<ul class="summary-list"><li>Brazilian <keyword id="3071" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Soccer">soccer</keyword> icon <keyword id="96776" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Pele">Pele</keyword> has recently reasserted his belief that he is soccer's greatest ever goalscorer with 1,283 goals.</li><li>However, upon inspection, 526 of his goals were scored in unsanctioned games against opponents such as Bulgaria's B team and Ghanaian outfit Accra Hearts of Oak.</li><li><a href="http://www.rsssf.com">According to data from the RSSSF,</a> Pele isn't even the greatest ever goalscorer from Brazil.</li><li>That crown instead goes to Romario, who managed 772 for club and country, 15 more than Pele.</li><li>Pele is undeniably one of the best to have ever played the game, but what he isn't, is soccer's highest ever scorer.</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/cristiano-ronaldo-passes-pele-2nd-highest-ever-scorer-nears-record-2021-1">After Cristiano Ronaldo scored the 758th goal of his career on Sunday</a> to supposedly pass Pele in the sport's all-time scoring charts, the Brazil icon quickly updated his Instagram bio to insist otherwise.</p><p>"Leading Goal Scorer of All Time (1,283)," <a href="https://www.insider.com/pele-refusing-to-accept-ronaldo-messi-have-scored-more-2021-1">it read,</a> referencing the number of goals he is cited as scoring <a href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2013/10/video-pel%C3%A9-honoured-with-two-guinness-world-records-achievements-in-london-52558/?fb_comment_id=630131057039513_6300930">by the Guinness Book of World Records.</a></p><p>That number, however, doesn't give the true picture of his goal tally, and in fact, vastly inflates it.</p><p>Pele's refusal to accept that Ronaldo has surpassed him came just days after his former club, Santos, denied that <keyword id="704" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Lionel-Messi">Lionel Messi</keyword> had beaten the 80-year-old's record for the most ever goals scored for a single club. </p><p>Pele officially scored 643 competitive goals for Santos between 1956 and 1974, one fewer than Messi has now managed for FC Barcelona, however Santos quickly released a statement after Messi's record-breaking goal to insist <a href="https://www.insider.com/pele-refusing-to-accept-ronaldo-messi-have-scored-more-2021-1">Pele actually managed 1,091 goals during his time at the Urbano Caldeira Stadium</a> - 448 more than the record books claim.</p><p>So is Pele really soccer's most prolific ever scorer as he and his former club claim? The answer is no, and here is why.</p><h2>526 of his goals were scored in unsanctioned games</h2><p>When taking into account Ronaldo and Messi's current career goal totals, only goals scored in officially sanctioned matches count, friendlies included.</p><p>Pele, however, has a different idea of what counts as a goal to add to his tally.</p><p>Pele scored 757 official goals in his career. 643 for Santos, 77 for Brazil, and 37 during his stint with the New York Cosmos at the end of his career.</p><p>He also scored another 526 in unofficial friendlies and tour games, goals that if scored today, would not be counted as official.</p><div type="image" title="Pele" height="1499" width="3000" msid="80138104" hostid="261"></div><p>The reason those unofficial goals exist is pretty simple.</p><p>After winning the World Cup with Brazil in 1958, Pele became an international megastar, and his club Santos wanted to capitalize on his and his teammates' newfound fame and global appeal.</p><p>The result was hundreds and hundreds of non-sanctioned matches against teams all over the world, with Pele scoring hundreds of goals in these games.</p><p>"We were in demand," he said in his 2006 autobiography. "The suits were very keen to cash in. There was no time to relax; there was barely enough time to travel from stadium to stadium."</p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d1V_0Nf4MOyY0F4pJr5IPCMzPoy43uhwy0mLDR-Ik7E/edit#gid=307877772">Looking through a list of Pele's goals compiled during research for a book about him called "O Supercampeão,"</a> you'll see goals for Santos against the Hong Kong and Indonesian national teams, and a variety of other slightly off the wall opponents.</p><p>In his own total, the 80-year-old has included a six goal haul versus the Syndicate of Athletes of Rio de Janeiro, a hat-trick versus Bulgaria's B team, and a brace against Ghanaian outfit Accra Hearts of Oak. He's even included goals he scored while playing for the Brazilian military.</p><p>Santos acknowledged in its statement that many of Pele's goals were scored against lesser opposition, but insisted that doesn't matter, saying: "A goal against Transvaal (from Suriname) has the same value as Real Madrid in the middle of the Santiago Bernabeu."