Slaven Bilic believes that player power is very real in modern football. But he also insists there are some clubs who can stand up to powerful players and agents.

Bilic was speaking about transfers and player power during an appearance on the Sky Sports program Money Night Football. He helped provide pre and post-match analysis of the game between Swansea City and Liverpool, which ended as a 1-0 Swansea win.

He was asked whether players hold most of the power in transfer negotiations:

"Absolutely. You still have some clubs in Europe that are bigger than the players," he said.

"Those are clubs with a history of being hard clubs, like Juventus. No Juve player is bigger than the club. Manchester United is also a club like that.

"The clubs who are getting good players because they have a bit of money but are not big, big clubs, the players soon become bigger than the club.

"Today, players and agents are basically dictating to the clubs," he added. "The clubs and the agents have to work together and as a manger you are almost depending on them.

"It's a very complex job but at the end of the day you are in football. You are doing what you want to do and when you win it's unbelievable. Of course when you lose you are down but you are well paid for it."