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zudomiriku
08-09-2014, 12:50 PM
Jorge Mendes' clients include Radamel Falcao, Diego Costa and James Rodriguez... but agent's influence raises questions about who really owns football’s stars

* 'Super agent' Jorge Mendes boasts Angel Di Maria and James Rodriguez among his clients
* Diego Costa and Eliaquim Mangala also clients of Portuguese
* 48-year-old earned £20million from transfer negotiations with Man United this summer
* Total transfers negotiated by Mendes total over £1billion
* Mendes carries four mobile phones and is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian
* Cristiano Ronaldo described Mendes as a 'fair and honest man'
* Jose Mourinho considers Mendes the best agent in the world

Angel di Maria, James Rodriguez, Diego Costa and Manchester City’s Eliaquim Mangala are among his clients, moving clubs in the past two months alone in permanent transfers worth £208.5million.

And that does not take into account the potential £51.3m final transfer involved in Colombian striker Radamel Falcao’s move from Monaco to Manchester United.

No wonder, the charming 48-year-old Portuguese ‘super agent’ Jorge Mendes, friend and adviser to footballing stars from Cristiano Ronaldo to Jose Mourinho, has been hailed for ‘winning’ the transfer window. And not just one.

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Super-agent: Jorge Mendes, pictured with Radamel Falcao, boasts some of the world's best players as clients

The Mail on Sunday have calculated Mendes has negotiated transfers totalling £1,068,370,548. So far.

With a typical ‘take’ of 10 per cent commission per deal, he will have cleared some £20m-plus this summer, and £100m-plus in commissions alone in his career. But his earnings do not stop there. Via his company GestiFute he also owns stakes in many players.

Mendes, married with five children, carries four mobile phones, is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian, and also acts as a consultant to other agencies who own and trade in players.

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Big deal: Mendes has negotiated many transfers

As such he represents what many fans see as the good, the bad and the ugly of modern football. He is, simultaneously, a key figure in a dynamic marketplace where you can rise on hard work and talent; a major player in a parasitic industry where hangers-on prosper; and a key figure in the often murky waters of vested interests where just a few people control many of the players and, arguably, the clubs.

That is not to traduce Mendes. Those who know him say he is engaging and provides good pastoral care. ‘He’s with players for the long haul, not the quick buck,’ says one associate.

Ronaldo says Mendes is a ‘fair and honest man’ who he trusts ‘completely’. Mourinho said of him in 2010: ‘When I was told there was to be an award for the best agent in the world, I was immediately convinced that the award had to be Jorge Mendes.’ The Chelsea boss also says Mendes encourages players to ‘respect their commitments’ to clubs. Sir Alex Ferguson says Mendes is ‘the best agent I dealt with, without a doubt’.

Also not in any doubt is Mendes’s increasing influence. GestiFute’s client list contains 58 names, two of them managers, Mourinho and Valencia’s Nuno Espirito Santo, the former goalkeeper known as Nuno.

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The best: Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho was convinced Mendes should be named the best agent in the world

Real Madrid’s Pepe and Fabio Coentrao are also on the list, as are United’s David de Gea and Anderson, and Monaco’s Ricardo Carvalho and Joao Moutinho.

Eighteen players are aged 23 or under, most of them in Portugal and Spain. Spotting potential and following it through is a hallmark of Mendes’s business.

He grew up in Lisbon, the son of a gas plant worker for Portugal’s biggest petrol company, Petrogal. By 20 he was playing semi-professional football as a left winger. He ran a video store, then opened a bar and club in coastal town Caminha. There he met Nuno, then 22, and helped him move to Deportivo La Coruna.

Eighteen years later, Nuno has been handed three young Mendes clients on loan this summer in a loan intake that also includes (non-Mendes clients) Alvaro Negredo and Bruno Zuculini, both from Manchster City.

By helping the young Nuno, Mendes was on his way, a fledgling agent at 30. He next helped midfielder Costinha get his break, from lowly Nacional to Monaco, then took winger Capucho from little Vitoria Guimaraes to Porto. His contacts grew, as did his rivalry with the then dominant Portuguese agent Jose Veiga. The pair had a scuffle over Luis Figo in Lisbon airport in 2002.

