Curtis Davies’ agent, Phil Sproson, has recently been running to the papers in order to push on his client’s contract negotiations. As I speculated, Martin O’Neill isn’t overly impressed with this being aired in public. Go on Martin, you tell him:-

I always thought that it was private information with a contract but if the agent of a player chooses to divulge them then that’s entirely up to them.

I don’t really want to bring this into the public domain, but I think that we’ve pretty well looked after players here at this football club – both injured players and players who have done very well for the football club.

We had some conversations with the agent and really, at the end of it all, the agent knows where we stand and what we were looking at. He has chosen now to come out and tell these things and that’s entirely up to him.

There are certain guidelines but this idea that ‘he is considering his future’, I’m not so sure that that’s the brightest thing that an agent – and a player who’s controlling his agent – should be saying.

Mr. Sproson you fail so hard. If I were Curtis Davies, the only thing I’d be evaluating in the near future would be my representation.

[via Sky Sports]