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Pini Zahavi, football's first and only super-agent
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2006/nov/26/football.features
Contrary to the prevailing notion that the financial dealings of football lack transparency and are orchestrated by secretive businessmen, the pair were relaxed and unguarded.
My way of doing business is every four or five years move from one newspaper to another.' Before working at Yedioth, Zahavi, who was then 36, had worked for Hadashot Hasport, a sports newspaper, before leaving after the 1974 World Cup in West Germany. After this 1981 conversation he worked at Yedioth for four more years before moving to another newspaper called just Hadashot; he finally ended his career as a journalist in 1988.
Zahavi has since certainly made money. A close business associate believes he has more than enough - at least £65m - 'to allow him to retire with a very comfortable lifestyle. But he loves the work.'
e is registered as an agent in Israel, so has been outside the jurisdiction of the English Football Association. While Kenyon, Jonathan Barnett - Cole's agent - Mourinho and Chelsea were all disciplined after their meeting became public, the FA and Premier League were unable to investigate Zahavi's role. The FA have now altered their statutes to prevent this happening again, and have asked Fifa to investigate Zahavi's role in the incident.
Zahavi - whose friends include Ehud Olmert, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Reuven Rivlin, a former Speaker of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, and a possible future president - has diversified his interests in recent years. Together with Eli Azur, the owner of several Russian language newspapers in Israel, he owns Charlton, a media company that holds the rights to show the Premiership as well as top-flight domestic matches in Israel (although his popularity at home dipped for the first time when this summer's World Cup was broadcast on pay-per-view television).
Zahavi is not a shareholder in MSI; the company is thought to be owned by Badri Patarkatsishvili, a Georgian billionaire and owner of Dinamo Tbilisi, who is supported in some way by the exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who now lives in London. Zahavi acted as West Ham's agent in the deal that brought the Argentinians to London and so will have been paid for his work in the same way as he was when Abramovich bought Chelsea.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2006/nov/26/football.features
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/5391728/chelsea-chase-ashley-barnes-burnley-pini-zahavi/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/0/the-top-10-most-powerful-agents-in-football/pini-zahavi/
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2006/nov/26/football.features
Contrary to the prevailing notion that the financial dealings of football lack transparency and are orchestrated by secretive businessmen, the pair were relaxed and unguarded.
My way of doing business is every four or five years move from one newspaper to another.' Before working at Yedioth, Zahavi, who was then 36, had worked for Hadashot Hasport, a sports newspaper, before leaving after the 1974 World Cup in West Germany. After this 1981 conversation he worked at Yedioth for four more years before moving to another newspaper called just Hadashot; he finally ended his career as a journalist in 1988.
Zahavi has since certainly made money. A close business associate believes he has more than enough - at least £65m - 'to allow him to retire with a very comfortable lifestyle. But he loves the work.'
e is registered as an agent in Israel, so has been outside the jurisdiction of the English Football Association. While Kenyon, Jonathan Barnett - Cole's agent - Mourinho and Chelsea were all disciplined after their meeting became public, the FA and Premier League were unable to investigate Zahavi's role. The FA have now altered their statutes to prevent this happening again, and have asked Fifa to investigate Zahavi's role in the incident.
Zahavi - whose friends include Ehud Olmert, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Reuven Rivlin, a former Speaker of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, and a possible future president - has diversified his interests in recent years. Together with Eli Azur, the owner of several Russian language newspapers in Israel, he owns Charlton, a media company that holds the rights to show the Premiership as well as top-flight domestic matches in Israel (although his popularity at home dipped for the first time when this summer's World Cup was broadcast on pay-per-view television).
Zahavi is not a shareholder in MSI; the company is thought to be owned by Badri Patarkatsishvili, a Georgian billionaire and owner of Dinamo Tbilisi, who is supported in some way by the exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who now lives in London. Zahavi acted as West Ham's agent in the deal that brought the Argentinians to London and so will have been paid for his work in the same way as he was when Abramovich bought Chelsea.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2006/nov/26/football.features
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/5391728/chelsea-chase-ashley-barnes-burnley-pini-zahavi/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/0/the-top-10-most-powerful-agents-in-football/pini-zahavi/
