The agents have fought this hard, because clubs have always paid them, with most players oblivious to the arrangement.
In places it can sound like all 23 players, oblivious of one another, are busy with their own lines of counterpoint.
First the diminutive Karadeniz was permitted to amble away from Ake and nod in Cristian Ansaldi's looped cross, both Paulo Ferreira and David Luiz oblivious to the Turkish player's burst between them, with the ball squeezing through Cech's attempt to save.
Hibs players were oblivious to the violent scenes as they were caught up in the adulation of fans.
Some players are oblivious to the method of listening to the bats' vibrations, but others are at least familiar with it.
Even when Miller brought up something as seemingly straightforward as the baseball-card business, the players were oblivious of their worth.
And were the big players really so oblivious to the horrors they were about to unleash?
But back on American soil at Indian Wells, he was cheered similarly to almost any other American player, by fans perhaps oblivious or ambivalent toward his past transgressions.
Was this a signal to fellow basketball players, the most politically oblivious group of athletes, that it was O.K. to play a more active part in cultural and political affairs, including the electoral process?
But he also created an image for himself as a quirky player who could be almost oblivious to what was going on around him -- in the clubhouse, for sure, but sometimes it seemed in the field and on the basepaths.
Player hunched over their computers, oblivious to the crowd and the gargantuan screen dangling above their heads.
