Mino Raiola is at war. The agent who represents some of the biggest players in world football – including Paul Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Erling Haaland – is after the biggest scalp of all. He wants to bring down Fifa and, he says, he will stop at nothing to do it.

It is why Raiola is in Switzerland, in Zurich, right on Fifa’s doorstep. He even stayed the night in one of Fifa’s favourite hotels and he is in its hometown to threaten legal action in the Swiss courts, to controversially demand that agents are recognised as “stakeholders” in football and to suggest that some of the most powerful clubs – through the European Clubs Association – are on board with his plans for an alternative transfer system which could fatally damage the sport’s governing body.

The battle-lines are clear. Raiola is president and founder of the Football Agents Forum (FAF) which, remarkably, has other ‘super-agents’ (not a term he likes), including Jonathan Barnett and Jorge Mendes, on board and is ostensibly taking on Fifa because of a proposed cap on transfer commissions – 10 per cent on player sales, three per cent on salaries - which will reduce earnings. Fifa argues its plans will protect players, raise standards and improve transparency. So surely that is a good thing?

The agents disagree and say the fight goes far deeper. Raiola’s target is Fifa president Gianni Infantino. “We are the lepers of football. And that’s why they take us on,” he says, in an interview with Telegraph Sport. “I am part of this industry and Mr Infantino, if he was not part of Fifa, would be a post office manager earning 3,500 Swiss francs a month and now he makes three million. Does he make too much money? In his opinion not. Do people like Gianni Infantino think they are God? He is not God and I am here to tell him he’s not God.”