I don't know why they aren't waving the fee entirely just to get the €30m they owe him off their books.
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I don't know why they aren't waving the fee entirely just to get the €30m they owe him off their books.
We all know about Mendes' relationship with Wolves, where his client Nuno Espiritu Santo has signed numerous outstanding Gestifute players.
Wiki reminded me of quite how long-standing, and how deep, the Mendes-Mourinho relationship is.
I'm suspicious of the role of super-agents in modern football, and don't much like it.
But it's clear that knowing with certainty a player genuinely wants to sign for your club, and for your coach, makes doing a deal far more likely. Mendes might play games with Levy, but I'm fairly certain he'd be straight with Mourinho.
Whilst we have that Mourinho-Mendes relationship in the club, for better or worse, I hope we exploit it to end up with more than Matt Doherty....
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In 2004, Mendes brokered José Mourinho's move from Porto to manage Chelsea, despite Mourinho already having an agent, José Baidek, whom Mourinho had known since his time at União de Leiria and who had reportedly lined up a move to Liverpool.[12] Mourinho and Mendes negotiated with the agent Pini Zahavi, who acted as Chelsea's representative.[13]
The deal established Mendes' importance. He built up a roster of the leading Portuguese players and every Portuguese player that followed Mourinho to Chelsea was a client of Mendes, including Ricardo Carvalho, Paulo Ferreira, Tiago and Maniche.[12] Mendes was paid by Chelsea to act for the player and for the club.[14]
GestiFute was also involved in part-owning the economic rights of a number of these players. In July 2003, Porto bought 20% of Brazilian-born Portuguese professional footballer Deco's rights from GestiFute in exchange for €2.25 million, plus 5% of the economic rights for Ricardo Carvalho and Paulo Ferreira. Shortly afterwards, GestiFute sold a further 15% of Deco's economic rights to the club, this time in return for €1.25 million and 10% of striker Benni McCarthy's rights.[15]
After Mourinho's departure from Chelsea in September 2007,[16] Mendes oversaw his move to Inter Milan in 2008 for a fee that made him the highest paid coach in the world,[10] and then, in May 2010, that which saw him move from Inter to become Real Madrid's manager on a four-year contract worth £40 million
Jorge Mendes - Wikipedia
You only have to watch the Watford friendly to work that out. Granted it was a friendly but the difference in quality of the players between the 1st XI and 2nd is frightening.
Put him at LB just to troll Danny.
20m salary and 20m fee is 40m for one year... over 3 years it's 80m minimum. Anything but cheap.
You could also switch Bale / Stevie B into Sonny’s usual wide position and put Sonny up top for games of Kane is injured.
Sadly, too expensive, but would suit the all-or-nothing short-term viewpoint of Jose.
Well if it too expensive then we obviously dont do it.
Part of making a Bale deal is that the finances are reduced enough to make it worthwhile.
Genuine question.
Since when did Milik become a striker? iirc he played his entire career as LW.
Since when did Milik become a striker? iirc he played his entire career as LW.
Since Ajax? Always see him as a striker.
He was never anything else that pure 9, though he's versatile enough to fit in other positions. There is no way someone steals Lewandowski's position in Polish national team, but Milik is 2nd best player in that squad and was forced to play as a 10, false 9, winger, etc. With mixed results, but wasn't terrible either. As LW though he is definitely the worst from all these listed.
I think there is zero chance we are going to sign him, the price is definitely higher that every single one striker we've been linked to this window. Over 30m easily, including Levy's masterclass.
Reports suggest their willing to sell him, worth a punt ?
Ok... now we're talking
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They would definitely be excited. He’s the polar opposite of Rose’s players you have to Google. Kane would be buzzing to play with him I reckon.
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Why not?
