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Footballs first and only super agent

Footballs first and only super agent

The Observer today has "the first major interview" with "super-agent" Pini Zahavi.

According to Jamie Jackson, Zahavi "is estimated to have earned as much as �5m from the �111m" that Chelsea spent in the summer of 2003.

Zahavi, who has been one of the chief beneficiaries of the Abramovich revolution rhetorically asks "What was Chelsea before Roman came? It was two days before going bankrupt. The situation was a disaster. The chief executive at the time [Trevor Birch] came and he really begged. Help me, he said. We cannot pay the salaries. Now, Chelsea are one of the best teams in the world. And thats because of Roman Abramovichs money."

Jackson concludes: "Anything seems possible in the world of Pini Zahavi, and his influence seems to have no limits."

The Observer Sport Monthly congratulate themselves on "the first major interview" with Zahavi, but in an interview beefed up with opinions ranging from Jimmy Hill to Gordon Taylor, they have failed to question the ethics of this "super-agent". Sadly the interview reads like a PR piece for the agent, when surely more could have been done to question why one man (not a player or manager) has made so much money from the beautiful game.

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