The Footballer Who Cost £833,000 Per Minute

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Jean-Kevin Augustin was once one of the most coveted teenagers in football. He started his career at PSG before, despite interest from some of the biggest clubs, moving to RB Leipzig. But it was his move to Leeds United that caused the most controversy.
Three substitute appearances, three years of bitter legal disputes, and a settlement worth millions. This is the story of the strangest Premier League transfer.
Written by Seb Stafford-Bloor. Illustrated by Marco Bevilacqua.
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@listey 10 ай бұрын

With such great businessmen in charge it's no wonder Leeds are consistently such a footballing powerhouse.

@celtic69 10 ай бұрын

Should we have spent so heavily in the past, probably not, but we lived the dream, we enjoyed the dream!

@paulg8524 10 ай бұрын

you hate us because you aint us MOT

@user-jv2tw1no8x 10 ай бұрын

@@celtic69and now back to familiar surroundings

@brendanmostek4723 10 ай бұрын

I've been waiting for this ome ever since they mentioned it on the podcast

@purpledragons1146 10 ай бұрын

@@celtic69I wouldn't call getting to a couple of semi-finals and winning nothing living the dream. Leeds United lived the dream under Don Revie

@mightymoeish 10 ай бұрын

I remember him on FIFA 19 career. Absolutely deadly mid-table legend.

@airongmc6810 10 ай бұрын

The silhouette looked like sadio mané

@luisho43 10 ай бұрын

It is Sadio

@Sangram_Raorane 7 ай бұрын

ikrrr

@itsactuallysanama 10 ай бұрын

I thought it was Sadio Mane for a second

@gedwin5444 9 ай бұрын

Me too😂

@SouthsideSox007 9 ай бұрын

Came looking for this 😂

@guyseabrook 9 ай бұрын

Hoped I wasn't the only one 😂

@Dropz_RSA 9 ай бұрын

Maybe it is. They just want us to argue with ourselves.

@mrdptracey9238 9 ай бұрын

Hairline and that

@aadesh7 10 ай бұрын

Welcome to the ridiculous world of Victor Orta contracts. His legacy very much continues to haunt Leeds even after his departure with as many as 7 first team players leaving on free loans after relegation leaving Leeds with no money to recover from outgoings post relegation. He was a bizarre man and where ever he goes he of going to bring a mountain of chaos if left unchecked. A warning for Sevilla fc.

@Eibarwoman 10 ай бұрын

Pretty sure he was behind the eventual financial disaster that was Elche which kept Eibar up despite finish Eibar being 18th in points without Elche's financial issues. Edit: As in Elche was firmly mid-table but Orta had overspent to the point the team had financial problems with inability to pay both taxes and salaries at least prior to the points penalty that kept the Basque club that was in the relegation positions up as Elche decided to pay their taxes instead of their players which led to a massive points penalty.

@steve10 10 ай бұрын

How this guy is still working in football is a disgrace. You can guarantee he probably was paid a huge fee for orchestrating a mandatory transfer fee on the loan , he probably got money for all the players that left when relegated. Why are clubs employing someone like this , its quite clear his contract arrangements for players come with too many clauses that depend on the future of the club, its like Leeds didn't learn from spending money based on the future of the club back in the early 2000's. You shouldn't be buying any player based on future promotions or relegations , its like gambling on red or black at the casino , most times you end up losing, which seems to be the case with the clubs he is involved in.

@NeoChaosX 10 ай бұрын

As a San Francisco 49ers fan, I'm shocked, SHOCKED that another team owned by the York family managed to drop the ball on a front office hire.

@andrasszabo1570 10 ай бұрын

@@NeoChaosX He left months before 49ers Enterprises took over Leeds. There are too many major and minor investors to say that the York family owns Leeds United anyway.

@backtopurrrfectagain6681 9 ай бұрын

Well, it already happened. Several Sevilla's players are going to leaves, for free agents if I'm not mistake. They can't offering good "number" to convince them to stay.

