Sunderland boss Gus Poyet is fed-up with Connor Wickham's agents.
Poyet has urged Wickham to determine his own future amid talk of him signing a pre-contract agreement with a foreign club in January.
He said: "Sometimes people don't want to agree. They want to play a certain way. They want to tell you we will take him to Europe so the club has to pay us less compensation.
"Fair enough, we know who we are dealing with. You know who you are dealing with for the rest of your life, not just one deal. It's not a problem, everyone has a reputation.
"Here we are talking about players, agents, family. Last time I was talking about Connor, the father was quick to reply. Now we'll see who is going to make the decision about staying at the football club or going to play abroad.
"My advice is to make the decision yourself. If he makes the decision I will respect it, good or bad."
