article_snippet.sent: Jorge Mendes has worked closely with the La Liga club and with the La Liga club managing director Miguel angel Gil Marin across the last five years and there is no question the La Liga club have benefited from a healthy relationship with the world’s most prolific agent.
article_snippet.sent: the La Liga club was bordering on comical in 2010 when the Globe Soccer Awards in Dubai picked Gil as the Globe Soccer Awards in Dubai sports director of the year.
article_snippet.sent: Jorge Mendes played a large part in the setting up of the annual awards – Jorge Mendes has won agent of the year every year since the Globe Soccer Awards in Dubai inauguration.
article_snippet.sent: Radamel Falcao (right), formerly of Atletico, sits with super-agent Jorge Mendes (left) during a match in France .
article_snippet.sent: Jorge Mendes domination of the best agent award was easier to justify than Gil’s prize the year, coming as the best agent award did when Atletico were still hugely indebted to Spain’s Inland Revenue and forced to fire sell every summer.
article_snippet.sent: But Gil has led Atletico out of trouble.
article_snippet.sent: Gil has picked Gil agent friends well, worked the loophole in the system – one
article_snippet.sent: Mendes it was who discovered Costa and brought Gil to Madrid via Portugal.
article_snippet.sent: The super-agent can also claim to have been the man who saw the huge potential in the unrefined Brazilian front man, overruling scouts that he usually trusted without question and signing the youngster from Lagarto thus beginning the process of making he one of Europe’s top striker.