JAMES RODRIGUEZ

Club: Real Madrid
Age: 23
Nationality: Colombian
Position: Midfielder
Total move value: £101.50m
Last move: £63m to Madrid in 2014

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Big reputation: Gestifute's client contains 58 names thanks to Mendes' increasing influence in the game

CRISTIANO RONALDO

Club: Real Madrid
Age: 29
Nationality: Portuguese
Position: Forward
Total move value: £92.24m
Last move: £80m to Real Madrid in 2009

Mendes didn’t land that client from Veiga but he did bag Hugo Viana, Ricardo Quaresma and Ronaldo. Crucially, he charmed a client from another agent, Jose Baidek; the client was Mourinho and the truly big time beckoned.

By Euro 2008, Mendes was representing every major Portuguese footballer. He was agent to 16 of the 23-man squad, and to Portugal’s manager Luiz Felipe Scolari, who he then took to Chelsea.

In such a high-stakes environment it is inevitable Mendes has upset people. He was accused of poaching Nani (in 2007) and Bebe (in 2011) from their respective former agents Ana Almeida and Goncalo Reis, just before those players made moves to United. They said he pinched their players; he said they wanted his help to make progress.

Reis said of his muscling in on the Bebe deal: ‘When Mendes arrived I was out of the transaction. It’s a sad thing that the one who discovers a player is not able to stay with him when big clubs are interested.’

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Star names: Real Madrid's deadly duo of James Rodriguez and Cristiano Ronaldo are also Mendes clients

The Bebe transfer also highlights another aspect of Mendes’s business — owning players. His firm GestiFute earned about £2.87m from the £7.4m United paid for Bebe for their share of his ‘economic rights’.

Another of Mendes’s recent client moves took Spanish striker Adrian Lopez from Atletico Madrid to Porto, with Porto paying £8.7m for 60 per cent of the player and the other shareholding an unspecified third party.

Another Mendes client, 21-year-old Portuguese midfielder Andre Gomes, on loan at Nuno’s Valencia from Benfica, is owned — entirely separately from his loan move — by Valencia’s Singaporean billionaire owner, Peter Lim.

Third-party ownership (TPO) is a regulatory minefield. In England it is prohibited by FA rules and opposed by the Premier League, whose spokesman said: ‘It threatens the integrity of competitions, reduces the flow of transfer revenue contained within the game, and has the potential to exert external influences on players’ transfer decisions.’

ANGEL DI MARIA

Club: Manchester United
Age: 26
Nationality: Argentinian
Position: Midfielder
Total move value: £89.08m
Last move: £59.7m to Man United in 2014

A report last year by auditors KPMG said there were about 1,100 TPO footballers at work around Europe, in total worth about £1bn.

Sources say four — among them Mangala — and perhaps more of the 100-plus players coming to the Premier League this summer were third-party owned — before the English clubs took 100 per cent ownership. Liverpool’s Lazar Markovic and United’s Marcos Rojo were among them.

Chelsea’s parent company, via a subsidiary firm, is believed to own a group of TPO players, but none in England, so no rules are broken. Mendes has been linked to that fund as consultant.

Mendes didn’t own Mangala, he is ‘just’ the player’s agent and worked with several parties as City paid about £40m for the player. The £40m was split between Porto, an ‘ownership fund’ called Doyen and another called Robi Plus, with agency fees on top.

No wonder Mendes, pictured so often with his clients recently, is always smiling.

ELIAQUIM MANGALA

Club: Manchester City
Age: 23
Nationality: French
Position: Defender
Total move value: £42m
Last move: £42m to Man City in 2014

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Andi Istiabudi
03-08-2015, 11:44 AM
Baru sadar kalau ternyata sudah ada threadnya Jorge Mendes di forum ini tapi tampaknya jarang ada postingan selama hampir setahun terakhir :)

Menikah, Jorge Mendes Dapat Hadiah Pulau dari Ronaldo
Doni Wahyudi - detikSport

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Lisbon - Jorge Mendes melangsungkan pesta pernikahannya di akhir pekan kemarin. Dari salah satu pemain yang ditangani dia dapat hadiah super wah. Cristiano Ronaldo dikabarkan memberinya kado ulang tahun sebuah pulau.