</p><p>We're sorry to say, but it doesn't (especially considering that game was an exhibition to celebrate Pele's 1000th match).</p><p><a href="http://www.rsssf.com">Perhaps surprisingly, according to data from The Rec Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF),</a> Pele isn't even the greatest ever goalscorer from Brazil. That crown instead goes to PSV, Barcelona, and Vasco da Gama legend Romario, who managed 772 for club and country.</p><p>Curious for Romario's own thoughts on Pele? <a href="https://www.goal.com/en/news/60/south-america/2013/04/27/3936007/romario-pele-is-an-imbecile">According to Goal,</a> in 2013, he called his compatriot "an imbecile."</p><p>Pele is undeniably one of the finest football players in the history of the sport, winning three World Cups, dominating teams all over the planet, and scoring many hundreds of goals.</p><p>What he isn't however, is the top scorer in football history, no matter what he, or the Guinness Book of World Records, says.</p><p>And for what it's worth, the top goalscorer in world football history is Czech striker Josef Bican, who bagged 805.</p><p><strong>Read more:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/pele-refusing-to-accept-ronaldo-messi-have-scored-more-2021-1">All-time soccer icon Pele is refusing to accept that Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have scored more goals than he did</a></p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/robert-lewandowski-set-to-break-gerd-muller-bundesliga-scoring-record-2021-1">Robert Lewandowski is on course to break one of European football's most-storied scoring records</a></p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/cristiano-ronaldo-passes-pele-2nd-highest-ever-scorer-nears-record-2021-1">Cristiano Ronaldo is now less than 50 goals away from becoming the most prolific scorer in soccer history, after overtaking Brazil legend Pele</a></p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/english-premier-league-transfer-window-club-by-club-guide-2021-1">The January transfer window is opening for the English Premier League - here's who every club in the league should sign</a></p>

Pele won't stop claiming he is football's greatest ever goalscorer. Here's why he is wrong.

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d95b4d078c0cd1a422e66f4-2000/salzburg%20.png" border="0" alt="Jesse Marsch/RB Salzburg" data-mce-source="Getty"><p class="source"><span>Getty</span></p><p class="caption">Jesse Marsch celebrated a little too early in RB Salzburg's 4-3 defeat to Liverpool.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Jesse Marsch, who manages Austrian side RB Salzburg, sprinted down the sideline to celebrate after his side pulled back a 3-0 deficit against Liverpool FC in the Champions League on Wednesday night.&#xa0;</li><li>However, the American coach's actions came back to haunt him just nine minutes later when Liverpool's Mohamed Salah scored what proved to be the winner.</li><li>"The emotion I had in that moment and the pride I had in the way the team started out the second half is what led to that celebration," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=190&amp;v=eW3IFgna9ys">Marsch told BeIN Sports after the game.</a></li><li>Liverpool scored one of the goals of the season on the night via Andy Robertson, which you can watch below.&#xa0;</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/soccer-news?r=US&amp;IR=T">Read more of our soccer stories here.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul><p>Jesse Marsch, manager of Austrian side RB Salzburg, sprinted down the sideline to celebrate with his players after they came back from 3-0 down against Liverpool FC to level the score in the 60th minute of their Champions League group stage match Wednesday night.&#xa0;</p><p>He was shown a yellow card for his actions.</p><p>However, the 45-year-old from Wisconsin, USA, was silenced just nine minutes later when Liverpool's Mohammed Salah scored the winner, sinking Salzburg to a 4-3 defeat.</p><p>Marsch, the first American to ever coach in the Champions League, had no regrets, though, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=190&amp;v=eW3IFgna9ys">telling BeIN Sports after the game:</a> "The emotion I had in that moment and the pride I had in the way the team started out the second half is what led to that celebration.</p><p>"I think in years past they didn't give yellows, or punish, trainers for that. But I'm ok with taking a yellow there."&#xa0;</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/watch-lewandowski-help-bayern-beat-tottenham-hotspur-2019-10?r=US&amp;IR=T">A magical 'rainbow flick,' 2 goals, and a world class display: Robert Lewandowski shines as Bayern humiliates Tottenham</a></em></p><p>On the night at Anfield, Liverpool rushed to a 3-0 lead after just 36 minutes, thanks to goals from Sadio Mané, Andrew Robertson, and Mohamed Salah.