GestiFute

Players investment

GestiFute involved in numbers of high profile move in European transfer market, such as Cristiano Ronaldo. Before FIFA set up a new law restricting third party ownership (with "significant influence"), GestiFute was actively involved in third parties ownership. However, it in fact conflict of interests, as GestiFute was both the owner and the agent of the player. After 2008, GestiFute only received agent fees for the deals the company broke, and not actively in third parties ownership. However a portion of the million transfer deal (such as 5%) was already half of, or even exceeded, the annual salary of the player.

2003–2006

On 9 March 2003, GestiFute announced that they represent Benfica's midfielder Tiago, who was previously represented by their rival company, Superfute. Approximately two months later, on 23 May, Tiago's teammate Ricardo Rocha traveled the same path, making a surprising move to GestiFute. During the summer of that year, on 29 July, Porto bought 20% of Deco's economic rights from GestiFute for €2.25 million, plus 5% of Paulo Ferreira and Ricardo Carvalho's economic rights, this price being higher than presumed because the Portuguese team refused a €15 million offer from Barcelona. On 4 April, the same team bought more 15% of Deco's economic rights for €1.25 million, plus 10% of striker Benni McCarthy's rights. After acquiring 35% rights, however, Porto still owned 85% rights before he was sold.

In 2004, some players represented by GestiFute were transferred for record prices, the first being Porto defender Paulo Ferreira, who joined Chelsea in a €20 million deal on 22 June. One month later, on 27 July, Ferreira's teammate Ricardo Carvalho also made a move to Chelsea, for a fee of €30 million. Deco was also later bought by Barcelona, but for less than Ferreira and Carvalho — Barcelona agreed on a €15 million fee in cash, in addition to the full rights of winger Ricardo Quaresma, who was valued at €6 million.

In 2005, on 14 June, GestiFute acquired a reported 70% of midfielder Anderson's economic rights for €5.5 million. Anderson, who was playing for Grêmio at the time, signed for the company after it was determined he would not feature for Grêmio again. Some days later, on 21 June, Porto bought Anderson, with GestiFute retaining a reported 20% of the Brazilian's rights"Jose agent's £4m jackpot on Anderson", The Evening Standard, 1 June 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2010. with the club retaining 65% economic rights. Later that year, on 9 December, Tunisian midfielder Selim Benachour of Vitória de Guimarães also signed for GestiFute. On 1 December 2006, 18-year-old midfielder Fábio Coentrão joined GestiFute.

2007–2010

In 2007, GestiFute's Jorge Mendes was responsible for the transfers of Pepe, who joined Real Madrid from Porto for €30 million; Simão, who was transferred from Benfica to Atlético Madrid for €20 million; and Nani, who moved to Manchester United from Sporting CP after he dropped his previous agent, Ana Almeida. Also in that year, Anderson also moved to Manchester United in a €30 million deal, with previous club Porto paying Mendes a reported €3 million for his share of Anderson's registration.

In August 2010, football agent Gonçalo Reis complained that he had been left on the sidelines when Bébé, a player he represented, was transferred to Manchester United from Vitória de Guimarães. "When [Jorge] Mendes arrived," he said, "I was out of the transaction." Reis had arranged Bébé's move to Vitória from Estrela da Amadora in the Portuguese third division in July 2010 after the cancellation of his contract due to the club's inability to pay the player's wages. Manchester United signed Bébé for a reported fee of £7.4 million five weeks later. Then-United manager Sir Alex Ferguson admitted that he had not seen Bébé play. Gestifute apparently received 30% of the transfer fee for their part ownership of the player's economic rights. Vitória's directors reported that Mendes had received €3.6 million of the €9 million fee from the deal, with reports in Portugal suggesting that €2.7 million of that sum came from the 30% of the player's economic rights initially retained by Bébé but bought from the player by Mendes for €100,000.Conn, David. "How Manchester United's Bébé went from street kid to €9m player", The Guardian, 20 January 2011. Retrieved 20 January 2011.

In the summer of 2008, GestiFute also signed 15% economic rights of Pelé, as the latter was the piece-weigh of Internazionale to sign Ricardo Quaresma. Quaresma himself joined Inter for €18.6 million plus Pelé, was also represented by GestiFute. In June 2009, GestiFute signed Alexis Quintulen's 35% rights and Ignacio Ameli's 50% rights for €473,000.