Menjadi atlet sepakbola paling tajir, semua yang didapat Ronaldo tidak lepas dari peran Mendes. Agen pemain yang juga berasal dari Portugal itu punya peran besar mengangkat karier Ronaldo dari bocah penuh jerawat di Sporting Lisbon menjadi bintang Manchester United dan kini merupakan superstar Real Madrid.

Ronaldo dan Mendes juga diketahui punya hubungan sangat dekat. Karena itulah Mendes menjadikan pesepakbola terbaik dunia itu sebagai pendampingnya saat melangsungkan pernikahan di akhir pekan kemarin.

Untuk sang agen yang sudah membantunya meraih deal-deal besar, Ronaldo memberi hadiah perkawinan yang tak kalah besar. Dikabarkan kalau Ronaldo membeli sebuah pulau di Yunani dan menghadiahkannya pada Mendes. Demikian dilaporkan media lokal Portugal Move Noticias, seperti dikutip dari Eurosport.

Beberapa pulau kecil di Yunani memang dijual oleh pemerintah negara tersebut terkait krisis keuangan yang melanda. Pulau-pulau itu dijual mulai harga 3-50 juta euro. Namun tidak diketahui dengan pasti pulau mana yang dibeli Ronaldo dan kemudian dijadikan hadiah pernikahan untuk Mendes.

zudomiriku
04-08-2015, 01:37 PM
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Football super agent Jorge Mendes is all smiles as he arrives at his wedding in Portugal over the weekend

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Confetti is thrown outside the Sao Joao Baptista church in Porto as well wishers greet the newly married duo

zudomiriku
04-08-2015, 01:52 PM
Here Sportsmail looks at Jorge Mendes’ 20 biggest transfers of recent years...


Cristiano Ronaldo, Sporting Lisbon to Manchester United £12m, 2003

Paulo Ferriera, Porto to Chelsea, £13.2m, 2004

Ricardo Carvalho, Porto to Chelsea, £20m, 2004

Nani, Sporting Lisbon to Manchester United, £22.4m, 2007

Anderson, Porto to Manchester United, £23m, 2007

Pepe, Porto to Real Madrid, £24m, 2007

Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United to Real Madrid, £80m, 2009

Angel di Maria, Benfica to Real Madrid, £21m, 2010

Jose Mourinho, Inter Milan to Real Madrid, £10.6m, 2010

Radamel Falcao, Porto to Atletico Madrid, £32m, 2011

Sergio Aguero, Atletico Madrid to Manchester City, £38m, 2011

James Rodriguez, Porto to Monaco, £38.5m, 2013

Joao Moutinho, Porto to Monaco, £22m, 2013

Jose Mourinho, Real Madrid to Chelsea, £12.8m annual salary, 2013

Radamel Falcao, Atletico Madrid to Monaco, £48.8m. 2013

Diego Costa, Atletico Madrid to Chelsea, £32m, 2014

James Rodriguez, Monaco to Real Madrid, £68m, 2014

Eliaquim Mangala, Porto to Manchester City, £32m, 2014

Angel di Maria, Real Madrid to Manchester United, £59.7m, 2014

Radamel Falcao, Monaco to Manchester United, £6.7m loan fee plus £200,000 wages

zudomiriku
03-09-2015, 01:56 PM
Bursa Transfer Musim Panas: Jorge Mendes Menang Besar (Lagi)
Doni Wahyudi - detikSport


Siapa yang diuntungkan dari transfer Anthony Martial, Angel Di Maria, dan Nicolas Otamendi? Bukan Manchester United, AS Monaco, Valencia, atau Manchester City. Pemenang di bursa transfer musim panas ini adalah Jorge Mendes.

