Scam Alert : Manchester United Staff Questions Ten Hag’s Sincerity Over £172m Summer Transfer Spendings, As Red Devils Manager’s Son, Agent Kees Vos Are Fingered Behind Rasmus Hojlund and Sofyan Amrabat Moves

Manchester United staff have expressed concerns about the growing involvement of Erik ten Hag’s agent Kees Vos in transfer activity at Old Trafford.

Mail Sport can reveal that Vos’s Sports Entertainment Group have become the go-to agency in negotiating player signings and sales for United, as well as providing informal advice on the transfer market.

In another indication of the close relationship between the club and SEG, it can be disclosed that Ten Hag’s son Nigel works for the agency as an analyst.

SEG worked on player sales and signings during a busy window which saw United spend £178million on four new arrivals, with Vos a regular visitor to Old Trafford and the club’s Carrington training ground. Their work included:

Representing Rasmus Hojlund during his £72m move from Atalanta, with the Danish striker joining the company the month before signing for United.
Acting for United in negotiations over the loan signing of Sofyan Amrabat from Fiorentina in a deal which gives them the option to sign the Moroccan international permanently at the end of the season.
Selling United midfield player Zidane Iqbal to Utrecht in June just two months after the 20-year-old had joined the agency from rivals CAA Base.SEG’s growing influence has been noted by other agents unhappy at what they perceive as losing out on potential deals due to the link with Ten Hag.

Despite such complaints, SEG are a globally renowned business, with 600 athletes on their books. The Netherlands-based company have also developed close links with Manchester City, as leading Spanish agent Pere Guardiola joined the company 18 months ago, bringing with him his brother Pep as a star client.As the leading Dutch agency, SEG were previously involved in bringing Robin van Persie, Memphis Depay and Daley Blind to United, but their involvement at the club had dried up until they orchestrated the deal that led to Ten Hag’s appointment as manager in May 2022.

Of United’s 45 intermediary transactions published by the FA between February 2022 and January 2023, which includes every contract issued by the club during that period, SEG are not listed once.

Ten Hag has previously been criticised for his tendency to focus on signing players he has already worked with. Antony and Lisandro Martinez both followed him from Ajax last year.