Oct 12, 2025, 12:27 PM ETDemetri Mitchell used an unusual form of assistance when negotiating his move to Leyton Orient.\u00a0Pete Norton\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Former Manchester United<\/a> youth prospect Demetri Mitchell<\/a> has claimed he used AI platform ChatGPT when negotiating his move to League one side Leyton Orient<\/a>, saying that the software has been his “best agent to date.”<\/p>\n Mitchell began his career at Old Trafford, going on to make one league appearance for the club before spells at Hearts<\/a>, Blackpool<\/a>, Hibernian<\/a> and Exeter City<\/a>.<\/p>\n This summer, the 28-year-old left Exeter to join Orient on a free transfer and has said he navigated the move without an agent, a largely unprecedented move in professional football.<\/p>\n “They [Leyton Orient] sent me an offer, and I started using ChatGPT, asking it how to negotiate a deal, and what to say in it,” Mitchell said on the From My Left podcast.<\/p>\n “This is what I was on last season, moving to London, cost of living, missus is gonna move down with me, my little one. I did think I was worth a little bit more as well, but you don’t want to be like that, ‘Oh, yeah I think I should be worth an X amount.’<\/p>\n “And then, also because I didn’t use the agent, I get that [agent fee] as a signing-on fee. [An] agent might have got me a couple hundred pound more, because in these deals there’s not loads of money going on, it’s not big, big amounts.<\/p>\n “So the agent might have got me a couple hundred more, and then the percent that I would have to pay them, the difference, is going to be eaten up anyway.”<\/p>\n Mitchell also launched a wider critique on agents in football and said that the options for representation open to lower-league footballers leaves a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n “There’s three types of agents,” he said.<\/p>\n – ChatGPT action figure trend takes on Messi, Ronaldo, more<\/a> “There’s the agent that works for an agency, who’s just getting a salary, then you got agent number two, who works for a big agency and they’re trying to sign young, up-and-coming prospects and then once you’re not one of them prospects anymore, they’re not interested.<\/p>\n “And then there’s agent number three, the one that’s got their own business, [that are] just money-hungry … So they just want to get moves anywhere and anywhere fast.<\/p>\n “When you’re in the lower leagues, it’s difficult to get a good agent, because that’s all you’ve got to work with.”<\/p>\n Mitchell has played for England<\/a> youth teams ranging from the Under-16s to U20s and made the preliminary 60-man squad for Jamaica<\/a> ahead of the 2025 Gold Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n He has made eight appearances at Brisbane road this season but is yet to get his first goal for the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 12, 2025, 12:27 PM ETDemetri Mitchell used an unusual form of assistance when negotiating his move to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-219791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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