Jorge Mendes, 49 tahun, adalah agen dari nama-nama yang disebut di atas. Media-media Eropa menjulukinya 'Super Agent' karena Gestifute Agency miliknya punya klien-klien kelas kakap seperti Cristiano Ronaldo, James Rodriguez, Thiago Silva, Diego Costa, Falcao, David De Gea, Sergio Aguero, dan juga Jose Mourinho.

Harian olahraga yang bermarkas di Catalunya, Sport, menyebut kalau di musim panas ini Mendes terlibat dalam transaksi yang jumlahnya mencapai 400 juta euro. Angka tersebut setara dengan Rp 8,5 triliun.

Dari enam transfer termahal di musim panas ini, tiga di antaranya difasilitasi Mendes. Mereka adalah Di Maria (44,1 juta poundsterling), Martial (35 juta poundsterling) dan Otamendi (31,22 juta poundsterling).

Angka tersebut malah bisa lebih besar lagi andai David De Gea jadi pindah dari Manchester United ke Real Madrid.

Transfer-transfer lain di musim panas 2015 yang melibatkan pria asal Portugal ini adalah Jackson Martinez (Porto ke Atletico Madrid, 35 juta euro), Arda Turan (Atletico ke Barcelona, 34 juta euro) and Abdennour (Monaco ke Valencia, 25 juta euro).

Daftarnya bertambah panjang dengan nama-nama seperti Joao Cancelo (Benfica ke Valencia, 15 juta euro), Ivan Cavaleiro (Benfica ke Monaco, 15 juta euro), Santi Mina (Celta ke Valencia, 10 juta euro), Raul Jimenez (Atletico ke Benfica, 9 juta euro), Danilo Barbosa (Braga ke Valencia, 7 juta euro), Bernard Mensah (Atletico ke Getafe, 6 juta euro), Aderlan Santos (Braga ke Valencia, 4,75 juta euro), dan masih banyak lagi.

Sejak menangani klien pertamanya, Nuno, di sebuah klub malam di Portugal pada tahun 1995 silam, Mendes diklaim sudah menegosiasikan kontrak dalam jumlah yang luar biasa besar. Sportingintelligence menyebut angkanya mencapai 1,068 miliar poundsterling, atau sekitar Rp 22.852.000.000.000 (22 triliun rupiah).

Mendes juga diketahui punya hubungan sangat baik dengan beberapa klub di Eropa, yang pada akhirnya bisa memengaruhi kebijakan transfer klub tersebut. Dua klub yang paling sering melibatkan transaksi dengan klien-klien Mendes adalah AS Monaco dan Valencia. Pengaruh yang juga besar pernah dia punya terhadap Dinamo Moscow, di mana pada tahun 2004 dia 'mengirim' 10 pemain Portugal ke klub tersebut. Termasuk di antaranya adalah Costinha, Derlei dan Maniche.

Di Portugal, Mendes sangat sering berbisnis dengan Benfica dan Porto, sementara di Spanyol dia kerap terlibat jual-beli pemain dengan Real Madrid, Atletico, Valencia dan Deportivo La Coruna. Sementara di Inggris ada Chelsea dan Manchester United. Klub lain yang dekat dengan Medes dan sering membeli pemain-pemain di bawah agensinya adalah Monaco, Besiktas dan Zenit.

Sosoknya yang flamboyan dan pergaulan di papan atas sepakbola Eropa membuat dia punya banyak teman dengan nama besar. Saat melangsungkan pernikahan bulan lalu, Florentino Perez dan Roman Abramovich termasuk nama yang berada di daftar tamu.