</p><p>Robertson's goal was particularly brilliant - the Scotland international started and finished a perfectly executed team move.</p><p>Though it looked like the home side had secured all three points, Marsch's Salzburg hit back in explosive fashion, scoring three goals of its own in just 21 minutes.</p><p>Hwang Hee-chan got the comeback rolling in the 39th minute, before Takumi Minamino added a second in the 56th.</p><p>Four minutes later, Salzburg was level when substitute Erling Braut Haaland tapped in from close range for his 18th goal of the season - a goal which Marsch celebrated all too enthusiastically.&#xa0;</p><p>Mohamed Salah spared Liverpool's blushes, however, in the 69th minute, prodding home Roberto Firmino's flick-on.&#xa0;</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-40-best-young-footballers-in-world-soccer-right-now-2019-10?r=US&amp;IR=T">These are the 40 best young soccer players on the planet right now</a></em></p><p>Liverpool's win takes it into second place in Group E, ahead of Salzburg on goal difference, and behind leaders SSC Napoli.</p><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Jesse Marsch is in uncharted waters for an American soccer coach, and his Champions League night against Liverpool will live long in the memory. Column from Anfield: <a href="https://t.co/HeOov5pI7q">https://t.co/HeOov5pI7q</a> <a href="https://t.co/1W2k2LfrnL">pic.twitter.com/1W2k2LfrnL</a></p>- Grant Wahl  (@GrantWahl) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1179562284143841280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2019</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Alexa, show me the perfect example of Liverpool's football under Jurgen Klopp...<br><br>Poetry from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson 🔥 <a href="https://t.co/nENhVH6sB2">pic.twitter.com/nENhVH6sB2</a></br></br></p>- Football on BT Sport  (@btsportfootball) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1179482980101824513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2019</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-are-heel-spurs-donald-trump-vietnam-deferments-jacqueline-sutera-2017-8">A podiatrist explains heel spurs, the medical condition Trump said earned him a medical deferment from Vietnam</a></h3>        <div>            <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/1OsT5Uwc-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script>        </div>    </div>

RB Salzburg's coach was penalized for celebrating with his team, then got beaten by Liverpool FC 9 minutes later

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57627be1dd0895384c8b459c-2400/zlatan ibrahimovic´.jpg" alt="Zlatan Ibrahimovic´" data-mce-source="Mikael Sjoberg/Ombrello / Getty Images" data-link="http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/538271566" /><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/538271566">Mikael Sjoberg/Ombrello / Getty Images</a></span></p><p class="caption">Zlatan Ibrahimovic, playing for Sweden.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Manchester United is still hopeful Swedish superstar Zlatan Ibrahimovic will join the team, but he could miss the first two games of the season because of Sweden's involvement in the Rio Olympics, <a href="http://www.skysports.com/transfer/news/12691/10314504/zlatan-ibrahimovic-could-miss-man-uniteds-first-two-premier-league-games" target="_blank">according to Sky Sports</a>.</p><p>The 2016 Games run from August 5 - 22, <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/premier-league-fixtures-here-are-the-ones-to-pay-attention-to-2016-6" target="_blank">which overlaps with United's first two matches</a> on the 13th and 20th respectively.</p><p>Ibrahimovic has been included in Sweden's 35-man Olympic squad, which will be cut down the 22 when it goes to Rio. Sweden will face Nigeria, Colombia and Japan in the group stages.</p><p>According to Swedish head coach Hakan Ericson, there "is still hope" that 34-year-old Ibrahimovic could make the final Olympics selection, which usually favours younger players to give them international experience.</p><p>"It could be a new phase in his career, and Zlatan has said that he is willing to wait until after the Euros [to decide]," he said. "I want to keep open the tiniest gap that might exist because it would be fantastic to bring Zlatan."</p><p>Sweden's fixtures have already disrupted Manchester United's plans for signing Ibrahimovic. United has reportedly <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/manchester-united-signing-of-zlatan-ibrahimovic-looks-set-to-go-2016-6" target="_blank">agreed personal terms with the striker</a>, but an arranged medical had to be postponed thanks to his involvement in the European Championships.