Raiola also claimed age is not important when valuing a player and criticised Milan sporting director Massimiliano Mirabelli.
He said: "I
don't talk about him as a person but rather his methods. For example,
nobody has noticed that [Andrea] Conti has threatened not to even turn
up to Atalanta training in order to join Milan. Gigio never said
anything like that and has never had any financial demands.
"But
if you have a top player like him at your club, why do you go and offer
double or triple the salary to [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang or [Alvaro]
Morata? It makes no sense."
When
asked why Donnarumma should be on the same wages as players like
Aubameyang and Morata at just 18 years of age, Raiola responded:
"So
what? Madrid signed a 16-year-old Brazilian [Vinicius Jnr] for €45m and
do you know his salary? Age is irrelevant when it comes to quality."
The super agent, who also
represents Zlatan Ibrahimovic, says Donnarumma would be worth a lot of
money to any club and revealed contract talks between the two
parties did not go smoothly.
He told Marca:
"There were no presumptions or conditions for an agreement. We asked
for time and discretion in order to allow Gigio to be calm but Milan
informed the press of every move and the results are there for everyone
to see.
"I at least
hope the FIGC [Italian Football Federation] will defend him. We are
already organising the use of a security service. We have to think about
everything because nobody else cares about him. It is absurd.
"In principle, Gigio wanted
to stay at Milan because he has been there since he was 14. He actually
signed despite having had contact with Inter and his parents told him
not to sign because the club had sold his brother Antonio. "He was hurt by Mirabelli's phrase, when he told him: 'If you don't sign then you sit in the stands.' That sounds like blackmail."
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