Jordon
Ibe’s stepfather will be given a job as a scout for Liverpool after
successfully agreeing the teenage winger’s new five-year contract at the club.
Michael Carnegie is set
to take up employment at Anfield having been on the opposite side of the negotiating
table during extensive talks over an improved deal signed on Thursday.
Liverpool is confident
no procedural issues arise from the forthcoming set up.
Under new
FA guidelines ‘intermediaries’ – the term applied to agents in deals after FIFA
deregulated the industry – must only act for one party in a transaction unless
stated beforehand. The laws came into effect on April 1.
Individuals pay £500 and
can only then take an active role in agency work. Carnegie is not registered as
an intermediary with the FA, but Alan Middleton, his associate does feature on
the official list.
Middleton
is a solicitor and equal shareholder in NextGen Sports Management Limited, a
company formed last December, alongside Carnegie and Burt Laurent, a football
agent. Each man holds a third of the shares, according to documents on
Companies House.
But, Carnegie told Sporstmail he
had recently stepped aside from NextGen – which has no connection to the former
European youth league – although declined to say exactly when or why. His
involvement was made public in reports last week.
Carnegie insisted his
only role these past few weeks has been getting the best deal for his stepson
Ibe, who joined Liverpool in December 2011. His new job for the club is
expected to see him scour local junior prospects.
He has previously
recommended a player to former academy director Frank McParland. McParland was
sacked by Liverpool in November 2013.
Ibe told the Mail on
Sunday recently he had no need for an agent and trusted his parents, Carnegie
and mother Charlet, totally.
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