Fernando Felicevich, the South American super-agent holding Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United to ransom over Alexis Sanchez transfer
Sanchez's representative, the "King of South American football", is set to demand £5million in any move for his client
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ALEXIS SANCHEZ'S on-running transfer saga has been full of twists and turns ever since the summer.
Since Arsenal rejected Manchester City's opening bid of £60million in August, the future of the Chilean star has been very much up in the air.
First of all it looked as though Sanchez would stick around the Emirates until the summer before leaving on a free.
Then it seemed Sanchez was set to leave in a cut-price £25m move - again to Man City.
But now, Manchester United have swooped in from absolutely nowhere in a desperate 11th-hour bid to hijack the move.
Sanchez is not the man pulling the strings of this whole intriguing, infuriating saga though.
Instead, it's his agent who appears to be the man in charge... and you've probably never heard of him either.
Fernando Felicevich is the man representing Sanchez through this whole process - dubbed as the "King of South American football".
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Amazingly, the super-agent, South America's answer to Jorge Mendes or Mino Raiola has 39 clients on his books, including Sanchez, Gary Medel and Arturo Vidal.
But most astounding is the fact Felicevich never had any contact with professional football until the age of 33.
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Felicevich is a former rugby player, who moved to Chile in 2002 to work for McCann Erickson - a global advertising agency - after studying advertising in Paris.
While in South America he met Pablo Lenci - an old friend from his native Argentina - a then-fading defender in the twilight years of his career.
It was Lenci who saw Felicevich's potential to be a football agent... and the rest, as they say, is history.
Now the Argentine super-agent has one overriding aspiration: To become the most important football representative on the planet.
His plan certainly appears to be working too, having already opened up offices in Argentina and Peru, with Brazil now on the horizon too.
Last year alone, Felicevich raked in £18m - ranked sixth by Forbes in their list of most-powerful agents in the world.
Thanks to his reputation for a being a bubbly sociable person, Felicevich quickly became close to a handful of players in South America, including Patricio Ormazabal and Arturo Norambuena.
While the pair are hardly household names in Europe, it was in fact the latter who advised a 15-year-old Alexis Sanchez to speak with Felicevich, when they were on the books of Cobreloa in Chile.
The now-super-agent travelled to Tocopilla to speak personally with Sanchez's mother - investing great interest in the teenager in more than just a footballing sense.
While offering to deal with the money side of things, Felicevich helped Sanchez in his personal life in Chile - before getting him his crack at the big time, joining Serie A side Udinese in 2006.
As well as briefly bringing him back to South America to play for Colo-Colo and River Plate on loan, Felicevich was the man behind the player's Barcelona and Arsenal moves.
Since developing a reputation as a genuine footballing agent, Felicevich then got to know - and represent - the likes of Pablo Aimar, Medel, Vidal and Mauricio Isla.
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In another moving gesture, Felicevich acts as a counsellor of sorts in South America to his clients - not charging them a penny for his services.
Instead, the agent only take a cut of the money involved during his players' transfers.
Now, with Man City set to land Sanchez, Felicevich has followed rivals United on Twitter as something of a bidding war emerges.
While City are still the No1 candidates to land Sanchez's signature, it won't be cheap.
Felicevich will not only ensure his client is compensated heavily for his services, he will look to negotiate a high transfer fee AND take around £5m for himself in the deal.
The only question now is: Where and when will Sanchez move?