During the World Football Summit, agent Mino Raiola hit back at critics by comparing Zlatan and his clients to a legendary performance artist.
Agent Mino Raiola keeps taking Zlatan and his clients’ values to the extreme. During the World Football Summit, he was questioned about the price cap he puts on all his clients. It is well-known that in the past, the Italian agent put a hefty price on players like Zlatan Ibrahimovic or Paul Pogba.
Inflating the market in such a reckless manner has always been criticized by the media and Raiola tends to be right in the middle of it. The man always gets slammed for going after the money before anything else. But in Mino’s view, putting a price cap on the best players in the world is an insult.
This is how he decided to compare his footballers like Zlatan Ibrahimovic or Paul Pogba to legendary artists such as Banksy, Da Vinci, or Rembrandt. Perhaps you might think he is taking this too far but just look at how the people react to Diego Maradona’s death. For hundreds of millions of people around the world, the best footballers out there are artists.
Raiola goes after FIFA for trying to limit him.
If you take a look at the manufacture in Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s goals or Paul Pogba’s clinical passing, perhaps Mino has a point: “When FIFA decide to introduce a salary cap, it’ll mean clubs are no longer capable of making their own decisions,” said Raiola via Football Italia.
“Some clubs are floated on the stock exchange, so FIFA can’t order them how to go about their business. It’s obvious that the transfer market no longer works the way FIFA want, because players can make their own decisions, they are assets in this sport.
“If we put a salary cap on players, then you should do it for everything. Cap transfers, cap directors, and their salaries. Real Madrid and Barcelona get billions in revenue, should we demand they put a cap on their ticket prices? In that case, bring in a salary cap for actors, for journalists, for artists.
“Would you put a salary cap on Banksy, Leonardo Da Vinci, or Rembrandt? How can you put a cap on talent? We are in a Capitalist world, but Gianni Infantino wants us to become North Korea. I have no problem with North Korea, but he can go live there and not me.”
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