Football is a fertile ground for the business community, so the challenge for player agents is very exciting and can bring in huge profits if the right skills are bet.
Players' agents derive their strength from managing the actions of their agents and leading their negotiations with various parties, in addition to mediating between clubs to implement and succeed transfers deals, and these actions allow to achieve huge profits behind the scenes away from the lights that usually turn towards players and stars.
This report, published by the French "90 minutes" website, reviews the ranking of the most influential agents of football players in the world, according to the market value of the ten best players on their client list.
Benny Zahavi: (191.8 million euros)
Israeli Zahavi differs from all other agents. He was a journalist and joined the world of business agents late. For this reason, the top ten clients for him today do not exceed their market value of 200 million euros, as the market value of the Polish player Robert Lewandowski reaches 56 million, while the value of the English star Crystal Palace and Wilfred is approximately 44 million, while the market value of the Brazilian player Alex Teles does not exceed 32 million.
Volker Ströt: (230 million euros)
Ströt is at the forefront of player agents in Germany, and he has at least one client in 16 of the 18 clubs in the Bundesliga. The business is managed by a number of stars, including Real Madrid player Toni Kroos, who has a market value of approximately 48 million euros, and Borussia Dortmund player Marco Royce, with a market value of 32 million euros.
Jonathan Barnett: (371.5 million Euros)
ranked Jonathan Barnett in the ranking of the largest players agents in the world for 2019 according to Forbes magazine, and owns the Stellar Group, which has branches in England and Spain.
In the recent period, Barnett became the agent of Spanish player Saul Neges, who has a market value of 72 million euros, and is considered an agent for Chelsea Mason Mont with a market value of 40.5 million euros, and Aston Villa, English star Jack Greelish with a market value of approximately 30 million euros.
Barnett started out of football and took over the business of cricket legend Brian Lara, before he stormed into the world of the Round Witch and became the agent of Real Madrid star Gareth Bale.
Jorge Mendes: (456 million euros)
estimated the personal wealth of the Portuguese Jorge Mendes at 100 million euros, and thus ranks among the list of the richest men in his country. The value of the transfers of the players, who assumed the role of mediation between them and a group of clubs during his career, exceeded one billion euros.
It is clear that Cristiano Ronaldo played a big role in Mendez's success, just like the Porto and Chelsea clubs, which allowed him to establish many ties at the beginning of his career.
Mendes currently manages the business of a number of stars, including his compatriot Bernardo Silva, who has a market value of 80 million euros, and Colombian James Rodriguez, whose market value is 32 million euros.
Mino Raiola: (475 million euros)
Raiola was born in Haarlem in the north of the Netherlands, and is considered a prominent entrepreneur, graduated from the Law Institute, and began his career as a waiter with a pizzeria owned by his father.
In order to keep pace with the changes taking place in the global market, Raiola learned to speak in seven languages, and founded the Sportman agency that has offices in Europe and South America, and was the owner of the most expensive transfer deal in the world during the summer of 2016 when the Frenchman Paul Pogba moved from Juventus to Manchester United English for 105 Millions of euros, and newspapers reported that he received a huge commission from the deal, estimated at 27 million euros.
Raiola - who holds both Italian and Dutch nationalities - manages the business of a number of stars, among them the Norwegian Erling Halland, who has a market value of 72 million euros, and Dutchman Mattis de Licht, which has a value of 67.5 million euros, as well as the Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnaroma with a market value of 49.5 million euros .