Super-agent Mino Raiola is in line for another mega financial windfall this summer as he plots Romelu Lukaku’s move away from Everton, with the striker valued at £100million.
Super-agent Mino Raiola is in line for another mega financial windfall this summer as he plots Romelu Lukaku’s move away from Everton.
Raiola will again be at the centre of potentially the biggest transfer in football history as he looks to move Lukaku out of Goodison Park.
Everton have placed a £100million price tag on Lukaku, which would eclipse Paul Pogba’s £89.3million move to United from Juventus.
Sportsmail exclusively disclosed the astronomical amount — £22.8m — Raiola took home for Pogba’s world-record transfer fee.
In total he earned a staggering £41.39m for taking Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Manchester United last year
But despite Lukaku’s world-record valuation, Raiola’s slice of the Belgian’s move away from Goodison Park looks certain to fall way short of £41m.
Belgian agent Christophe Hentoray orchestrated Lukaku’s £28m switch to Merseyside in 2014 — before losing the player to Raiola in 2015 — so no sell-on deal is in place for Raiola.
But he is likely to push for a wage of at least £200,000 a week for Lukaku and would pocket at least £2.5m over a five-year deal.
And he could use his relationship with United — and their interest in Lukaku — to force the player’s wages up… and boost his own cut.
Raiola’s existing relationship with United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward could have paved the way for Lukaku to join United but Jose Mourinho still needs convincing about a player he sold as Chelsea manager.
It is understood that Lukaku has made a return to Stamford Bridge his preferred destination, but it is understood Raiola does not share the sort of relationship with Chelsea as he does with the United hierarchy.
Stamford Bridge chiefs have no problem dealing with Raiola this summer, but sources insist Chelsea will not be so accommodating with regards to such hefty payments to Raiola.
Nevertheless, the Italian-born negotiator looks set for yet another whopping summer payday if Lukaku leaves Everton.
