FX.co ★ Forbes: top-10 richest and most authoritative sport managers

As the most authoritative sport manager of the world Forbes named Scott Boras (the right in the picture), working with baseball players. They say, the heads of all MLB clubs (Major League Baseball) are scared of this American lawyer, who owns Boras Corp.. At the moment Boras conducts the affairs of 60 athletes, nine of which have sport contracts to the tune of $100 million and higher. In 2016 the commission rate of the well-known Californian lawyer amounted to $132.29 million.

On the second place is Jorge Mendes, an agent of Christiano Ronaldo, James Rodrigues and ofther footballers. The agent was a professional football player. After the sport career ended, the Portuguese founded the agency Gestifute International, which services 91 football players at this date.

The commission rate of Mendes has been up to the sum of $72.72 million this year.

The brothers Sam Levinson and Seth Levinson (left in the picture), the owners of ACES agency, are on the third place. The commission rate of the sport agents in 2016 reached $55.38 million. The managers' clients are baseball players.

Casey Close (right in the picture) is one more sport agent, managing the affairs of baseball players, is on the fourth place. A successful manager used to play ball for New York Yankees, however the career of a sportsman was not so fortunate. In 2011 Casey Close had luck to become a partner of Jeff Schwarz (basketball) and Mark Steinberg (golf) in the Excel Sport Management company. They together advanced the agency rating – today it takes the second place in the list of the most high-profile sport agencies in the world. Close's commission rate has amounted to $55.11 million this year.

On the fifth place is Jeff Schwarz, a colleague of Casey Close (the second from the right on the bottom row). Today the Excel Sport Management agency, the founder of which is Schwarz, leads in the market of basketball. In 2016 the basketball players paid $52.11 million to Schwarz.

One more baseball agent – Greg Genske – is on the sixth position. The representative of the Legacy Agency has earned $47.6 million of the commission fee over year.

Pat Brisson, a sport manager working for the most well-known agency of Hollywood the Creative Artists Agency (САА), takes the seventh place. The company conducts the affairs with such popular actors as George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio. The agency looks beyond the cooperations with celebrities – САА manages the affairs of many sport stars. The money success to hockey players is provided by Brisson. He has earned the commission rate to the tune of $40.17 milliom over year.

An ex-player of Amercan football and a lawyer Thomas Condon is on the eighth position. Its agency career he began when he was a sportsman. Today Condon conducts the affairs of 48 American football players. In 2016 the lawyer earned $39.55 million of the commission fee.

Jonathan Barnett, a football agent, takes the ninth place. The manager's first client was a cricket player Brain Lara. Nowadays Barnett services 96 athletes. In 2016 his comission rate was $37.62 million.

An accentric football agent Mino Raiola (left in the picture) closes top-10 of the most authoritative sport managers. For the year the commision fee of this well-known Italian has achieved $35.63 million. The best part of the sum Raiola earned due to passing of Paul Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan to Manchester United.