We are proud to welcome Libera Sports Agency as our new customer. Libera Sports will utilize Comparisonator during their transfer operations.
Libera Sports Agency’s CEO & Founder Zouhair Essikal:
“In modern football representation, you need undeniable data. Comparisonator gives Libera Sports a distinct competitive edge when placing talent across Europe. Its cross-league analytics and AI indexing allow us to prove a player’s seamless fit, validate market valuations, and remove friction during negotiations. For an agency focused on precision career building, it’s an indispensable daily tool.“
Who is Libera Sports Agency?
Libera Sports is a Belgium-based football agency representing and advising professional players and coaches. Its services include talent recruitment, contract and transfer support, career development and personalised career management.
The agency was founded and is led by Zouhair Essikal, who previously worked for a major international agency. Its business appears to be particularly strong in Belgium and neighbouring European markets, while it also maintains connections in countries including Türkiye and Saudi Arabia.
Its client portfolio includes Lucas Stassin of AS Saint-Étienne, Mathis Suray of Eredivisie club Go Ahead Eagles, Ilias Sebaoui of Sint-Truiden and Chidozie Awaziem of Konyaspor. The agency also represents many other talented players competing across Europe for clubs including FC Basel, Hamburg, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, CS Marítimo and Standard Liège.
Overall, Libera Sports appears to be an established and internationally active boutique agency with a strong Belgian base and a balanced portfolio of senior internationals and developing talents.
Who is Zouhair Essikal?
Zouhair Essikal is a Belgian football agent and the founder and CEO of Libera Sports. He has worked in the football industry for more than 20 years and describes his background as beginning in professional football before moving into player representation and agency management. He also holds an MBA from Warwick Business School.
Before establishing Libera Sports, Essikal gained experience at a major international football agency. A 2018 report identified him as working for Base Soccer Agency at the time. He later founded Libera Sports, where he focuses on player representation, transfers, contract negotiations and long-term career management.
He has been involved in transfers involving players and clubs across Belgium and international markets. Publicly documented examples include Casper Nielsen’s move to Club Brugge, Jean-Luc Dompé’s transfer to Hamburg and Nayel Mehssatou’s move from Anderlecht to Kortrijk.
Who is Comparisonator platform?
Comparisonator is an AI-powered football intelligence platform that helps football agencies identify suitable players, evaluate their performance levels and present them to clubs with objective, data-driven evidence.
For agents, the platform supports both player recruitment and transfer operations. Agencies can compare players across more than 300 performance parameters, analyse their playing profiles, identify similar players and discover clubs where their characteristics and performance levels may be a strong fit.
Through its Virtual Transfer feature, an agency can virtually place a player into a target club or league and understand how the player would rank against the team’s current players in the same position and across the entire squad. This helps agents assess whether a potential move is realistic before approaching a club.
Comparisonator also enables agents to understand a club’s recruitment needs, transfer spending habits, preferred markets and historical fees for specific positions. This allows agencies to approach clubs with players who better match their sporting requirements and financial capacity.
AI-generated player comparisons, transfer analyses and professional reports can be produced automatically within seconds. These reports help agents explain a player’s strengths, playing style, suitability and potential impact clearly to sporting directors, recruitment teams and club owners.
Overall, Comparisonator helps football agencies move beyond traditional player presentations by combining their market knowledge and relationships with objective performance intelligence. It supports agencies in finding opportunities, strengthening transfer pitches and representing their players with credible data-driven evidence.
