GONDOMAR, PORTUGAL – JULY 04: Jorge Mendes, agent of Diogo Jota, attends a public wake held for Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva at the Capela da Ressurreicao on July 04, 2025 in Gondomar, Portugal. Diogo Jota was a professional football player for Liverpool FC and the Portuguese national team, while Andre Silva played for FC Penafiel in Portugal’s second tier. The wake, attended by friends, fellow players and the Portuguese president, comes the day after the brothers died in a car accident in the province of Zamora, Spain. (Photo by Octavio Passos/Getty Images)
Jorge Mendes is emerging as the key behind the new Milan transfer strategy, as after a €70m deal for PSG striker Goncalo Ramos, he’s working to bring in Marc Casadó from Barcelona.
It is hardly new that agent Mendes has very strong links with the Rossoneri, as he already helped engineer moves for Pervis Estupinan, Joao Felix, Andre Silva and of course coach Sergio Conceicao, amongst others.
Now that Milan have scrapped the roles of technical director and director of sport for a more streamlined club structure, coach Ruben Amorim is given more power, and that also means consulting with Mendes.
Mendes pulling Milan strings
According to multiple sources including Sport in Spain and Sportitalia, he is now working on bringing midfielder Casadó to Milan from Barcelona.
The Spain international turns 23 in September and is a product of their youth academy, promoted to the senior squad in 2024.
He made 34 appearances for the Blaugrana this season, contributing one assist, but only 15 of those were in the starting XI.
Meanwhile, questions are growing over the sheer size of the fee reportedly agreed with Paris Saint-Germain for Goncalo Ramos, which many sources maintain will be €70m.
It’s the club record by a massive degree, crushing the previous best of €49.4m paid for Rafael Leao, and even that wasn’t done entirely in one go.
It remains to be seen how much of this fee is going to Mendes in commissions, and how fair that is if he is also effectively working as an adjunct Milan director of sport.