Rune Hauge (player agent)

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Photo of Rune Hauge after a Tottenham Hotspur game (Summer 1993)

Rune Hauge (born April 23, 1954 ) is a Norwegian player and sports rights broker.

Hauge gained greater public recognition in English football as an agent for the players John Jensen and Pål Lydersen , as well as his role in the transfer of the two footballers to Arsenal in the early 1990s . Part of the deal was Hauge's side payment of 425,000 British pounds to George Graham , who as Arsenal coach forced Jensen and Lydersen to sign up for his club. Graham was later found guilty of accepting an "unsolicited gift" by the English Football Association and given a year-long professional ban. As a result of the scandal, the world football association FIFA and the Premier League began to insist that football clubs only work with licensed intermediaries.

Hauge himself received a life ban from FIFA in 1995, which was later reduced to two years. After he got his license back, he continued his profession and from then on looked after a number of Norwegian footballers, including Ole Gunnar Solskjær , Steffen Iversen and Eirik Bakke .

In addition, he was again involved in financially very lucrative transfer deals - such as the £ 18 million move from Rio Ferdinand from West Ham United to Leeds United - and in the controversial transfer of John Obi Mikel . In the last-mentioned transfer conflict, at the center of which were Chelsea and Manchester United , Hauge, like other agents, claimed the young Nigerian's rights of representation.

Hauge's company Profile Media mediates television rights for professional sports in Norway and Sweden. Since 2005, Hauge has repeatedly hit the headlines through brokerage deals, some in the billions of crowns .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rune Hauge, international man of mystery. The Guardian , March 18, 2000 (Eng.)
  2. ↑ FIFA announcement of December 12, 1995, accessed on January 23, 2012
  3. ↑ Ny gullavtale for Rune Hauge. VG Nett from April 1, 2006 (Norwegian)
  4. ↑ Rune Hauge fikset TV 2s OL-avtale. BT.no from June 17, 2011 (Norwegian)
personal data
SURNAME Hauge, rune
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian player and sports rights broker
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1954