Brentford Agent Fees Drop to £12.7m as Club Rank 15th on Agent Spend

Brentford paid £12,743,523 to football agents during the FA reporting period from 4 February 2025 to 2 February 2026, according to figures released by the Football Association. That total put the Bees 15th in the Premier League, lower than most established top-half clubs and notably below the division’s biggest spenders. Chelsea topped the list on £65.1 million, while Arsenal, Aston Villa, Liverpool and Manchester City all paid more than £30 million. 

The year-on-year direction is one of the more interesting parts of the story. Brentford’s total was down from £14,762,657 in the previous reporting period, a drop of just over £2 million. That came even as the Premier League’s overall agent-fee bill rose 13%, from £409.1 million to £460.3 million. So while the league as a whole spent more on intermediaries, Brentford went the other way.

That looks especially notable when set against the amount of senior transfer business Brentford actually did. They signed goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher from Liverpool in June, midfielder Antoni Milambo from Feyenoord in July, and Jordan Henderson later that month after his Ajax exit. In August, they made Dango Ouattara their record signing, at a fee of £42 million. Whilst major exits also took place, including Bryan Mbeumo to Manchester United and captain Christian Norgaard to Arsenal.

That wider context matters because Brentford’s fee figure does not read like the number of a club throwing money around wildly, even after a significant reshaping of the squad. If anything, it points in the opposite direction. Brentford were active, but still paid less in agent fees than clubs such as Newcastle United (£20.3m), Tottenham Hotspur (£21.4m) and Wolverhampton Wanderers (£26m), and also less than newly promoted Leeds United (£14m).

There is an important FA caveat here too. The governing body says payments in the published totals may relate to transactions agreed before the start of the reporting period, which means a club’s total “will not necessarily relate directly” to the deals completed in that same window. In other words, this is a payment ledger for the period, not a simple transfer-window receipt.

Even with that caveat, the successful business from Brentford is clear. In a period that included a new goalkeeper, a new central midfielder, a high-profile veteran arrival, a club-record attacker and two major senior sales, the agent bill fell, in a league in which a majority saw increases.