‘Sir Alex was so angry, he spilled our tea’: Mino Raiola’s successor Rafael Pimenta recalls dealings with Ferguson and Man United – and why she tried to make Paul Pogba’s transfer fee β¬100,000,001
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Rafael Pimenta has reflected on her interactions with Sir Alex Ferguson and working on Paul Pogba’s record-breaking move to Manchester United in a new interview.
Pimenta is considered one of the greatest football agents. He worked under Mino Raiolo before inheriting his client base after his death in 2022.
The Brazilian has represented some of football’s biggest names, including Juventus’ Paul Pogba and Manchester City’s Erling Haaland, and has previously attended most of Railo’s meetings.
In an interview with The guardPimenta lifted the lid on some of the more notable negotiations of her career, including an intense meeting with Sir Alex Ferguson.
Speaking about the incident, Pimenta explained: βI can’t call that a meeting. I call it a train wreck. It started bad, it ended bad.
Officer Rafaela Pimenta (L) reflects on her encounter during the train crash with Sir Alex Ferguson (R)
Pimenta also revealed the details of Paul Pogba’s record-breaking move to Man United
‘Sir Alex came in and he was so angry he hit the table and spilled our tea everywhere. He was completely red. Mino was completely angry. It was a disaster’.
As well as reflecting on the meeting with Ferguson, Pimenta also spoke about her close relationship with former Manchester United star Paul Pogba.
She revealed how she was instrumental in the midfielder’s record-breaking move from Man United to Juventus and how she and Raiola orchestrated it so that the fee would exceed that of Gareth Bale’s transfer from Tottenham to Real Madrid in 2013.
She explained: ‘When Paul Pogba was transferred back to Manchester United (from Juventus in 2016) I said to Mino: ‘We have to fix the fee on Bale plus one euro’.
‘Mino said, ‘Why?’ and I said: ‘So we can break Jonathan Barnett’s world record (the agent who negotiated the transfer of Gareth Bale from Spurs to Real Madrid for β¬100 million). It should only be one euro more than Bale.’ In the end it was more’.
Pogba and Pimenta have an extremely close relationship, with the football agent present for all the key events in his established career.
‘I will always be there for Paul. He is part of my life and I am grateful for the way he treated me and always gave us respect,β Pimenta explains.
βHe is an amazing person who has evolved so much because I met him as a child. He is now a father, with three children. So he has changed so much and he will grow even more.
Pimenta worked with super agent Mino Raiola (L) before his death in 2022.
Pimenta has a close relationship with Pogba and has worked with him throughout her career
“What I like about Paul is that when something negative happens, he does his best to learn a lesson from it.”
Pogba eventually secured Manchester United’s record, after fierce negotiations from Raiola, Pimenta and their team.
The midfielder spent six years at Old Trafford before eventually leaving for Juventus in 2022.
On August 20 tHe Juventus midfielder reportedly returned a positive drug test result after Juventus’ first match of the season against Udinese.
