Englischer und italienischer Spitzenklub an Witsel interessiert (BVB)

Kulibi77, Dienstag, 31.07.2018, 12:26 (vor 2926 Tagen) @ Sascha

Sicher? Transfermarkt gibt bei Witsel den Status "ungeklärt" unter Berater aus und auch Google findet Witsel nicht als Klienten von Mendes.

Nicht ganz offiziell, aber er gehört zum Mendes-Universum, denn sein richtiger Berater hat nicht nur einen echten Mafiaspitznamen, sondern ist auch von der FIFA als Berater gesperrt:

Despite the obvious attraction of a five-fold increase on the salary he was earning at Zenit St Petersburg, Witsel’s decision to move to China remains curious. Having begun his career at Standard Liège, he joined Benfica in 2011 in a deal that was brokered by Luciano D’Onofrio – Standard’s part-owner at the time and Zinedine Zidane’s former agent. Despite being convicted in France in 2007 for his part in a series of football corruption scandals and eventually barred from practising as an agent by Fifa, the man known as Lucky Luciano is understood to have received a 10% share in the player as payment from Benfica, who subsequently sold Witsel to Zenit for his release clause of €40m. Details of the transfer were later revealed by the Football Leaks website, which claimed the transfer also contained clauses to purchase the Argentina winger Nicolás Gaitán for a set fee of €20m.

The move is believed to have been brokered by Mendes, who retains strong ties with the Benfica president, Luís Filipe Vieira, on behalf of D’Onofrio and Witsel’s father, Thierry. Both men were reported by the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad to have received up to €15m for helping to smooth the transfer to Quanjian.

theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/jan/08/chinese-super-league-spending-materialism-extravagance