by sussexpob » Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:22 am
I have a belief myself that people like Mendes must have contacts that run deep into the game, because he has consistently been able to use the most fragile of arguments to avoid any serious investigations into his work. Even the most basic of scrutiny into the relationship he has with Wolves would highlight very worrying problems; the owner of Wolves holding company having a significant investment in his agency company, the exclusive signing of players from that stable, and the nature of those signings all really do point towards Mendes selecting players to join Wolves. The manager involved officially in the deals is his client. The DOF is a personal friend, who is on record saying they have a lengthy personal relationship. He simply defends himself on the breach of conflicting interests and agencies rules by saying its a co-incidence that a club who part owns his company only sign his players, and that he does not pressure or suggest to players, nor to Wolves, who to sign..... which is why top players are turning down Champions League clubs on good money to join a Championship team last year. Barcelona tried to sign Neves, and he ended up playing v Burton Albion.... sounds entirely plausible.
The ease at which he is able to get himself out of trouble is indicative of a lack of desire from authorities to get into his arrangements, probably because naturally any profits end up in brown envelopes to all those stakeholders involved. How many of Mendes top transfer signings have ended up in tax evasion charges? I think all of his top clients have, Falcao/Ronaldo/James/Contraeo/Mourinho to name a few. Each time he is called to court to explain how all these players end up with the same shell compnay system hiding their image rights, and once again, its just pure co-incidence. Co-incidence follows him round a lot, it seems.
The fact the Portuguese authorities never jailed him or pinned him for the Bebe transfer is another classic example; but the problem is, most of his dodgiest deals are beneficial to the clubs in his home country, and so the willingness to engage in his robin hood style transfers which rip of elite clubs in Europe, are happily gobbled up there. I cant remember who it was who said it, but one chairman of Porto or Benfica said he was severely corrupt, that Portuguese domestically talk of him as being dodgy as hell, but he brings money into Portugal like a key exporter for the country, so everyone turns a blind eye and on an international front, would protect him.
Its worth lingering on that Bebe deal. He went for a free transfer from a Portguese Third Division side only about a fortnight before United approached to sign him, to a non-descript nobody club in Portugal. Then all of a sudden Carlos Quiroz goes to Fergie (used to be his number 2, and had just taken the Portugal job) there is this stunning player you need to sign about to go to Real or Barca, Quiroz happening to be a Mendes client, United dont even scout him and simply take a punt for 9 million Euros..... in the meantime, Mendes has the player sack his agent, buys out the players 50% economic rights for a few thousand euros, and within two weeks turns over something crazy like 3-4 million Euro profit on the deal. The player ended up being a League Two standard, and played twice for United in 5 years, the most notable thing he did was nearly clear the stretford end with his first chance. Quite clearly, this was a snatch and grab stitch up.
In fact, United have a habit of doing this with Mendes. Remember Kleberson, the terrible Midfielder.... Mendes. Or Anderson, the total flop, who Man United bizarrely paid about £30 million for after playing just a handful of games for Porto.... Mendes company bought 70% of his economic rights before that transfer. How about Nani, another top priced flop, Mendes..... the list goes on.
Even now, is it not strange that Mendes friend and owner of a Portuguese subsidiary agency, flogs a United Manager (Mendes Client) a player no one has ever heard of in Diogo Dalot, who was so talented he went for £20 million after 6 games, and so talented he is yet to be seen in a United shirt..... when you look at how many Jose Mendes players Mourniho has bought in his day, you can create whole squads.... must be another co-incidence, I am sure in those proven offshore accounts there is no cash as his part of those deals, no way.
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