@Therealone27 10 ай бұрын

Great to see the old Tifo voiceover back even if not regularly

@CJ_Yo_ 10 ай бұрын

Either the Leeds hierarchy didn't think they would get promoted, or took a huge gamble on a player in decline and it didn't work out. I'm still as confused by the decision to pay that much for the player now as I was then.

@control2XS 10 ай бұрын

That's Orta for you, he has a HUGE ego. He wouldn't have seen it as a gamble, he'd have seen it as unearthing a player everyone else had given up on and a genius move. This was by far his worst, but it's just one in a number of decisions like this that ultimately destroyed everything Bielsa built.

@VillaBoys123 10 ай бұрын

"On the decline." He was 23 with one bad season behind him. It was idiotic and wreckless but kind of made sense. What followed with the underhand weaseling out of it was the disgrace.

@GuinessOriginal 10 ай бұрын

The loan agreement was nonsense, the statement to sign him upon promotion should have been conditional on him playing a certain number of games and minutes

@adrimute 10 ай бұрын

@@GuinessOriginalBingo! Leeds need better lawyers.

@ItsJesssee 10 ай бұрын

Fair to say it was remarkable business by Leeds absolutely fantastic stuff more to come 🙏🏾

@Tom-qb1rj 10 ай бұрын

Played 40 minutes for them and finessed 25 mil from them lmao. Crazy

@LegendNinja41 10 ай бұрын

And now enjoying life and luxury in Basel, Switzerland. W Scam.

@nathancook2852 10 ай бұрын

@@LegendNinja41 How is it a scam? Leeds agreed to that stupid deal.

@LegendNinja41 10 ай бұрын

@@nathancook2852 its just a meme to use ''W Scam'' in these typ of situations because they got ''finessed'' so to speak.

@ImBarryScottCSS 9 ай бұрын

@@LegendNinja41r/stonks

@moneywalts 10 ай бұрын

Jean-Kevin Augustin couldn’t hit the heights so he swindled his way to the bag. What a legend 😭😭

@thibautnarme6402 9 ай бұрын

Yeah that's the player's fault that his future club drudgery left him in professional limbo, without his due (that is his contract with RB or the agreed contract with Leeds). Everybody blames the player fir trying to get what they can, but nobody questions how such "professional" organizations fails to evaluate and adequately pay talent...

@alexnils6984 9 ай бұрын

Leeds tried to take advantage of the covid to swindle of both Leipzig and Augustin. They basically waste to years of everybody's time and peace of mind for 18 millions. It's just money for the club but years of career drawbacks for a young player

@wanmanrmy 9 ай бұрын

@@thibautnarme6402exactly, everyone complains about players wanting to leave clubs mid-contract but never criticise clubs for failing to adhere to the requirements of their contracts.

@rayandinho978 6 ай бұрын

bros a genius ong 🥶🥶

@govindmurali4841 10 ай бұрын

That Stranger Transfers graphic was dope.

@NIDELLANEUM 9 ай бұрын

Imagine starting your career as being such a promising talent that you manage to outshine *Mbappé*, and then your impact on the sport is being a weird case of a player who underperformed so badly that two teams went to court to pay his wages because none of them wanted you

@harveyholmes9533 9 ай бұрын

I think this video ignores quite an important detail which is that Augustin has since been diagnosed with long covid and a different illness which greatly impacts muscle fatigue. I think this matters because Augustin often gets painted as just a dud player who’s fluked a £25 million pay day from Leeds when in reality his career has suffered greatly from being a pawn between these two clubs and arguably resulted in the diagnoses of his illness taking so long to come to light, even as a Leeds fan I think how he’s been treated as a result of this poor business has been poor on both clubs accounts.

@jtaco4101 9 ай бұрын

Nah dudes a bum, he's found his level in the swiss league.

@henryhealy 10 ай бұрын

I’m amazed the unpaid wages ruling went in his favour. It was agreed between Leipzig, Leeds and himself that he would sign for a third club. They didn’t just put him with the reserves and not pay him.

