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Talks repeatedly broke down, as he went toe-to-toe with Masayoshi Son, CEO of Sprint’s majority owner, SoftBank, and a famously tough negotiator.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis is known to be a tough negotiator and is understood to want more than the £105m Arsenal paid to sign midfielder Declan Rice from West Ham in 2023.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

"He is a very difficult negotiator, not just in terms of being tough, but in terms of being very suspicious," Sacks added.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

After you’ve added the important details, Grunewald said candidates need to ask the LLM to do a mock salary negotiation, and specifically ask it to be critical and a tough negotiator.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

And while I wait, I'm thinking maybe I should become a family counselor, or maybe a hostage negotiator.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements