From Selecting Clubs to Signing Deals: Football’s Hidden Partnership | Chris Richards, Crystal Palace & Alan Redmond, Roc Nation (Ep117)

About this episode

Chris Richards and his agent Alan Redmond discuss the intricacies of the player-agent relationship in football.

Player & Agent; we’ve been targeting a show like this for years, and today we bring it to you. This relationship is one of the most important in sport, but shrouded in mystery and hear say, often not portraying either side in the best light. You can put that all aside today. Crystal Palace centre back and the USA’s Men’s Player of the Year Chris Richards joined us with his agent Alan Redmond to talk through what it is like operating at the highest level in sport…together. Chris’s story is unique, from finding football as a youngster in Dallas to moving to Bayern Munich as a teenager to being a Premier League regular and FA Cup Winner. The role stable representation and Alan in particular has played in that seems integral; that’s what I took from this conversation. This really is one of a kind insight. Sit back and enjoy as we welcome Chris and Alan to the Business of Sport. A huge thank you to our amazing partners on the show: Airwallex The intelligent financial platform for global businesses https://www.airwallex.com/uk/ Gemini We empower the most confident sports organisations on Earth https://geminisports.ai/ Navan Save BIG with Navan’s Business Travel Management…

People in this episode

Hosts: Charlie Stebbings, Harry Stebbings

Guests: Chris Richards, Alan Redmond

Topics covered

• football
• player-agent relationship
• sports representation
• career journey
• Premier League
• FA Cup

Keywords

• football
• agent
• player representation
• Premier League
• FA Cup
• Chris Richards
• Alan Redmond

Sponsors

Airwallex, Gemini, Navan

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Crystal Palace, Bayern Munich

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