 As a sports journalist, he built up a network of contacts throughout the 1980s.He gave up his job as a journalist in 1998 and negotiated his second deal the following year.This marked the beginning of his career as an agent and he continued to develop close ties in the football world by organising friendly internationals in Israel, inviting players, including Graeme Souness and Kenny Dalglish, to holiday at his villa in Eilat, and even taking oranges to Melwood, Liverpool's training ground, as a gift for players and staff.