Neither Cristiano Ronaldo nor Zlatan Ibrahimovic's outspoken representatives are the most powerful agents in football – so who is?
Click through the gallery above to see football's top agents, their maximum commission received and biggest clients, according to Forbes.
The world's 50 leading sports agents closed contracts worth more than $41.2 billion in 2020, netting $1.9 billion in commissions.
Seven of the top 50 sports agents work only in football, with Gareth Bale's representative Jonathan Barnett being the most powerful one in the beautiful game.
The mega-agent negotiated $1.42 billion in active contracts and has netted his agency $142.3 million in commissions, according to Forbes.
He has dropped to second place on the overall list, but remained ahead of Jorge Mendes and Mino Raiola among the football representatives.
Ronaldo's agent, Mendes, sits in third place on the overall Forbes Rich List and is second among football's mega-agents.
His agency Gestifute has negotiated contracts worth $1 billion and received commissions of around $104 million.
Raiola, who represents the likes of Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba, appears in fourth overall and third among the football agents, brokering deals worth $847.7 million and receiving commissions of $84.7 million.
Volker Struth, Toni Kroos' representative, sits in 15th place overall with commissions of $41.8 million, while Romelu Lukaku agent Federico Pastorello appears in 19th spot on the list, despite his commissions being undisclosed.
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Frank Trimboli, Raphael Varane's agent sits in 25th, while Meissa N'Diaye, whose biggest client is Benjamin Mendy, appears in 36th.
FIFA allows football agents to receive 10% in commission, whereas other sports only allow lower percentages between 3% and 5%, which has resulted in three top football agents among the world's five most powerful agents.
