 Mawhinney has challenged the Pemiership |
The Football League has challenged the Premiership to follow suit by revealing how much their clubs paid to agents. Football League clubs forked out a total of �1.4m to agents in the past six months, representing 12% of the 963 deals in that period.
"We're delivering new standards of transparency and good governance to the football industry," said Football League chairman Brian Mawhinney.
"I would hope it is a lead others might choose to follow."
Mawhinney added: "In releasing these figures we do not seek to pass judgement on the stewardship of individual clubs.
"It is simply our view that money being lost to the game through such payments should be a matter for public information and debate."
But the Football League's challenge is unlikely to be taken up by the Premiership.
Many of the top clubs would not want to reveal the huge amounts of money slipping out of the game and into the pockets of agents.
Manchester United admitted paying agents �750,000 on the �11m transfer of Louis Saha from Fulham.
Alan Smith's recent move from Leeds to Old Trafford and Harry Kewell's switch to Liverpool from Leeds last season also involved massive agents' fees which staggered fans.
The Football League figures show that last season's Division One clubs accounted for 80% of the �1.4m which Football League members paid to agents.
Derby County shelled out �279,000 in 22 transactions and West Ham United �243,500 in 18 deals.
But 34 clubs, just under half the membership, did not pay any money at all to agents during the period under review.
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