Football super-agent Mino Raiola, who is known to have the likes of Erling Haaland and Paul Pogba among his clients, is reportedly fighting for his life in hospital.
The agent, aged 54, is said to have suffered with lung disease over the past few months.
According to the Daily Mail, Raiola was hospitalised in January 2022 and underwent surgery.
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It is further claimed that, at the time, his condition posed no fatal threat and that Raiola would continue with his recovery at his home. However, his condition has now worsened, and he has been placed in intensive care in a Milan hospital.
There were reports earlier on Thursday that he had passed away, but these have proved to be wide of the mark, with The New York Times writer Tariq Panja taking to Twitter to write: "Just received a call from a prominent British agent and close friend of Mino Raiola to say that the Italian-Dutch agent has not died but is 'very, very ill'. Says reports of his friend's death are inaccurate."
Raiola boasts a star-studded clientele, including the Paris Saint-Germain duo Marco Verratti and Gianluigi Donnarumma.
In 2016, it is understood that he netted £20 million (R396 million) from Pogba's record-breaking £89 million (R1.7 billion) switch from Juventus to Manchester United.
UPDATE: Raiola has released a statement of his own on reports of his "death", writing on Twitter: "Current health status for the ones wondering: pissed off second time in 4 months they kill me. Seem also able to resuscitate."
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