The super agent will be left with only one player at the Santiago Bernabeu at the end of this summer and now his biggest client is unhappy too
ANALYSIS
Football is full of 'lobbies'. They are not called that, but they exist everywhere. Coaches who have their favourite players, presidents who work with certain agents, footballers who recommend their friends. Circles of confidence or pressure. And, for the past few years, Jorge Mendes was at the centre of one such circle at Real Madrid.
The Portuguese super agent represented so many players in the Madrid squad in a close working relationship with Jose Mourinho that he was once described as a de facto sporting director for Real.