Super-agent Jorge Mendes boasts of having most customers in Russia

Jorge Paulo Agostinho Mendes, better known as Jorge Mendes, is known in the football world as a "super-agent".

He was looking to get started After being turned down by a number of Portuguese football clubs, he gave up his quest for professional football, opened a bar and started working as a DJ while running a video rental shop. in the northwest. Portugal.

Now he oversees the sale of players for a living, while arranging for others to be sent on loan, as he did with videos in his first career. .

The 52-year-old Portuguese is one of the most influential football agents in the world and was named best agent of the year at Globe Soccer Wards from 2010 to 2015. Globe Soccer Wards, organized by The European Association of Players Agents, celebrates excellence in football.

At the current FIFA World Cup ™, Mendes has the highest number of high profile customers. He is Portugal's agent and Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United goalkeeper and Spain's David de Gea and his compatriot Diego Costa, striker of Atletico Madrid, as well only from Colombia and Bayern Munich star James Rodriguez.

He also works as an agent for Manchester United coach Jose Mourinho.

Ronaldo was kicked out of the World Cup in disappointment for the fourth time on Saturday and he declined to comment on his international career. "This is not the time to talk about the future of players and coaches," said Ronaldo, furious, after his team's 2-1 defeat against Uruguay in the round of 16 .

In 2009, Mendes oversaw the 80 million euros (about 9.3 billion shillings according to current exchange rates) pbad from Manchester United to Real Madrid in what was the world's most expensive transfer at that time.

In 2011, the Portuguese oversaw £ 18.9 million (2.133 billion) transfer from Atletico Madrid to Manchester United, a British record for a goalkeeper at the time.

Last year, Mendes negotiated the transfer of £ 57 million from Chelsea to Atletico Madrid from where he had left for London in 2014.

And in 2014, Mendes was responsible Rodriguez transfer of £ 71m (9.99bn shillings) to Real Madrid from Monaco, making the Colombian the fourth most expensive transfer ever after Gareth Bale, Ronaldo and Luis Suarez.

Mendes also traded the £ 21 million Maria (2.78 billion Sh) from Benfica to Real Madrid in 2014.

He also manages Iranian coach Carlos Quiroz. His other clients who are not at the World Cup are the Portuguese Ricardo Quaresma, Renato Sanchez and Luis Nani.

Carmine & # 39; Mino & # 39; Raiola, a Dutch football agent of Italian origin, represents Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Romelu Lukaku, Blaise Matuidi, Paul Pogba, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Marco Verratti, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Mario Balotelli.

Only three of his big clients, Pogba (he joined Manchester United of Juventus in 2016 for 11.7 billion shillings), Matuidi (joined Juventus of PSG for Sh2.4bn in 2017) and Lukaku (joined Manchester United of Everton last year for Sh9.92bn), are still at the World Cup until here.