Transfer-transfer terbesar Mendes


Pemain----------------Transfer------------------------Nilai Transfer
Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United ke Real Madrid 80 juta poundsterling
James Rodriguez AS Monaco ke Real Madrid 71 juta poundsterling
Angel Di Maria Real Madrid ke Manchester United 59,7 juta poundsterling
Radamel Falcao Atletico Madrid ke AS Monaco 52,8 juta poundsterling
Sergio Aguero Atletico Madrid ke Manchester City 38 juta poundsterling

'Starting XI' Jorge Mendes

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Andi Istiabudi
18-04-2018, 08:39 PM
Lama tidak posting di thread ini :)

Ada Jorge Mendes di Belakang Promosi Wolverhampton
Yanu Arifin - detikSport

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Jakarta - Wolverhampton Wanderers jadi tim pertama yang promosi ke Premier League 2018/2019. Sukses klub tersebut banyak melibatkan super agen, Jorge Mendes.

Wolves memastikan promosi pada akhir pekan lalu, ketika pesaingnya, Fulham, ditahan imbang Brentford 1-1. Hasil itu membuat posisi Wolves dipastikan tak tergeser dari dua besar.

Terakhir kali Wolves lolos ke Premier League terjadi pada musim 2012/2013. Namun ketika itu, Wolves langsung terdegradasi lagi lantaran hasil buruk. Mereka menjadi juru kunci Liga Inggris dan kembali ke Championship. Prestasinya sejak saat itu tak kunjung membaik, dengan justru terdegradasi lagi ke League One.

Usai juara League One pada musim 2013/2014, Wolves kesulitan bersaing di Divisi Championship. Mereka pun melewati tiga musim di Championship dengan finis di peringkat 7, 14, dan 15.

Di musim 2017/2018, persiapan dilakukan Wolves untuk bangkit. Mereka mendatangkan beberapa muka anyar seperti meminjam Diogo Jota dari Atletico Madrid, Alfred N'Diaye (Villarreal) dan Willy Bolly (Porto).

Deretan pemain yang diboyong berlanjut dengan Ruben Neves, Ryan Bennett, John Ruddy, Barry Douglas, hingga pelatih Nuno Espirito Santos.

Diogo Jota tampil bersinar dengan mencetak 17 gol musim ini. Sementara polesan Santos membuat Wolves menjadi tim yang cukup impresif, dengan mencetak 76 gol (terbanyak) dan kebobolan 36 (paling sedikit kedua setelah Cardiff 35 gol).

Dari sinilah muncul nama Jorge Mendes, sang super agen asal Portugal. Mendes punya peran besar dalam sukses Wolves promosi karena dialah yang mendatangkan pemain-pemain pilar klub tersebut.

Lalu apa hubungan Mendes dengan Wolves?

Wolves saat ini dipunya oleh konglomerasi asal China, Fosun. Nah, Fosun ternyata juga memiliki saham pada Gestifute, agensi pemain milik Medes.

Soal hubungan Mendes, Fosun, dan Wolves sudah jadi pembicaraan hangat di Inggris. Relasi di antara mereka bertiga memunculkan konflik kepentingan dan dinilai sudah menyalahi aturan FA.

Keberadaan Mendes di Wolves memberi efek yang sangat signifikan untuk klub tersebut. Lihatlah bagaimana Wolves bisa mendatangkan banyak pemain asal Portugal, termasuk pelatih Nuno Esperito Santo, yang pernah melatih FC Porto.

Yang paling signifikan adalah pembelian Ruben Navas. Sempat dikabarkan jadi incaran beberapa klub Premier League, Navas malam memilih berlaga di Divisi Championship bersama Wolves.

Kejelian manajemen dan Santos meracik Wolves musim ini patut dicermati musim depan, ketika datang di Premier League. Managing Director Wolves Laurie Dalrymple menegaskan Wolves memang berambisi menjadi tim yang disegani dan tak berniat melepas pemain-pemain terbaiknya.

"Tidak ada tekanan sama sekali [untuk menjual pemain penting]. Kami sedang membangun klub dan tim untuk masa depan sehingga akan sedikit melemahkan jika kami membiarkan aset kami cepat keluar dalam tahap pertama proyek ini," kata Dalrympie dikutip Sky Sports.

"Kami sepenuhnya sadar bahwa promosi ke Liga Premier adalah bagian utama di mana kami ingin membawa klub ini. Tapi ini bukanlah akhir. Promosi bukanlah akhirnya. Kami ingin bersaing untuk waktu yang lama dan memposisikan kami di jajaran elit sepakbola Inggris," tegasnya.

