Tony Jimenez is a London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

-based property developer and former Vice President (Player Recruitment) for Newcastle United. He is a millionaire because of a series of property developments, which have included hotels and golf courses in Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

, England

England

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, and Dubai

Dubai

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

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Jimenez is friend of former Tottenham

Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....

 boss Juande Ramos and Mike Ashley

Mike Ashley (businessman)

Michael James Wallace "Mike" Ashley is an English millionaire retail entrepreneur in the sporting goods market...

's friend Paul Kemsley

Paul Kemsley

Paul Zeital Kemsley , is an English businessman. He is best known as a property developer, and to sports fans as a former Vice-Chairman of Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur, and as Chairman of the revived New York Cosmos.-Biography:He was educated at Atholl School in Rayners Lane,...

 and has extensive contacts in the game through property deals. He is not an agent but is well respected for his football knowledge.
Jimenez has a reputation as a Mr Fixit, having played a significant role in Tottenham’s capture of Juande Ramos.

Casa Sports Holdings Ltd

Jimenez was preveiously director of Casa Sports Holdings Ltd, a sports management and promotion agency whose clients included Celestine Babayaro

Celestine Babayaro

Celestine Hycieth Babayaro is a former Nigerian footballer.-Club career:Babayaro began his playing career at Nigerian side Plateau United, before moving to Belgium club Anderlecht in 1994, and eventually would make a name for himself, quickly gaining first-choice status although still a...

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Newcastle United

Jimenez was appointed Vice President (Player Recruitment) 29 January 2008 together with Dennis Wise

Dennis Wise

Dennis Frank Wise is an English former football manager and player, and former Executive Director at Newcastle United....

 as Executive Director (Football) and Jeff Vetere

Jeff Vetere

Jeff Vetere is a former football apprentice, youth coach, Scout and Technical Co-ordinator, he is currently Technical director at Charlton Athletic F.C.. Vetere is credited with an encyclopaedic knowledge of footballers and is fluent in Spanish, French and Italian.- Early career :Vetere's playing...

 as Technical Co-ordinator to complete a continental-style management structure working in support of Kevin Keegan

Kevin Keegan

Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE is a former international footballer and former manager of the England national football team and several English clubs, most notably Newcastle United....

. Wise and Vetere was responsible for making the initial assessment before calling in Jimenez to do the deal.

On 9 October 2008, it was announced on the official club website that Jimenez was to end his tenure at Newcastle to pursue other interests.

CAFC Holdings Limited

On 13 October 2008 it was reported that Jimenez had brokered the £50m takeover of Charlton Athletic

Charlton Athletic F.C.

Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, in the London Borough of Greenwich. They compete in Football League One, the third tier of English football. The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area,...

 by a Dubai-based investor.

On 31 December 2010 the takeover of Charlton Athletic

Charlton Athletic F.C.

Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, in the London Borough of Greenwich. They compete in Football League One, the third tier of English football. The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area,...

was completed under the ownership of CAFC Holdings Limited, Tony Jimenez and Michael Slater.