Alex Hayes

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Alex Hayes is a former sports journalist who specialised in football reporting in the UK and France. He previously worked for ''The Independent'', TPS/Canal Plus and Sky Sports. He was then a respected football agent, whose clients included Robert Pires and Jérémie Aliadière. He also represented Eric Cantona in the UK. In October 2014, he became executive vice-president of Ligue 1's FC Lorient. He left the role in September 2017. In May 2018, he became the Sporting Director of Royale Union Saint-Gilloise, a Brussels-based football club then owned by Brighton chairman Tony Bloom. Hayes is widely credited for launching the club’s incredible success story by finding and totally remodelling the training ground as well as recruiting the then unknown manager Luka Elsner. In 2019, Hayes opted to move to another Belgian club, RE Virton, leading them to their best ever season in 2019-20 when they finished first at the end of the regular season. In 2021, Hayes decided to set up his new sports consultancy, which advises some of the world’s biggest clubs as well as one of the game’s most exciting young managerial talents, Will Still. Provided by Wikipedia