SUPER agent Mino Raiola boasts an array of star-studded purchasers together with Paul Pogba and Erling Haaland.
The Dutch-Italian middleman has a black e-book filled with soccer's largest names and is a significant participant within the majority of money-spinning transfers.
The 53-year-old set tongues wagging when he was snapped visiting Barcelona and Actual Madrid with Haaland's dad Alfe-Inge in April.
However a summer time swap failed to return about, with the striker set to depart in 2022 the place he's out there for simply £64million as a consequence of a clause in his contract.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is known to be eager to be reunited together with his compatriot at Manchester United after the 2 labored collectively at Molde.
The Pink Devils had been unsuccessful in touchdown their man when he selected to maneuver to Borussia Dortmund from RB Leipzig at the beginning of 2020.
Raiola helped him agree the swap to the Bundesliga over a transfer to the Theatre of Desires.
Matthijs de Ligt is one other of his purchasers to have snubbed a transfer to Outdated Trafford when he joined Juventus in 2019.
Raiola additionally negotiates on behalf of a number of different gifted stars, together with Paris Saint-Germain goalkeer Gianluigi Donnarumma and his former AC Milan team-mate Alessio Romagnoli.
Ex-Napoli team-mates Kostas Manolas and Hirving Lozano - the latter linked with a swap to United - are additionally on his books.
As is PSG midfielder Marco Veratti - who United had been regarded as focused on a deal for again in 2018.
BVB ahead Donyell Malen - introduced in to switch Jadon Sancho - can also be a shopper of Raiola.
One other man within the agent's tremendous crew is Lillian Thuram's son Marcus, who has been at Borussia Monchengladbach since 2019.
The participant rep has endured a controversial relationship with United chiefs, primarily as a consequence of his outspoken feedback relating to Pogba.
Raiola famously vowed in 2019 that he would not ship any extra gamers to the Pink Devils as a result of they'd 'break Pele and Maldini'.
In 2020, he revealed that French World Cup winner Pogba needed to depart only a day earlier than United crashed out of the Champions League group stage by the hands of RB Leipzig.
Incensed by the remarks, membership legend Gary Neville claimed that the membership ought to by no means signal one other participant represented by Raiola and insisted the previous Italian restaurant waiter needs to be blacklisted.
He advised Sky Sports activities: “Manchester United have gotten a giant drawback while they’ve obtained a star participant within the dressing room who has an agent is categorically going to exit the night time earlier than the largest recreation of the season. The dearth of respect!
“The man ought to by no means be handled once more by this soccer membership. This soccer membership has obtained to face nonetheless and have a look at what is going on.”
Raiola was blamed by Sir Alex Ferguson for Pogba's first Manchester exit again in 2012.
He has since did not restore relationships when he repped each Zlatan Ibrahimovic and former shopper Romelu Lukaku when the 2 strikers had been on the Theatre of Desires.
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