4) The Rogue Lawyers
Rodrigo Garcia Lucas, Alvaro Reig Gurrea and Francisco Salinas Mezquita, leading solicitors for law firm Laffer Abogados, turned up at La Liga’s administrative offices to finalise Ander Herrera’s move to Manchester United in the summer of 2013.
The problem was, nobody knew who hired them. United denied any knowledge, as did Herrera, and the transfer collapsed in acrimony. The player did, however, complete the switch to Old Trafford a year later.