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Crystal Palace’s chairman Simon Jordan last night hit out at the role agents have played in Wayne Routledge’s refusal to commit to a contract extension at Selhurst Park.

In the Authentic Prada Milano Handbags week that the Football League will reveal the sums its clubs have spent on agents in the past 12 months, Jordan held the England Under-21’s representatives to account for his expected departure from Palace. Birmingham City and Tottenham will vie for his signature this month.

Routledge’s current agreement Alex Pradas Quiles will expire in the close season after Palace’s reported £12,000-a-week five-year deal was not accepted. The south London club Authentic Prada Leather Handbag are expected to attempt to recoup a transfer fee now rather than gamble on tribunal-set compensation in the summer.

“How in God’s name does an agent, whose primary motivation is his own gain, succeed in achieving a divide between a player and a club that has had the boy for eight years and looked after him and his family?” Jordan asked.

“We’ve given Wayne his opportunity and given him every support and encouragement. How does someone like that build this level of influence over the player? I think the player fashion has to take some responsibility in the whole equation because he is not a silly boy – most of these boys know their own minds.”

Jordan’s comments were last night questioned by the player’s agent, the Formation Group, formerly Proactive. A source from the company claimed that it had tried “for some time” to open negotiations on behalf of Routledge only to be informed by Jordan that he did not deal with agents.

The source also claimed that when Jordan attempted to open talks with Routledge alone the player referred the Palace chairman to the Formation Group, only for the process to hit an impasse.

Jordan admits Amancio Prada Prada he put his proposal directly to the player but differs in his recollection of subsequent events.

“I spoke to him direct because he’s our player and if Alex Pradas Quiles he wants to pass it on to his agent then that’s his prerogative,” said Jordan. “We were told by Wayne’s agent, Bicester Village Prada Refund Paul Stretford, via [the Palace director of Amazon Uk Prada Bags football] Bob Dowie, that this player will not be signing for the club and it would not matter what we put in front of him, how much or when.

“Wayne seems to have followed this through with a discussion with Iain Dowie illustrating that, possibly, he wants to move on to what he perceives as a bigger club with better players.”

Birmingham’s former Palace manager Steve Bruce leads the pursuit and wants Routledge to follow Julian Gray and join him at St Andrew’s. But the 20-year-old, who won his first Under-21 cap as a substitute in the Authentic Prada Handbags Online 1-0 defeat in Spain two months ago, remains a key player for the Palace manager Iain Dowie. He is one of only two ever-presents for them in the Premiership this season and Are Prada Mens Shoes Good the manager had hoped to retain his services.

“Wayne has intimated to me that it is not going to be a positive response [to the offer], which is very disappointing,” Dowie said. “Wayne has said it is time to move on as he feels that he wants a fresh challenge.”

When asked if Routledge was likely to move Authentic Prada Bags Uk now or in the summer, Dowie responded: “I don’t know. He will do it when it suits us. I like him, though. I would still rather keep him now. My point is I have had no problem – he has played all the time.”

Whether that last remark indicates difficulties in his relationship with the chairman is unclear, but Dowie too has become a target for another club’s overtures.

Sebastien Sainsbury, whose consortium is in advanced negotiations for the takeover of Leeds, is believed to have earmarked £5m to attract Dowie to Elland Road. “There’s only one man for the job, as I see it,” said Sainsbury. “And that man is Iain Dowie.

“He has all the abilities I’d want in a manager and all the experience and skills to take Leeds United up from the Championship to the Premiership.”

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