How Many People Own A Slice Of The Southgate Pizza?

This week a reserve team player who has played barely 90 minutes for his club this season and who hadn't played for his country for thirteen months achieved wall-to-wall mainstream media coverage over an incident as inconsequential as you might wish to create, so minor that even his own club and international team-mates say that this is commonplace in football and should be kept within the squad circle and not aired publicly.

But aired publicly it was, ad fucking nauseum.

Joe Gomez, the player in question is represented by John Colquhoun's Key Sports Management.
Mr Colquhoun has issues with Raheem Sterling from the Aidy Ward era - Sterling faced down Colly Boy's weird business strategies and hasn't been forgiven.

So a no-brainer for Colquhoun...

But.

Why did Gareth Southgate make this minor spat public?
Who else influenced that choice?
When did Southgate make the decision that Gomez would play a part in the game - prior to the inflated spectacle or because of it?
Did any money change hands between any agent and any other representative relating to this peripheral news?

And, no doubt, in a world of pseudo-fake, Joe Gomez will be worth more in the transfer market because of this charade.

Peripheral stories to sell papers and secure profits...

Southgate's squad selection is biased tilted owned impacted by a small grouping of agents with 6 of the current England squad being represented by Stellar, for example (including all three goalkeepers - Stellar also represent 1st choice Scottish keeper and 1st and 2nd choice Welsh which might be a problem if either of the owners were professional gamblers, which, of course, they are).

Not so long ago, Colquhoun also represented all three England squad goalkeepers (under McClaren), and that ended badly with Wally-with-the-Brolly-gate and Scott Carson's mistake.

And this ownership of England squad players by a small fragmented cartel of agents is consolidated by hidden representation.

There is an invisible market in football which is never addressed in the mainstream media...
... it is the underground market where agents and intermediaries trade players between their agencies like pieces of meat with multiple and third party ownership being the norm in this infrastructure.

New agencies are established and the key players like Colquhoun are now known to be behind tens of different firms in partial or complete ownership (or other suitable linkage).

The opacity regarding ownership of players needs to be addressed.
Mind you the opacity relating to club owners needs sorting too.
And referee selection.
And doping.
And insider trading.
And matchfixing.

And the British sports media is nothing if not opaque.

Anyway.
That's an aside.

The key question here remains...

... How Many People Own A Slice Of The Southgate Pizza?
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