The high profile football agent Mino Raiola is in critical condition, international media report.

First reports had indicated that the 54-year-old had died.

But as the news spread, a doctor at the San Raffaele Hospital said that Raiola is not dead, but is in critical condition.

Raiola is the agent of players like Paul Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Gigio Donnarumma, Mario Balotelli, Romelu Lukaku and Erling Haaland.

Raiola had been hospitalised in Milan in January and underwent very delicate surgery but the nature of the illness had not been revealed.