Since the appointment of Luis Campos in 2022 as PSG sports advisor, Jorge Mendes' influence within the Parisian club has continued to grow. The Portuguese player agent, essential in the world of football, seems to play a key role behind the scenes at PSG, where his extensive network does not fail to raise questions. Some observers believe that Luis Campos could be at the center of several controversial transfers, particularly thanks to his close ties with Mendes.
Since the time when Mino Raiola played a key role alongside Leonardo, notably for the arrival of figures such as Maxwell or Zlatan Ibrahimovica new privileged relationship has been established within the PSG. Indeed, Luis Campos, current sports advisor of the club, maintains close links with Jorge Mendeshis fellow Portuguese and one of the most powerful agents on the market. If this collaboration allowed the PSG to strengthen its workforce, it is not without raising questions about the transparency and legitimacy of certain transfers made in recent years.
The transfers of Ugarte and Renato in the viewfinder
Romain Molina points in particular to the transfers of Manuel Ugarte and of Renato Sanches. « Campos arrives, he brings back Renato Sanches for €15M. And next to it, there is Soler. That is 30M€ which is of no use. These two players do not have the level for PSG and came because Lim is a friend of Nasser and Sanches is part of the Jorge Mendes galaxy. Ugarte? If Manchester United is in competition with Chelsea, there is a problem. As with Ramos, there is the influence of an agent, Jorge Mendes. That's a lot of agent play. Like many, he was overpaid,” the journalist blurted out YouTube. But it's not just at PSG where Campos has been acting up. Indeed, he could well have played a bad trick at LOSC during the sale of Victor Osimhen to Napoli.
Campos in the scheme for Osimhen?
The president of Mastiffs made serious revelations on this subject on the set of The Evening Team and given the role he occupied at the time, Luis Campos could once again be involved. Sold for €70M, the attacker only brought in €7M at LOSC. « The net received between the sale of Osimhen, which was not €68M, because it must be remembered that there were 4 players who arrived for €20M, so the value was in reality zero. And so if we balance the purchase of the player, all the intermediaries, the capital gains, the commissions, the sale, the players who arrived, there are approximately 7 million who went into the club's coffers, 7 millions, that is to say that LOSC earned a lot more money with Carlos Baléba, with Amadou Onana, with Sven Botman, with Leny Yoro enormously. Because indeed on the players that we sold, there were no more kickbacks, commissions, intermediaries and so on, that is to say that the money came into the club's coffers », revealed the former sports director of PSG. Luis Campos maybe that has something to do with it…