@iloveshrek3591 10 ай бұрын

Probably because he was told that he wouldn’t be paid by either club when the case was ongoing. He could have stuck around unpaid or left.

@FifaForumOnline 10 ай бұрын

Was on a new contract whilst he was at Nantes, Leeds didn’t pay him after the “contracted ended”

@ChrisHockman 10 ай бұрын

It’s odd that they then didn’t insist that Leeds must have been owed a fee.

@nathancook2852 10 ай бұрын

He had no choice at the time but to sign a new contract, otherwise, neither team would be paying him. I think it is completely reasonable that Leeds should pay him the agreed upon wages. That was wrong and stupid on their part to try to back out of the deal.

@ralfrudi3963 10 ай бұрын

It was not really an agreement between him, Leipzig and Leeds. Fifa had decided that he was allowed to sign for a third club because those legal disputes take years to complete and it being unreasonable to expect a professional football player to sit at home for a couple of years which would effectively end his career. Augustin would have prefered to earn big bucks at Leeds vs. signing a much worse contract.

@nickwall2497 10 ай бұрын

He also had a bout of long covid followed by post viral guillain barre syndrome. A friend of mine passed away from it 8 years ago

@galloyhoy 10 ай бұрын

The combination of Stafford-Bloor brains and Devine audiovisuals cannot be beaten.

@MrTrizz 10 ай бұрын

Is it me or did this story not get much media coverage at the time?

@listey 10 ай бұрын

"At the time" of what? The big news was when there was the court cases and they certainly got a lot of coverage.

@bababababababa6124 10 ай бұрын

Nah just you, even my mother knows about this 😂😂😂

@peterkwameosei-bonsu6135 10 ай бұрын

The silhouette looks very much like Sadio Mane

@WOOOPdoctorFROGhere 10 ай бұрын

when I saw the title of the video I thought it was going to be about Henri Saivet. Surely that was one of those signings that was either just a favour to an agent, or more likely to move questionable money from one shell company to another, like Abramovich used to do signing players the club had absolutely no intention of ever using

@seandelap8587 10 ай бұрын

It must be hard for a footballer to be caught up in a tug of war between clubs that don't want you then again if you're being paid a fortune for it you're not really going to care all that much for it are you

@barnaclefelching4079 10 ай бұрын

This made me feel unwell, loved it

@darylayertey6925 10 ай бұрын

Hi Guillen Barre diagnosis is an important bit of context to the story

@TabletsAndTemples 10 ай бұрын

You guys should do a story on Mathieu Flamini becoming a billionaire while sitting on the bench for Arsenal.

@user-vs9yl4lp6e 10 ай бұрын

He was quite good backup in ac milan

@tompcd1189 10 ай бұрын

Didn't rly sit on the bench though

@TabletsAndTemples 10 ай бұрын

@@tompcd1189 In 13/14 he only had 23 starts out of a possible ~50 games in all competitions. He was Arsenal's 12th choice by Premiere league starts. But then down to 20 and 19 starts the next two seasons.

@tompcd1189 10 ай бұрын

@@TabletsAndTemples 153 in total for his first spell, and then 93 in his second spell, most caps at any club he's ever played at lol

@TabletsAndTemples 10 ай бұрын

@@tompcd1189 totally, not denying that. But he was definitely an off the bench player.

@mindriot69 10 ай бұрын

That is one of those awesomely bizarre stories that comes up in sports. You couldn’t make this stuff up. ✌🏽❤️⚽️🍄

@theLonelyBandit6984 9 ай бұрын

I strongly believe that he staying at Leeds would have been of some use, especially in their second and their seasons where they struggled for goals and Bamford for paralyzingly injured.

@steven_uk 9 ай бұрын

The audio "If you enjoyed this..." at the end of the video is far louder than the rest of the video. You should check your volume levels.

@KoalaJofficial 10 ай бұрын

I terrorised people with this man in Fifa 19 when he was in RB Leipzig 😂

@user-fs1iw4ll3r 10 ай бұрын

Jesus thought about he is sadio mane before coming into the video😂

@veritasexperience7765 10 ай бұрын

Mad saga. Brilliant story!

