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Mino Raiola

He is arguably one of the most powerful men in world football, yet most fans would probably find it hard to identify him. His family were immigrants from southern Italy to Netherlands when he was a baby, yet nowadays he controls a global football players agency worth anything up to €50 million or more.

He is, of course, the 53-year-old “super” agent Mino Raiola, a man whose current book of megastar clients includes Paul Pogba, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Zlatan Ibrahimovic to name but three. The thing about Raiola, though, is that not everybody

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