In the same season Bébé left Portugal, GestiFute also broke the deal of Ángel Di María to Real Madrid for €25 million plus a €11 million bonus. Two year before, GestiFute purchased 33% of the player's economic rights from Benfica for €800 million, which Benfica the remain 70% earlier in August for €1 billion.

2011–

In August 2011, Porto sold striker Radamel Falcao for €40 million to Atlético Madrid. GestiFute and Orel B.V. received a total of €3.705 million agent fee (unknown ratio between the two company). GestiFute later (or before the deal) became the agent of the player. That season, GestiFute also represented Benfica's Fábio Coentrão in his €30 million deal to Real Madrid.

Clients

Current

GestiFute provide agency services for the following players:

• Brazil Alan
• Albania Albion Avdijaj
• Brazil Alípio
• Brazil Anderson
• Netherlands Djavan Anderson
• Portugal André Geraldes
• Portugal André Gomes
• Portugal André Moreira
• Portugal André Silva
• Spain Ansu Fati
• Portugal Bebé
• Portugal Bernardo Silva
• Portugal José Bosingwa
• Portugal Bruno Alves
• Portugal Bruno Gama
• Spain Burgui
• Portugal Cândido Costa
• Portugal Cícero
• Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo
• Portugal Custódio
• Portugal Daniel Podence
• Portugal Danny
• Spain David de Gea
• Argentina Ángel Di María
• Spain Diego Costa
• Portugal Dinis Almeida
• Portugal Diogo Gonçalves
• Portugal Diogo Jota
• Portugal Diogo Salomão
• Russia Artem Dzyuba
• Brazil Ederson
• Netherlands Anwar El Ghazi
• Portugal Fábio Coentrão
• Brazil Fabinho
• Portugal Fábio Cardoso
• Colombia Radamel Falcao
• Argentina Facundo Ferreyra
• Algeria Faouzi Ghoulam
• Brazil Filipe Augusto
• Brazil Gabriel Paulista
• Brazil Gabrielzinho
• Argentina Ezequiel Garay
• Portugal Gil Dias
• Portugal Gonçalo Cardoso
• Portugal Gonçalo Guedes
• Algeria Okacha Hamzaoui
• Egypt Ahmed Hassan
• Angola Hélder Costa
• Portugal Henrique Hilário
• Portugal Hugo Almeida
• Portugal Hugo Viana
• Portugal Ivan Cavaleiro
• Portugal João Cancelo
• Portugal João Carvalho
• Portugal João Gamboa
• Portugal João Moutinho
• Portugal João Teixeira
• Portugal Jorge Ribeiro
• Portugal José Sá
• Portugal Júlio Alves
• Switzerland Pajtim Kasami
• Austria Johannes Kreidl
• Portugal Manuel Fernandes
• Spain Marco Asensio
• Portugal Mário Sérgio
• Portugal Miguel Veloso
• Brazil Miranda
• Portugal Moreno
• Portugal Nani
• Portugal Nélson Oliveira
• Portugal Nélson Semedo
• Argentina Nicolás Otamendi
• Portugal Nuno Morais
• Portugal Paulo Ferreira
• Portugal Pedro Neto
• Portugal Pelé
• Portugal Pepe
• Portugal Pizzi
• Portugal Ricardo Quaresma
• Mexico Rafael Márquez
• Portugal Raul Meireles
• Portugal Renato Sanches
• Portugal Ricardo Carvalho
• Portugal Ricardo Carvalho (born 1996)
• Portugal Ricardo Pereira
• Portugal Roderick Miranda
• Portugal Rodrigo Fernandes
• Peru Alberto Rodríguez
• Colombia James Rodríguez
• Portugal Rúben Dias
• Portugal Rúben Micael
• Portugal Rúben Neves
• Portugal Rúben Vezo
• Portugal Rui Patrício
• Brazil Sidnei
• Portugal Simão
• Brazil Thiago Silva
• Portugal Tiago
• Portugal Tiago Pinto
• Portugal Tiago Sá
• Portugal Ukra
• Netherlands Mitchell van Rooijen
• Brazil Vinicius Alves
• Portugal Vítor Gomes
• Montenegro Nikola Vukčević
• Brazil Wallace
• Portugal Walter Patrick
• Switzerland Andi Zeqiri Coach
• Portugal Abel Ferreira
• Portugal Bruno Lage
• Portugal Capucho
• Portugal Costinha
• Portugal José Mourinho
• Portugal Nuno Espírito Santo
• Portugal Paulo Fonseca
• Portugal Rui Faria

Former

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