Mino Raiola and his positive influence on Everton

[davek]

You know this for a fact Dave??

No. I read the reports. Apparently it's not happening that way now though.

 

[Badge1878]

Raiola will do what he thinks is right for his client and with that contracted relationship, he also does well. His clients love him because he doesn’t care about the reputations of football people such as Ferguson who still believed the power lay in a club managers hands. No wonder Sir Alec hated him because Raiola knew that the balance of power was shifting to the player as the real assets. Speaks seven languages and in every one he puts his players interests first (of which he also benefits from]!

He’s a power broker in today’s game where increasingly the money generated from the game ends up in the players pockets rather than the clubs. He is no friend of Everton, or any club for what it’s worth. They are all no more than future opportunities to keep the merry go round of football finance alive and as it stands he is the ringmaster playing in the Big Top conducting transfers and strategies that ultimately serve only one purpose, to make him and his increasing stable of elite footballers more and more money,

 

[SteStocksDJ]

It's all semantics: if Kean does well here Rat-ola will have him at the Bernabeu or Nou Camp or City.

And if he does well here you are happy to deny him a move to Barca or Real

If he does well enough here that they are sniffing then

1. There’s big profit to be made
2. He will have helped us into Europe

Have you taken your meds this decade ?

 

[Neiler]

Wow, it’s like a swimmer thanking a shark for biting of their leg.

 

[chrismpw]

Fricking middle men getting rich on other people's talent. Unneeded parasites need binning.

After they've pushed the next Messi this way.

 

[vintage-toffees]

Riola is using the club as his new stepping stone club to the champions league clubs for his fringe players and if he had his way clients who are now deemed not cl worthy

Dangerous game

 

[sandman77]

You don't get be mega-rich and successful in any business without stepping over dead bodies.
And by putting themselves and their clients first.
From a club perspective, you wont get access to the best players, unless you deal with those people.

All in all, dealing with super-agents who puts money first, it is practically inevitable if we are going to move forward.

Money talks, and if it didnt, PL would not be the preferred destination for top european talent.
Instead it would be filled with Naismiths, McFaddens and the occasional Baardsens, Degns and Alexanderssons.

 

[TippEverton]

If the Kean deal gets done, would he be our only player with Raiola, it surely can't be that big of a deal.

Lots and lots of poor characters involved in the game, I'm sure we deal with a few as it is.

Worrying what happens with Kean down the line the way the games gone seems a bit silly to me.

Let's just hope he bosses it for Everton while we have him.

 

[CRIMHEAD]

Look, you can't sit here and declare that we should be in the Champions League and should be after top flight talent, yet on the other hand say we should avoid guys like Raiola. The top talent has top representation. That's not a coincidence. You are going to have to make a deal with someone sometimes that you don't like. Brands has dealt with Raiola before and will use him to bring in top talent. He's not stupid. And honestly, how dumb can he be to get Kean for 30M + only 50K a week of salary?

 

[Pabbers]

Is he not Brands agent tho??

 

[Tel001]

£75M with add ons.

Is this a joke?

At that time it was a decent fee 90m including add ons but typical of Everton, as soon as we sell our best player for the highest fee in our history, Neymar moves for 200m and the market adjusts and it turns out if we waited we probably could have demanded 100m

 

[Igrok]

Raiola will do what he thinks is right for his client and with that contracted relationship, he also does well. His clients love him because he doesn’t care about the reputations of football people such as Ferguson who still believed the power lay in a club managers hands. No wonder Sir Alec hated him because Raiola knew that the balance of power was shifting to the player as the real assets. Speaks seven languages and in every one he puts his players interests first (of which he also benefits from]!

He’s a power broker in today’s game where increasingly the money generated from the game ends up in the players pockets rather than the clubs. He is no friend of Everton, or any club for what it’s worth. They are all no more than future opportunities to keep the merry go round of football finance alive and as it stands he is the ringmaster playing in the Big Top conducting transfers and strategies that ultimately serve only one purpose, to make him and his increasing stable of elite footballers more and more money,

It”s always HIS personal interests first...above any player...

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

I’m absolutely fine with using Raiola, so long as we’ve got our eyes wide open. I’m much more comfortable dealing with him now we’ve got Brands in charge of transfers - he’ll be fully aware of Raiola’s games, and will engage where he believes it’s in the club’s best interests.

At the end of the day, we have a guy like Brands on the payroll specifically because - while we have good money to spend - we can’t go out and just buy a ready made top 4 team (which would be the only way to keep top level talent long term right now) so we have to build towards that, and a chunk is player trading at a profit and reinvesting that profit (and further funds) into buying incrementally better players.

 

[thirdmantackle]

He didn't.

Raiola also said had he been Lukaku's agent then he wouldn't have signed for Everton.

He'd have gone to a club with a better buffet

 

[mill]

£75M with add ons.

Is this a joke?

That’s looking good value right now!