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Player Agent Ward Leaving Impact Sports Management To Set Up Own Business

The "delay in Raheem Sterling signing a new contract with Liverpool coincides with big changes at Impact Sports Management," which represents the England player, according to Charles Sale of the London DAILY MAIL. Agent Aidy Ward "is in the process of leaving Impact to set up his own business and is taking Sterling and West Brom striker Saido Berahino with him." Another England int'l, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain of Arsenal, "may follow." There "has been speculation for some time that Ward, who works closely with that trio, would break away from the Rob Segal-run operation." Ward’s new company "will also have athletics and boxing clients." Rising British heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua, an Olympic Gold Medalist, "was linked with Ward before he turned professional." There "will be short-term complications in any new deal involving Sterling or Berahino because of their current representation contracts with Impact," which looks after nearly 200 players. Segal: "Everything is being worked out between myself and Aidy in a very amicable fashion, despite some in our industry suggesting otherwise. Aidy wants to go it alone and I can understand the reasons but we will continue to work together when it suits us" (DAILY MAIL, 1/28).

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