Transfer window The Observer Agents race to depose Zahavi and Mendes in football’s Game of Thrones With Pini Zahavi now 74 and Jorge Mendes’s stable out of favour with PSG and Real Madrid, the race is on to be king of an astronomical market Football agents Kia Joorabchian, Jonathan Barnett and Mino Raiola. Jorge Mendes and Wolves: how deep does the agent’s influence run? Twelve years on Zahavi is still a huge player in the world of football agents. Football insiders claim world game is ‘endemically corrupt’ in player transfers Read more“This has done great damage to his image,” he says. Those who already work closely with the biggest spenders, as Raiola does at United or Zahavi has at Chelsea in the past, are the most likely to emerge victorious in football’s own game of thrones.

Source: The Guardian January 27, 2018 13:07 UTC