Former Manchester United Young Player Uses ChatGPT To Negotiate Transfer: AI Becomes Best Agent

JAKARTA - Former Manchester United young player, Mitchell's geometry, claims that he used the artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ChatGPT, when negotiating his move to League One club, Leyton Orient.

He said that the software had become his best agent to date.

Mitchell started his career at Old Trafford by appearing once in the league before playing for Hearts, Blackpool, Hibernian, and Exeter City.

This summer, the 28-year-old left Exeter to join Orient on a free transfer.

He said that dealing with the move without agents was an unprecedented move in professional football.

"They (Ligh Orient) sent me an offer. I started using ChatGPT, asked how to negotiate an agreement and what to write in it."

"This is my condition last season, moving to London, living expenses, my wife will move with me and my daughter."

"I also think I'm a little more valuable, but you don't want to be like that. I think I should be worth X."

"Then, because I didn't use the agent, I got that (agent fee) as a signing fee."

"An agent might give me a few hundred more pounds as in this deal not much money is circulating, the amount isn't too big."

"So, agents might give me a few hundred more. Then the percentage I have to pay to them, the difference, will end too," Mitchell said on the podcast From My Left.

Mitchell also criticized agents in football. He said that there are still many representation options open to lower league football players that need to be improved.

"There are three types of agents. There are agents working for an agency, who only receive salaries. Then, agents number two, work for big agencies and they try to recruit young prospects that are on the rise. Once you are no longer one of those prospects, they are not interested."

"Then, agents number three, have their own business, (which) are just hungry for money. So, they just want to move anywhere and anywhere quickly."

"When you're in the lower league, it's hard to get a good agent because that's all you have to work for," he said.

Mitchell has played for the young England team from U-16 to U-20 and is in the early 60th squad for Jamaica ahead of the 2025 Gold Cup.

He has made eight appearances at Brisbane Road this season, but has yet to score his first goal for the club.