James McFadden needs to tell his agent not to cause trouble

Jun 29 2008 Gordon Waddell

PLAYERS used to employ agents to look after their best interests.

Someone should tell Willie Mckay, before he and that big wooden spoon of his cause any more trouble.

His revelation that James McFadden wanted out of Birmingham, almost as soon as the Blues were relegated and after just five months at the club, didn't do his man any favours at all.

But that's big Willie all over the back. He did it with Scott Brown and Kevin Thomson at Hibs.

And he did it again with Thomson this summer, trying to generate a new Gers deal for him with interest from West Brom and Everton. He did it with Joey Barton.

He'll tell you, with that cheeky grin of his, that the common denominator with all those deals is that he got his clients rich and got them moved.

And he's right. But what price a moral code to match their bank balances?