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In the world of football, it’s all about winning and making money. It’s usually an impossible mission for front offices and it’s a balance that only a special few clubs around the world are able to maintain, considering you have to juggle between talent acquisition, trophies, ambitions and investments that are often excessive, especially in the top European leagues.
French side Lille OSC might be the only true team to check off all those boxes. In an analysis conducted by the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) that focused on net spending on transfer operations concluded over the last 10 seasons, the 2020-21 Ligue 1 champions rank first with a positive transfer balance of €349 million over the last decade. They’re one of the few teams nine figures in the green while a good chunk of all the teams we are familiar with as being giants in Europe sit in the red with deficits.
It’s a masterpiece of savvy transfers and behind the scenes, there’s only one man capable of pulling off this sporting miracle: Luis Campos. We have a lot of free-agent players on the market available this summer — from Kylian Mbappé to Paulo Dybala — but because of his successful resume, the now-available Campos could be one of the most sought-after names for top clubs around Europe.
His name is not the most-talked about among the media, but he’s definitely appreciated and valued in the world of football. If you ask any agent about the 57-year-old Portuguese transfer chief and the answer is always roughly the same: “He’s a genius.” Nothing else to say. Just a few weeks ago, former FC Bayern president and legend Karl-Heinze Rummenigge called him “the best in the world at his work” because Lille’s results speak for themselves. “What he’s doing everywhere he goes is simply incredible,” Rummenigge added.
After working at Real Madrid with José Mourinho as a scout, Campos in 2013 moved on to Ligue 1 to become the…
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