What percentage do Footballers' agents take?
Is it 15-20%? Is that of everything? (transfer fee, weekly wage, endorsements). Do they take a Buyer AND Seller fee I wonder.
I ask because "football super-agent" Jorges Mendes has been interviewed by the BBC this week.
Turns out his clients are:
(including) Diego Costa, Yacine Brahimi, José Mourinho, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Carlos Queiroz, Simão Sabrosa, Anderson, Fábio Coentrão, Pepe, Ángel Di María, Cristiano Ronaldo, Radamel Falcao García, Ricardo Carvalho, Nani, Ricardo Quaresma, Burak Yılmaz, João Moutinho, James Rodríguez, David de Gea and Víctor Valdés.
Clearly a strong Portuguese connection.
It doesn't take much to work out that Mendes must be rolling in it. Ronaldo alone transferred to Madrid for £80million and has a reported weekly wage of £500,000. He's now valued at £300 million so you can imagine that his weekly wage may approach a million.
His career as a huge money earner is likely to be three times as long as his clients.
If we remove the Oil Field owners out of the equation then it's likely that the richest people in football are the top agents. Mendes is certainly worth more than most traditional football club owners.