{"id":25725,"date":"2018-01-27T14:15:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T13:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/27\/agents-race-to-depose-zahavi-and-mendes-in-footballs-game-of-thrones\/"},"modified":"2018-01-27T14:15:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T13:15:50","slug":"agents-race-to-depose-zahavi-and-mendes-in-footballs-game-of-thrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=25725","title":{"rendered":"Agents race to depose Zahavi and Mendes in football\u2019s Game of Thrones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Pini Zahavi now 74 and Jorge Mendes\u2019s stable out of favour with PSG and Real Madrid, the race is on to be king of an astronomical marketWhat do a former nightclub DJ, a pizza restaurant waiter, a banker, an advertising student and the son of a car salesman from north London have in common? Rather than being the start of a bad joke, Jorge Mendes, Mino Raiola, Jonathan Barnett, Fernando Felicevich and Kia Joorabchian have emerged from their varied backgrounds to become five of the most powerful \u201csuper agents\u201d in modern football.In total, they are estimated to have received more than \u00a3200m from fees and commissions in the past 12 months, with a group of players under their control worth more than \u00a32bn. And rising. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/jan\/27\/agents-zahavi-mendes-football-game-of-thrones\" target=\"_blank\">Agents race to depose Zahavi and Mendes in football\u2019s Game of Thrones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Pini Zahavi now 74 and Jorge Mendes\u2019s stable out of favour with PSG and Real Madrid, the race is on to be king of an astronomical marketWhat do a former nightclub DJ, a pizza restaurant waiter, a banker, an advertising student and the son of a car salesman from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}