answer to Crewe. It's absolute shit.
I don't want to sound rude or elitist but Football is now a super rich industry and the main players in it are, on the whole, less well educated and have never worked in any other industry so have little knowledge the types of integrity that the rest of us take for granted.
Someone like KR (not, necessarily him) can probably earn more from being a little bit 'clever' that he would earn in his whole career - assuming that he doesn't make it to the top of the Championship or the Premier League. Why wouldn't a manager on £50k a year, on a short contract, help a young player to further his career if there's potentially a few hundred grand in it for him.
In the case of Dele Alli the boy is so, outrageously, talented that no one can ever accuse KR of playing him when he shouldn't have done. He is likely to go on to be one of the best English players of his generation and he's most pf the way there already and he's only 20. I can only imagine how fantastic he looked in the league of cloggers that we are currently part of.
The family of a now departed head of the Academy were agents. Just a coincidence I'm sure.
Do any of our local press people have the inclination to ask Karl Robinson plainly if he has any conflict of interest regarding our players, either directly or through associates.
There might, just might, have been a conflict of interest while Alli was both managed by KR and represented by a firm in which KR had shares but its not clear.
Alli is clearly a very good player and would have moved to the premiership regardless of KR talking him up or who his agent was. The question is whether KR always acted in the best interest of his employer, MK Dons, or whether his behaviour was influenced by a potential benefit from Impact sports. The article raises that question but doesn't answer it.
shop windowfirst team regardless of how deserving they are of a place in the teamA huge conflict of interest if correct.
I would assume he's not doing anything wrong as none of their players play for Charlton and he wasn't a shareholder when Alli signed for Tottenham (Feb 2nd, 2015). Whether or not he was in contact with this company before Feb 2nd is obviously the contentious issue.
He could've easily met with companies in January looking to come onboard with the view that he'd sell Alli and make a gain from it through them. But told them that he was not to be formally part of the company until the summer.
I reckon there's loads of ways managers get around the third party ownership rules. For me, I'd say that no one currently involved in football should have a financial interest in a company like this.
Not identical, I agree, but I'm sure you can see the similarities, Henners.
A huge difference of course would be if MK Dons were not aware (or it was kept from them) of KR's involvement with the agent. Not sure that has been intimated unless I've missed something.