Tottenham Talk on Ilaix Moriba

Tottenham Talk on Ilaix Moriba


Iliax-Moriba

As you are all well aware, we are trying to sign Barcelona wonderkid Iliax Moriba, the highest paid Barcelona B player in their history.

I brought you details of the deal but also explained the situation with his greedy agents so simply want him to go to a club where they make the most money, rather than what might be best for the lads actual career.

He and his family had to come out of a war zone to eventually find themselves at Barcelona's academy La Maisa (translated means The Farmhouse).

This is also the name of their training facilities, originally located near the Camp Nou in the Les Corts district of Barcelona and last refurbished 55 years ago.

The raw cost of sending a player to Barça Residency is in excess of $70,000 a year (£50,854 - €59,342 - AUS$95,733). 

For many players, that is beyond what their families can afford. Their saving grace is that the Barça Residency is a scholarship program.

It stands to reason you have got to be a talented youngster to go there.

So Moriba finds himself there, has come through the system and has been making first team appearances.

His agents then decided he should be paid as if he is an established star.

This post is going to look into their agents and is done so through a bit of Spanish investigative journalism [𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗼 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼 @Boncopdefail].

You will then see the type of people we are trying to do business with to secure his services.

The story of Ilaix Moriba is the paradigm of the evil that representation agencies do. Ilaix's trusted advisor is Brais Lorenzo, a Galician who worked at Stellar Group, the company of Gareth Bale's agent. He recently moved to Rogon and Ilaix followed him.

Rogon, which is a representation company that until two days ago had no presence in Spain, this spring it has entered strong not only by signing Ilaix but also several promising Celta players through the influence of Brais Lorenzo and his clients from his time with Stellar.

Rogon has his most important clients in the figure of players who are in the Bundesliga or have passed through the Bundesliga as Roberto Firmino, Julian Draxler, Marcel Sabitzer or Tilo Kehrer. And Rogon has a deal to bring Ilaix to Leipzig for a hefty fee.

The strategy that Rogon has followed since he signed Ilaix Moriba last May has been to give him to Barça with the renewal and to take him to Germany. Lepizig didn't show their face until the end of August, presenting a shameful first offer of €6m.

I say shameful offer because if the salary figures demanded by the agency representing Ilaix to Barça are true, Leipzig are clearly willing to pay a salary that corresponds to a player much more valuable than the €8m that the Germans have set themselves.

The issue is that Leipzig's low offer for Ilaix and the low commission that Rogon will earn are communicating vessels. The more Barça charge the less Ilaix will charge and the less commission Rogon will earn. 10 years of training vs 3 months of representation. Carronyers purs. Parasites.

Barça's refusal to accept Leipzig's low offers (this is what Rogon was hoping to achieve by delaying the negotiation until the end of the season, hoping that Barça would give in to the prospect of losing him for free) has complicated the deal.

Barça have not stood still, they have been in contact with other interested teams and have higher offers, such as Tottenham. Rogon does not even want to talk about it because there is no commission or it is not so succulent. But Ilaix does see with good eyes to go to the Premier League.

And what at the beginning was a concord between the player and his representatives to cardar (criminal who steals) to Barça now is the will of the representatives to cardar to the player, that faced with the prospect of staying 1 year without playing prefers to leave now, unlike Rogon who only sees that he will be able to play in the Premier League.

An ambitious young agent who has just changed companies and needs to justify his profile. A player who has been seduced by promises and suddenly sees his sporting career take a back seat. A family environment probably obsessed with making money fast.

Nothing in all this avoidable merder (screw up) is related to football and the main victim is Ilaix himself, trapped in the middle of the interests of the different parties involved. At the age of 18 he had the chance to be important in a club like Barça. Now he is a commodity.

There are reports, which I brought you, of his father wanting a fee .

To mortgage the player's career like this they have to go to the families offering money to buy the "child's" soul. Clearly they have, you have to feel sorry for him and wonder how he can extricate himself from all this.

So to sum up, Rogon (company) want Barcelona to receive little or no fee so they earn big out of moving Moriba.

Barcelona want a fee for him to go, lowering the commission Rogon would receive.

Moriba's father wants, or has been promised by Rogon, a €15m (£12.85m - US$17.69m - AUS$24.20m) fee if Barcelona let him go for free.

The plan has been to move him as a free agent next summer but because he won't sign a new contract, Barcelona have said he won't play a minute of first team football this season.

Moriba doesn't want that so has to therefore leave.

The battle now is who earns out of it, the agents and father are simply trying to maximise their income.

Parasites.

You can see how the agents fee and fathers payoff suddenly make the cost of the deal so much more than is being reported and this is just one transfer.

Whether this deal goes through or not will be entirely around the agents and father's earnings from it.

Well that's it folks.
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