Football Super-Agent Rafaela Pimenta Calls for Transfer System Change
Football super-agent Rafaela Pimenta has called for significant changes to the football transfer system on the eve of transfer deadline day. The qualified lawyer, whose highest-profile client is Erling Haaland, believes that football clubs currently hold too much power in transfers.
Pimenta, 53, who previously worked closely with the late Mino Raiola, has inherited his clients since the super-agent’s death nearly four years ago. She also manages Liverpool head coach Arne Slot, as well as Manchester United stars Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui.
Pimenta Speaks Out on the Transfer System
Speaking to the BBC, Pimenta stated: There needs to be a change; there’s too much power for clubs, players are sometimes hostages of situations. I’m not fighting for chaos; we need the transfer system to make the whole thing work, but we need more balance.
She continued: We are in a transfer window, and I can bet you, because I see it at the end of every window, somebody will cry. There’s always a player crying because he could have gone, needed to go, and a club said they want £1m more.
Football used to be more human; a football director or an owner would have a special relationship with the player. If a player went to them and said, ‘Please, I need to go,’ they would find a solution.
Today, football is becoming so much of a business that there is a risk that players become an asset on the balance sheet; an asset has no voice, no feelings, no human needs. The challenge is to find a balance between the asset and the human being.
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