It is based around a fictional investigative journalist called Annabel and one of its more colourful aspects is the “Table” which “is a group of powerful agents who control the world of football” and who meet to decide “which coach goes where, which player goes where”. Sogut’s thriller novel sounds like something of a romp. I’m leaving it for the reader to decide – it’s not illegal but is it ethical?” But Ferguson, he was saying agents are the worst in this business but his son became an agent? I'm not saying they are bad people. ![]() ![]() Ferguson is gone, he’s not there anymore. “ Rummenigge, Hoeness, they don’t work at Bayern Munich any more. If I want to tell the stories I don’t care about the consequences of boards or their club now. Football is a daily business and they quickly forget about anything. “You know people come and go and you know if you have a valuable player they come back to you. I am a lawyer as well, so… I'm not scared about losing out on business. I am not saying something that is not out there and it’s legally correct. Is he not worried about libelling them, not least by inference? “Like why?” Sogut says. It is a work of fiction because, he says, it is “the best way to tell stories” but there are real-life references such as Sir Alex Ferguson giving his brother, Martin, a job as Manchester United’s chief European scout and his son, Darren, playing for the club. Sogut’s novel is the first in a series he is planning on issues in football: nepotism, then child trafficking and then racism. I can't see that – it will be Fenerbahce and that’s it,” he says. “I think he will not play football in any other club any more. He has two more years left on his contract and if he is forced out he is more likely to retire than seek another club. ![]() Ozil eventually joined Turkish giants Fenerbahce, after his Arsenal contract was terminated six months early in January 2021, and his future there is now in question after he was excluded from the squad with new coach Jorge Jesus suggesting his time was over. It is a statement that will surely grate with Arsenal fans given the manner in which Ozil’s eight years at the club unhappily petered out and how there were allegations that he already spent too much time playing video games. ![]() He has football, like Fifa, and Fortnite.” “He owns a team – M10 Esports – and he has players. Really? “He’s really good, to be honest, at Fortnite and I think one day I wouldn’t be surprised if he is competing,” Sogut says. “He will go more into esports, play himself and maybe become an esports athlete,” he says of the 33-year-old. Sogut then states how his star client Ozil – who he calls the “Muhammad Ali of football” – was worth every penny of the £350,000-a-week he earned at Arsenal before revealing the midfielder is likely to become an esports player, a professional video-gamer, when his football career ends. He breezes through the plot of the novel he has written, ‘Deadline’, about nepotism in football – name-checking the influence of the Fergusons at Manchester United and the Rummenigges and Hoenesses at Bayern Munich. The former Arsenal star's agent Dr Erkut Sogut lifts the lid on Ozil's time at the Emirates and a possible future in EsportsĪn interview with Mesut Ozil’s agent Dr Erkut Sogut is certainly entertaining. Exclusive interview: 'When Mesut Ozil quits football he will become a professional gamer'
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