Andi Istiabudi
12-07-2018, 06:20 AM
Jorge Mendes: Juventus Klub Terakhir Cristiano Ronaldo
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Turin - Cristiano Ronaldo sudah bergabung dengan Juventus. Bianconeri disebut oleh agennya, Jorge Mendes, akan menjadi klub terakhir CR7.

Ronaldo ditebus oleh Juventus dari Madrid dengan nilai transfer 100 juta euro. Dia mendapatkan kontrak empat tahun, hingga akan berusia 37 tahun saat ikatan kerjasamanya dengan klub Turin itu selesai.

Di usia itu, Ronaldo jelas memasuki akhir karier sebagai pesepakbola. Oleh karena itu, pilihan Ronaldo bergabung dengan Juve disebut Mendes sebagai keputusan yang pas.

"Saya sangat bahagia untuk Cristiano. Juventus akan menjadi klub terakhirnya dan saya senang dia membuat keputusan ini. Bersama tim ini, ia akan mengakhiri karier dengan luar biasa," ungkap Mendes dilansir Football Italia.

Untuk mendapatkan Ronaldo, presiden Juventus, Andrea Agnelli, harus mendatangi kapten timnas Portugal itu saat berlibur ke Yunani. Mendes memuji keinginan kuat Agnelli itu.

"Saya berterima kasih kepada (Presiden Juventus) Andrea Agnelli atas determinasinya dan kemauan untuk bernegosiasi dengan Real Madrid. Saya juga berterima kasih untuk (General Manager) Beppe Marotta atas sikap profesionalis yang dimiliki," lanjut dia.

Andi Istiabudi
31-08-2018, 10:53 PM
Ronaldo Tak Menangi Pemain Terbaik UEFA, Jorge Mendes: Ini Konyol, Memalukan
Okdwitya Karina Sari - detikSport

Monako - Cristiano Ronaldo di luar dugaan gagal memenangi penghargaan Pemain Terbaik UEFA 2017/18. Hasil yang membuat agen Ronaldo, Jorge Mendes, ngamuk.

Ronaldo gagal menciptakan hat-trick sebagai Pemain Terbaik UEFA. Adalah Luka Modric, yang terpilih sebagai pemenang penghargaan ini mengalahkan Ronaldo dan bintang Liverpool Mohamed Salah.

Tidak dipungkiri bahwa megabintang sepakbola Portugal itu berpengaruh dalam sukses Madrid memenangi gelar Liga Champions ketiga berturut-turut. Sebanyak 15 gol dibukukan Ronaldo dalam 13 pertandingan termasuk enam gol di fase knockout. Tapi Ronaldo memang tidak lagi mencetak gol sejak membobol gawang Juventus di perempatfinal leg kedua.

Kemudian di Piala Dunia, Ronaldo cuma sampai babak 16 besar bersama Portugal. Di turnamen musim panas itu, pesepakbola berusia 33 tahun ini mencetak empat gol di fase grup saja.

Meski tidak terpilih sebagai Pemain Terbaik UEFA, Ronaldo tetap menggondol sebuah penghargaan. Pemain terbaik dunia lima kali tersebut dinobatkan sebagai Penyerang Terbaik di Liga Champions 2017/18.

"Sepakbola dimainkan di lapangan dan di situlah Cristiano menang," Mendes mengatakan kepada Record, yang dikutip FourFourTwo.

"Dia mencetak 15 gol, menggendong Real Madrid dan menaklukkan Liga Champions lagi. Ini konyol, memalukan. Pemenangnya tidak diragukan karena Ronaldo adalah yang terbaik di posisinya," sembur superagen itu.

Ronaldo sendiri memilih tidak datang di malam penghargaan yang digelar di Monako, Rabu (30/8/2018). Sejauh ini, Ronaldo tidak memberikan penjelasan resmi tapi Juventus mengatakan bahwa pemainnya itu absen atas keputusan pribadi.