@ImBarryScottCSS 9 ай бұрын

Certified classic case of don't hate the playa.

@thztan7492 10 ай бұрын

Nice untold story. Unique case indeed👍

@andrewforeman2168 3 ай бұрын

The only thong I could never get my around with the Jean-Kévin Augustin situation was why Leeds were made to pay him his full 5-year deal when he was only at the club for 6 months in total in the first place. Whether Leeds were obligated to buy him or not it does seem pretty bizarre to me at least that they had to settle the entire length of his contract. Especially when wasn't this done when he had already left the club? Because by the same token couldn't another player playing for another club leave that club a 12 months into a 5-year deal but turn around and say, "Even though I'm leaving of my own accord and am spearheading this move myself I want you to pay me all the wages I would of banked if I would of seen my contract out to it's natural conclusion."

@Roshmore7 10 ай бұрын

Umm is it just me or do y’all thought it was Mane from the shadow in the intro?😅

@JiTiAr35 10 ай бұрын

As Dean of 442oon becomes a Muezzin 🎶🎵SAAAAAAUDI PROOOO LEEEEEEAGUE🎶🎵

@RL- 10 ай бұрын

Immediately thought back to your Henri Saivet video 😬

@living_craft 9 ай бұрын

Augustin, the great businessman

@leonwilkinson8623 10 ай бұрын

Who thought it was sadio mane from the thumbnail😂

@kudzaisd 10 ай бұрын

l thought it was Mendy

@Wilson-md4bv 7 ай бұрын

Music: Jobii - Goldo

@evilotis01 10 ай бұрын

and here was me thinking it'd be Seth Johnson

@pharrellarts3315 9 ай бұрын

S2G Fans Know This Legend

@memofromessex 10 ай бұрын

You forgot to add that he got hit with Long COVID, so his career is likely to be financially curtailed, if not entirely.

@seemourbutts6679 10 ай бұрын

Long covid 😂😂 seriously have a look at the list of symptoms, see if you can find out how they diagnose it and then see if you still think it’s real

@Booplesnoot123 10 ай бұрын

@@seemourbutts6679 i have it and can assure you it's very real

@camlawlett4758 10 ай бұрын

I was about to say this! There's a great article on the Athletic that explains the medical side of his decline. Super sad stuff

@seemourbutts6679 10 ай бұрын

@@Booplesnoot123 ok well what are your symptoms and how were you diagnosed?

@Booplesnoot123 10 ай бұрын

@@seemourbutts6679 surprisingly enough I’m not keen to disclose detailed personal medical information to a stranger but if you’re really interested there is a mass of research and literature online you can read

@randomcon123 10 ай бұрын

I wonder how much legal cost had Leeds incurred to eventually settle on that 15.5 million fee

@benarmstrong9383 10 ай бұрын

Wow! What a story!

@mukwesamwanza1511 10 ай бұрын

You should do the emiliano sala vs cardiff city

@lungalunga1470 9 ай бұрын

Reminds of Renato Sanchez the guy is just not a goid player but somehow he has convinced Portugal, bayern and others that he is a good player

@Strangegloves 10 ай бұрын

anyone who wants a more in depht video on this i would deffo reccomed hitc sevens vid...

@FunkyMonk6 10 ай бұрын

What you haven’t included is all the legal costs involved in these challenges.

@nathancook2852 10 ай бұрын

They probably are not known.

@007Palatino 10 ай бұрын

For a second I thought the silhouette was Sadio Mane

@SZY_ 10 ай бұрын

Jean-Kevin Augustin really traumatised English football media coz I swear the story gets told every year 💀💀💀

@henrymarks1632 10 ай бұрын

Never seen it before

@MrReese 10 ай бұрын

Every year, you mean since...2022? So literally once so far? :D

@Tom-qb1rj 10 ай бұрын

Tf are you talking about

@lukemullet 10 ай бұрын

@@henrymarks1632 First I'd heard of the case too.

