When a football agent is a household name, it’s rarely seen as a good thing. And in English football, the name Kia Joorabchian elicits memories of third-party ownership, Carlos Tevez and one particularly controversial relegation.
There are agents who slip under the radar and agents who make the back pages. Joorabchian is the latter, and, unsurprisingly, Arsenal fans are worried he may be meddling in north London.
Joorabchain has a relationship with Gunners’ technical director, Edu - although the club are keen to stress he is not the ex-midfielder's agent - and the club's head of football, Raul Sanllehi, sparking concerns that the super-agent is now playing a role in dictating transfers at The Emirates.
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