The best players in the world agent in 2010, Jorge Mendes, said he was convinced that his client Cristiano Ronaldo "will be the best player in the history" of football and that today already exceeds the Argentine Leo Messi.
The best players in the world agent in 2010, Jorge Mendes, said he was convinced that his client Cristiano Ronaldo "will be the best player in the history" of football and that today already exceeds the Argentine Leo Messi.
In a extensive interview with the weekly newspaper Expresso `Luso ', Mendes looks back on his career, in which during the past 15 years has moved 650 million euros in the purchase and sale of players, including multimillion-dollar transfers of Di Maria, Ronaldo, Pepe and Carvalho to Real Madrid or Nani and Anderson to Manchester United.
FIFA agent, known by some as `super Mendes' and dubbed by others Mendes' shark ', noted that Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in the world "thanks to its speed, its" great "technique and their strength in the air.
Asked if the best player in the world is not Leo Messi, Mendes said: "Definitely not."
"People will agree with me over time. Cristiano will be considered the greatest of all time. Messi is a great player, I have no doubt. But the strength of will, character and quality set it apart from all Christian , and now it joins the fact of being with the best coach in the world of all time, "he said.
About Real Madrid coach, Jose Mourinho, one of the most popular representation, Mendes said it was "a genius" who "has everything", to combine leadership with the highest level of training. "We can expect more than 500 years and no one will like it," he said.
In his view, with the signings of these two stars, the Spanish League "which was recovered lost "and has come to be the best in the world, ahead of the English, but said that the Premier" remains the most watched. "
"There are parties to the twelve, one, three ... In Asia see those games. The Spanish League should continue that policy. It is essential, because the TV business," he said.
The Portuguese agent, 44, received Dec. 30 Soccer Globe Award, which identifies him as the best players of the year agent 2010.
Mendes began his career in football, particularly from the inside left position, which led him to abandon his native Lisbon 21 years and go to Viana do Castelo, northern Iraq, to play with the Vianense.
He soon showed great entrepreneurial vision to open one of the first video stores in the city six months after arriving in the city, a success that broadened the business.
Their own duties an entrepreneur was not allowed near train, which led him to play Lanheses, a team of lower quality, whose leaders, he proposed no charge or a coat in exchange for managing the advertising club.
After passing through the restoration, opened a burger-entered the entertainment industry, which enabled him to meet at the club of which he owned with other partners to be their first represented, goalkeeper Nuno, and shut down transfer Guimaraes Deportivo de La Coruña.
Also in its early Costinha negotiated the sale of Valencia (1997), finally signing the claim was cut short by his coach at that time, Jorge Valdano, to give the player Luso, which led to Mendes to break the contract with President `che ', Paco Roig, and close his move to Monaco.
Mendes is currently at 70 players. Gestifute your company employs twenty people, is known for its reluctance to grant interviews and admits to being able to keep three mobile-phone-for 16 hours daily.
FIFA agent said that for him "are not important contracts" with their constituencies, and their relationship with them is based on "trust" and "friendship."
"I never got paid a commission to any player, or one percent or ten," he said Mendes, who said yes negotiating commissions with the clubs, both buyers and sellers, "depending on the case."