De Ligt writes an open letter to Raiola after his death

Agent

Mino Raiola

helped

Matthijs de Ligt

move from the

youth academy to an expensive defender in the world of football.

The representative made the transfer to Juventus happen in 2019 for a deal worth €85.5m. Raiola passed away yesterday suffering from a long illness.

“Dear Mino, I honestly am not ready to write this message and I think I never will be,”

wrote the Dutch international on

Instagram

.

“It’s too early for us players, for your family but especially for you. You had so many dreams to fulfill, so many things left to do.

“I thought you were crazy when you told me about the things you were planning, but you were always right in the end. You knew how the world worked. Nothing is impossible and you showed that to the whole world.

“The moment I met you for the first time I knew you were someone special. Completely different than me but we had one thing in common. We wanted to do our job as good as possible and get everything out of our lives.

“You fought for your players together with your team and that’s why you were so loved by all of them. Because as you always said: they are my sons, my family.

“And now it’s time we have to change roles: you did everything for us and now we have to do everything for the people you loved the most, your family. I promise you we will take care of everything that you loved together as your ‘sons.’

“Mino, I will miss you for everything. Like you said to be the bad guy against everybody for me, to be my agent but especially to be my best friend.

“Someone who I could always ask for help, who was ready to fight for me, but also someone with whom I could talk about life in general. Someone who knew so much about certain things that I am angry with myself I didn’t ask you more.

“I am sure at some point I can ask you more and cuddle you again because I miss you already way too much. I love you Mino.”

Raiola was working with some well-known players like

striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, former

midfielder Paul Pogba and of course De Ligt.

He was born in Italy but was raised in the Netherlands. He managed to build an empire said to be worth more than €90m.

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