Superagent and Nedvěd’s friend Raiol were buried prematurely by the media

Agents Jorge Mendes and Mino Raiola are the biggest part of the football market, Pini Zahavi used to belong to the big three.

Of the three, Raiol was always the most visible in the media, a guy who was never far from a sharper comment. For example, he called Sepp Blatter, when he was president of FIFA, a “senile dictator.”

Raiola is behind the careers of Pavel Nedvěd, Zlatan Ibrahimovice, Paul Pogby, Erling Haaland… “He has the best players. And it’s not a coincidence. He always stands by the players and can negotiate the best conditions for them, “says Jiří Müller, Raiol’s friend and co-worker.

On Thursday afternoon, word spread on Twitter that Raiola had died. She even appeared on the Gazzetta dello Sport website.

Müller, as well as other associates of Mino Raiola from his agency, but did not confirm the false report of the death of the popular agent.

At that time, the football guru was in the care of doctors at St. Raphael in Milan. He is battling cancer, underwent his first operation in January, and has now been hospitalized again.

A message appeared on Raiol’s Twitter account that could be freely translated: “I hope I’ve found everyone who has buried me for the second time in the last four months.”

During his career, Raiola found himself almost “on knives” with greats such as Alex Ferguson or Pep Guardiola. Years ago, he did not agree with Paul Pogby to stay in Old Trafford with the first, and they argued with the second over Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

But the players themselves usually can’t praise Raiola. For example, Pavel Nedvěd. When the list of News and I were filming My Places four years ago at the Juventus Stadium in Turin, Mino Raiola suddenly appeared on the scene – look here.

“Paul? He’s a fanatic. He does things one hundred percent or not, “the famous microphone agent told us. And Nedvěd recalled persuading Raiol years ago to move from Lazio to Juventus. “I did not want to at first. But Mino pushed me to take that one more important step in my career and compete with the really best. ”

Raiol’s parents ran a pizzeria in Haarlem, the Netherlands. And Mino started selling Dutch footballers to Italy. The first was Bryan Roy, who moved from Ajax to Foggie in 1992. And there Raiola met the Czech coach Zdeněk Zeman.

Nedvěda recommended him to transfer to Lazio. Together with the Czech agent Zdeněk Nehoda, Raiola was behind Nedvěd’s entire career after leaving Sparta. “No footballer in the world has ever worked as hard as Nedvěd. That’s his big advantage, “Raiola repeated happy about his favorite.

The great goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, Henrikh Mchitarjan, Romelu Lukaku and Mario Balotelli also appeared on the list of Raiol’s clients.

While other agents aim to enter into tripartite agreements with clubs and players, Raiola does not spare clubs in negotiations. “She can find out what money they really have available. And if his players really want to, he gets the money from them. Not for himself, but for the players, “Jiří Müller explains the magic of his famous teacher.

But even Raiola himself does not stay out of the game when money starts to fly through the air. The 20 million euros he earned as a commission when Pogba and his fanfare returned from Juventus to Manchester United entered a history of football.

The whole world is now anxiously awaiting which big club Mino Raiola will direct his current biggest star, a super-shooter from Dortmund named Erling Haaland.

Therefore, if Raiol’s health condition allows him to continue to develop his clients’ spectacular football careers, as well as his own.