@00dude3 10 ай бұрын

the worst PL transfer of all time is going be brought up yes

@ianbenjamin7647 10 ай бұрын

Not me thinking it was Mané Lmao😂

@ishan07104 10 ай бұрын

Bro that fifa 19 player and s2g career mode with leeds💀💀💀💀

@KakarotOwns 10 ай бұрын

Imagine a 24m payday for basically doing nothing, Augustine really did complete football, who cares if doesn't win anything else in football lol.

@MrSniperfox29 10 ай бұрын

He did do something, he played for other teams and presumably was paid by them at the same time. He wants Leeds to pay him wages when he wasn't even at the club

@jamessudlow 10 ай бұрын

@@MrSniperfox29 he wants them to pay the wages for a contract they illegally cut short

@rayandinho978 6 ай бұрын

Augustin is a genius ong ❤

@micgreenson7308 10 ай бұрын

Though it was mane at the start in the shadow pic 😅

@wolfie7669 9 ай бұрын

I'm surprised this happened to Leeds of all teams, they've always been really good with finances 🙄

@Dropz_RSA 9 ай бұрын

😂

@kraspeed 10 ай бұрын

Was the 90k/week salary estimated/set by the court? Cause there's no way Leipzig paid him that much nor would a championship club like Leeds offer such salary even after promotion. 90k for a squad player is a reach even for top table teams and even though in player vs club situations I rather support the player, but him demanding 24mil from Leeds feels like a scam

@lukedardo9406 10 ай бұрын

Leeds and Augustin had already an agreement in case the transfer turned out permanent, which at the end is what happened. The 90k /week is the wage of that agreement I guess, and not what he was receiving at Leipzig

@jeffreychen2099 9 ай бұрын

I thought the silhouette was Sadio Mane

@hadierturk6098 5 ай бұрын

Oh my god, this is like fighting for anti-custody of the player 😂

@oscarcastro9316 9 ай бұрын

Who thought it was Sadio Mané in the cover? 😂

@algfourty9185 9 ай бұрын

And we thought Leeds' financial mismanagement ended when they plumetted down the divisions as the poster child of over-reaching your means 🤦‍♀

@Geeoorggee 10 ай бұрын

great story

@MayorSom 9 ай бұрын

Suffice to say, He’s got that elite Mbappe representative😅

@t.robinson4774 10 ай бұрын

Wasn’t Jean-Kévin Augustin subsequently diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome?

@r3drav3n 10 ай бұрын

Amazing, its almost not worth promotion with contracts like that flying around!

@mhsteamupbro 10 ай бұрын

Title made me think it was a standard Saudi contract

@ashleylawrance3793 9 ай бұрын

Has he got the whole 5 years wages even though he's still got 2 years left? Surely the court would be thinking Leeds would offload him and therefore not be paying those 2 years of wages.

@M4NA5 10 ай бұрын

At first I thought it’s João Félix.

@davesondave101 10 ай бұрын

Thought it was abt Mane cause of the silhouette on the thumbnail😅

@whiteace_t.k.o8060 10 ай бұрын

Before I watch tht silhouette looks like Manè

@VDR2612 10 ай бұрын

Mpaypal: oh are you challenging me?

@picasso8757 10 ай бұрын

I like the stranger things animation at the beginning 😂

@tredaviousbowser7931 10 ай бұрын

The shadow image on the thumbnail looked like Sadio Mane

@koofreti 9 ай бұрын

"Skillful" is misspelled somewhere in there. Great fun video tho.

@jessepinkman7417 10 ай бұрын

I thought Mane at Bayern

@bigbearrecordingstudio7921 10 ай бұрын

Perfect timing for my lunch break.

@prodjame5 9 ай бұрын

i thought the thumbnail was mane LOL

@djiogangtefouet4972 10 ай бұрын

Anyone else thought of Sadio Mane after seeing the template?

@BonelessB0n3r 10 ай бұрын

I know this one, Goldrbidge once paid a guy 7mil pounds a week

@Jayfive276 10 ай бұрын

Given Augustin has found his level at Basel I'd say both RB and Leeds dodged a bullet.

