Investigation: the mandates of the teams to the prosecutors: all the numbers

In 2022, Serie A companies distributed 709 mandates to agents to conclude market operations. The club that used intermediaries the most is Juventus, with 65 mandates conferred, followed by Sampdoria with 57 and Empoli with 54. Among the agents, however, the three who worked the most were Giuseppe Riso (32 mandates), Michelangelo Minieri (24) and Gabriele Giuffrida (23).

Here are some of the most interesting data that can be obtained from the 2022 report put online by the FIGC and which allow you to take a picture of how the market operations were concluded. There are three types of mandates: the one that a club gives to work on the sale of a player, the one that a club gives to work on the purchase of a player and the one that is given to the agent to work on the contract of the player he assists. Whether it’s a first deal with that club or a renewal. Two agents are involved in many of the operations.

Society

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As mentioned, Juventus leads the standings with 65 mandates, many of which have been used for business related to the Next Gen, both incoming (Iocolano, Mbangula, Riccio, Ntenda, etc.) and outgoing (Olivieri, Frabotta, De Winter, Nicolussi Caviglia, etc. ). For the operation Milik, who arrived on loan from Marseille, was paid a double mandate to David Przemysław Pantak, ditto to Simone Rondanini, to bring Paredes from PSG to Turin, and to Dejan Grgic to close the Vlahovic “coup” in January 2022. Raffaela Pimenta instead collaborated with the bianconeri for the free transfer Pogba and for Wesley. Behind the black and white club is Sampdoria with 57 mandates: 9 of which to Gabriele Giuffrida who oversaw the operations related to Winks, Djuricic and Bereszynski, among others. Empoli is in third place with 54, followed by Salernitana which passed from the management of Walter Sabatini to that of Morgan De Sanctis with the common denominator of the many mandates (53) to the prosecutors. There are 4 companies over 50; behind them Cremonese (43), who became the protagonist of a summer market with many movements to try to strengthen the squad, and Bologna (41). Lazio are at the bottom of the standings with 16, Napoli with 17, Spezia with 20 and Sassuolo with 21. The number of mandates signed is often correlated with the ranking of expenditure for agents: in the table we published yesterday Juventus it is clearly in the lead with 51.3 million spent, but this is money that does not refer only to operations closed in 2022, but also to payments made for business in previous years. Ditto those of other clubs who have settled debts with intermediaries that had been … in installments. That’s why the expenses of Roma second (21.1 million) and Inter (20.5) are so higher than those of the other greats (12 for Milan and Naples, just 6 for the virtuous Lazio). Torino is the most attentive to agents’ fees with just 2 million budgeted: no maxi commissions, but mandates used for shrewd operations.

Agents

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Chapter of attorneys: in 2022 the one who had the most mandates was Giuseppe Riso with 32. Among others, he oversaw 6 operations for Monza (Sensi, Pessina, Petagna, Bettella, Sampirisi and Rovella), 3 with Juve (Rovella Mulazzi and Barbieri), Spezia (Serpe, Caldara and Maldini) and Turin (Baselli, Pellegri and Demba Seck). Behind him, with 24, Minieri who dealt with 4 operations linked to Fiorentina (Ghilardi, Assane Seck, Gentile and Cerofolini), 3 with Empoli (Cambiaghi, A. Seck and Bandinelli) and with Verona (2 with Ghilardi and one to Conti). Gabriele Giuffrida was very active with Samp as well as overseeing the transfer of Vicario from Cagliari to Empoli, while Paolo Busardo (17 mandates) worked for 8 different clubs (Atalanta, Bologna, Empoli, Verona, Inter, Juve, Rome and Turin). About forty agents who have closed more than 5 deals.