{"id":297248,"date":"2023-11-14T16:24:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T16:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=297248"},"modified":"2023-11-14T16:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T16:24:47","slug":"rafael-pimenta-recalls-dealings-with-sir-alex-ferguson-and-man-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/rafael-pimenta-recalls-dealings-with-sir-alex-ferguson-and-man-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Pimenta recalls dealings with Sir Alex Ferguson and Man United"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8216;Sir Alex was so angry, he spilled our tea&#8217;: Mino Raiola&#8217;s successor Rafael Pimenta recalls dealings with Ferguson and Man United &#8211; and why she tried to make Paul Pogba&#8217;s transfer fee \u20ac100,000,001<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rafael Pimenta has spoken on her experience dealing with Sir Alex Ferguson\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The football agent also revealed the details to Paul Pogba&#8217;s record-breaking deal\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It&#8217;s a three-team title race&#8230; Toney could lead Arsenal to glory: It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rafael Pimenta has recalled the details of her meetings with Sir Alex Ferguson and dealing with Paul Pogba&#8217;s record-breaking deal in a new interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pimenta is regarded as one of football&#8217;s biggest agents having worked under Mino Raiolo before inheriting his client base following his death in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian has represented some of football&#8217;s biggest names &#8211; including the likes of Juventus&#8217; Paul Pogba and Manchester City&#8217;s Erling Haaland &#8211; and has previously sat in on the majority of Railo&#8217;s meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And, in a recent interview with The Guardian, Pimenta lifted the lid on some of the more notable negotiations of her career &#8211; such as an intense encounter with Sir Alex Ferguson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the incident, Pimenta explained: &#8216;I cannot call that a meeting. I call it a train crash. It started bad, it ended bad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/15\/77786597-12748125-image-a-12_1699975831781.jpg\" height=\"420\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/15\/77786599-12748125-image-m-11_1699975829489.jpg\" height=\"420\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Agent Rafaela Pimenta (L) reflected on her &#8216;train crash&#8217; meeting with Sir Alex Ferguson (R)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/15\/77786471-12748125-image-a-13_1699975881333.jpg\" height=\"571\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pimenta also revealed the details over Paul Pogba&#8217;s record-breaking move to Man United<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Sir Alex came in and he was so angry that he hit the table and our tea spilled everywhere. He was totally red. Mino was totally angry. It was a disaster&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>As well as reflecting on the meeting with Ferguson, Pimenta also spoke on her close relationship with former Manchester United star Paul Pogba.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She revealed how she played a major role in the midfielder&#8217;s record-breaking move from Man United to Juventus and how she and Raiola orchestrated it so that the fee would surpass that of Gareth Bale&#8217;s transfer from Tottenham to Real Madrid in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>She explained: &#8216;When\u00a0Paul Pogba was transferred back to Manchester United [from Juventus\u00a0in 2016] I said to Mino: &#8216;We need to fix the fee at Bale plus one euro&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Mino said &#8216;Why?&#8217; and I said &#8216;So we can break the world record of Jonathan Barnett [the agent who negotiated\u00a0Gareth Bale&#8217;s transfer from Spurs to Real Madrid\u00a0for \u20ac100m]. It needs to be just \u20ac1 more than Bale.&#8217; In the end it was more&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Pogba and Pimenta share an extremely close relationship, with the football agent being present at all the momentous occasions in his established career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I will always be there for Paul. He&#8217;s a part of my life and I&#8217;m grateful for the way he treated me and always gave us respect,&#8217; Pimenta explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s a great person that has evolved so much, because I met him as a kid. He&#8217;s a father now, with three kids. So he changed so much and he will grow more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/15\/77785403-12748125-image-a-15_1699975922997.jpg\" height=\"759\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pimenta had worked beside super-agent Mino Raiola (L) prior to his death in 2022<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/15\/77786465-12748125-image-a-14_1699975918452.jpg\" height=\"582\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pimenta holds a close relationship with Pogba having worked with him throughout her career<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What I like about Paul is that whenever something negative happens, he does his best to find a lesson in it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Pogba eventually secured the record-breaking to Manchester United, after fierce negotiations from Raiola, Pimenta and their team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder spent six years at Old Trafford before eventually leaving to re-join Juventus in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On August 20th, t<span>he <\/span>Juventus<span> midfielder<\/span> reportedly returned a positive drugs test result after Juventus&#8217; first game of the season<span>\u00a0against Udinese.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12748125\/Sir-Alex-angry-spilled-tea-Mino-Raiolas-successor-Rafael-Pimenta-recalls-dealings-Ferguson-Man-United-tried-make-Paul-Pogbas-transfer-fee-100-000-001.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Sir Alex was so angry, he spilled our tea&#8217;: Mino Raiola&#8217;s successor Rafael Pimenta recalls dealings with Ferguson and Man United &#8211; 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