@nathancook2852 10 ай бұрын

Except that Leeds is going to have to pay him while they get nothing out of him.

@tomw6947 10 ай бұрын

@@nathancook2852Then the player should be returned to Leeds, seems crazy you have to buy a player, yet he can't/won't join the club.

@kickdowndoors 10 ай бұрын

seems like Leeds definitely got shot tbh

@nifemi_o 10 ай бұрын

@@tomw6947 Didnt you watch the video? it wasnt his choice not to join the club, they dont want him.

@tomw6947 10 ай бұрын

@@nifemi_o Not surprised when you turn up to training late, and won't put the effort in on or off the pitch.

@SamButler22 10 ай бұрын

He failed to get into the Leeds team during his loan for being "lazy" and that's why they didn't want him permanently. Didn't it turn out that he had long covid though?

@LamontGranquist 10 ай бұрын

He signed with Nantes in Oct 2020 and wasn't announced as having Long COVID until Mar 2021, so his 'lazy' period with Leeds was sometime between Jan-Oct 2020. He could have still caught COVID then and been transferred to Nantes while still suffering from it (with the medical evaluation by Nantes not being very thorough at all?) but the timing suggests he caught it after leaving Leeds. And as the video suggests he was faltering at Leipzig in 2018-19 and loaned to Monaco in 2019 where he couldn't compete for minutes. That was all before COVID existed and sounds like he caught the 'lazy' bug a couple years earlier.

@lukedardo9406 10 ай бұрын

Deals are deals. They might not want him, but if the deal was to turn the transfer permanent for 18mil in case of promotion, there is nothing that can be done about that. I don't know who has done the negotiations at Leeds, but it's definitely his fault

@SamButler22 10 ай бұрын

@@lukedardo9406 deals are deals. Leeds are right to argue for the exact wording, Leipzig are right to argue for the spirit of the deal. Lawyers who specialise in contracts exist for a reason, and I am not one.

@BLOODSHO7 9 ай бұрын

It was a long term illness Alfie of hitc 7s did a full 30 minute documentary on this with everything examined in it worth a watch for sure

@davidjones1709 10 ай бұрын

skilful spelt wrong. you guys need a proofreader :) - otherwise great vid as always.

@medbro50 9 ай бұрын

I totally thought it was mane from thel thumbnail

@tehonlyFreeman 10 ай бұрын

Lol this is especially hilarious because like every player, I remember he was massively hyped by leeds fans 😂

@TetaBall 10 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure there's a video already on this same topic?

@jamessudlow 10 ай бұрын

??? Do you think people own topics?

@alexkrycek3359 10 ай бұрын

Fantastic business Leeds 🎉

@rokka222 9 ай бұрын

skillful

@sadsixersfan. 10 ай бұрын

Hairline in the thumbnail made me think it was mane 💀

@jimi_oz 10 ай бұрын

Not gonna lie the shadow made me believe it is sadio mane 👀

@0Bennyman 8 ай бұрын

They'd need Jimmy McGill to win that case if they really think just because Covid delayed the end of the season that they didn't have to keep to the contract lmao

@BabsW 10 ай бұрын

That silhouette looks like Sadio Mané

@StillAwesome21 10 ай бұрын

I'm here before they change Skillfull to Skillful. 👋🏽

@abhishekpattanaik27 10 ай бұрын

Who saw the silhouette & thought it was Sadio Mane?

@vsolxr6248 10 ай бұрын

On the thumbnail that looks like mané

@00dude3 10 ай бұрын

Orta masterclass, good luck Sevilla Ngl Leeds did get screwed over here, players had to sign contract extension to go past the June 30th date for example

@Eibarwoman 10 ай бұрын

Orta was also the financial destroyer of Elche about 8 years ago due to his actions done as a director a couple years prior.

@nathancook2852 10 ай бұрын

No, Leeds doing shady business to try to get our of paying a legal, binding, contract. When they won promotion, the contract should have automatically kicked in, but they tried to back out.