Source: Daily_Mail
Martinez slams 'corrupt' agents after Sunderland's pursuit of Figueroa
Roberto Martinez has accused agents of corruption in a blistering attack on Sunderland over their pursuit of Maynor Figueroa. [LNB]The Wigan boss called on the Premier League to investigate agents' actions in the January transfer window - and called for it to be abolished.[LNB]Black Cat pursuit: Maynor Figueroa is wanted by Sunderland [LNB] In a furious outburst, he said: 'You can see that some agents are an unhealthy corruption in the game. [LNB]'You can understand why he's been affected but the authoritiesshould look into the transfer window and why the agents have thispower and have this unhealthy control in the game with the backing ofa Premier League football club and that' s disgusting. [LNB]'Unhappy is notthe right word. I'm disgusted. The authorities should look into this. [LNB]'I'm saying that what's clear is that everything that's been in the papers, we had two insulting bids for the player, the player's not forsale and the times that any bid was a good bid for Wigan are gone. [LNB]'We've made it clear that we're not going to sell any of our bestperformer and when you don't want to take 'no' for an answer andyou're going to carry on pushing that situation, that's clearcorruption in the game.[LNB] 'We're going to look into it and it's going to be really hard toprove anything. We can watch a few weeks back managers complaining anddoing exactly the same thing behind the scenes and the whole thing ishard to take.' [LNB]Figueroa was the Wigan defender who lost Nikola Kalinic when the Blackburn striker headed in his side's winner last night. [LNB]And Martinez added: 'Concentration in football is vital and it'shard enough when you have got everything in place. When you have thesesorts of distractions, it really costs points. The corner, he isMaynor's man and he has got a free header. You can understand why hehas been affected. This kind of distraction costs football matches.'[LNB] Blackburn 2 Wigan 1: Allardyce's rant brings the best out of Gamst Pedersen Everton 2 Sunderland 0: Moyes eyes Europe as Donovan breaks duckWIGAN ATHLETIC FC