</p><p>News also recently emerged that Bayern Munich manager Carlo Ancelotti <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/man-united-face-zlatan-ibrahimovic-8189976" target="_blank">wants to sign Ibrahimovic</a><span> to replace the club's own forward Robert Lewandowski, who may be moving to Real Madrid.</span></p><p>But United's new manager Jose Mourinho seems set on the Swede. He has been on a spending spree since becoming manager of United last month, who would compliment his vision of a new team along with the confirmed signing of <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/manchester-united-manager-jose-mourinho-set-to-sign-first-player-since-joining-club-2016-6" target="_blank">Villarreal defender</a> <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/manchester-united-manager-jose-mourinho-set-to-sign-first-player-since-joining-club-2016-6" target="_blank">Eric Bailly for £30 million</a>, and the likely signing of Italian star <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/manchester-uniteds-jose-mourinho-to-spend-insane-money-on-italys-marco-verratti-2016-6" target="_blank">Marco Verratti for a record</a> <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/manchester-uniteds-jose-mourinho-to-spend-insane-money-on-italys-marco-verratti-2016-6" target="_blank">€100 million (£79.5 million)</a>.</p><p>Despite the Olympics news, Ibrahimovic may be happy to get back to club football as soon as possible. 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The Olympics could screw up Manchester United's attempts to sign Zlatan Ibrahimovic

<p><strong><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59aeae5c79bbfd21008b7e97-2400/rtx3cwrk.png" alt="Rob Porter" data-mce-source="Jonathan Ernst/Reuters; Allan Smith/Business Insider" data-mce-caption="Rob Porter, all the way in the back of this photo." /><p class="source"><span>Jonathan Ernst/Reuters; Allan Smith/Business Insider</span></p><p class="caption">Rob Porter, all the way in the back of this photo.</p></div><p></p></div></div></strong></p><ul><li><strong>A relatively unknown White House aide has seen the importance of his job grow under new chief of staff John Kelly.</strong></li><li><strong>Rob Porter, the White House staff secretary </strong><strong>is tasked with vetting all the information that makes it to President Donald Trump's desk.</strong></li><li><strong>His role is important for Trump, who has been known to share dubious and false information.</strong></li></ul><p>The photo went viral six weeks ago.</p><p>Many of the most bombastic players of the Trump campaign and administration - past and present - are there. There's Corey Lewandowski, Trump's first campaign manager. There's Omarosa Manigault, the "Apprentice" contestant turned communications director for the office of public liaison.</p><p>There's Anthony Scaramucci, he of the week-long stint as White House communications director, wearing his trademark sunglasses. There's Sebastian Gorka, the counterterrorism adviser and cable-television blusterer, who was ousted two weeks ago.</p><p>Then there's Rob Porter. He's in the background, observing and taking it all in. He's the most important person in the photo.</p><p>One former top Senate aide compared the photo to something out of the Quentin Tarantino movie "Reservoir Dogs." The aide said the photo perfectly illustrates "just sort of how I view" Porter in the White House.</p><p>"He's there but he's not quite being of the circus aspect of it," the aide said. "Which is what you want."</p><p>In all likelihood, Rob Porter isn't a name that comes to mind when you think of President Donald Trump's White House.</p><p>Based on what he's tasked with, it should be.</p><p>Porter is the White House staff secretary and assistant to the president for policy coordination. He has been at the helm since the Trump administration's first day. He's tasked with vetting and filtering what reaches Trump's desk. And under new chief of staff John Kelly, his role has been further reinforced.</p><p>Last month, <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/24/john-kelly-trump-control-241967" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Politico</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/us/politics/trump-white-house-kelly-memos.html?_r=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The New York Times</a> reported on a pair of memos Porter and Kelly signed that codified the procedures for presenting Trump with any sort of information. As it goes now, Porter must vet and clear all news articles, legal documents, internal and external policy memos, and agency reports before they make it to Kelly's desk. Once Kelly then signs off, the information lands on Trump's desk. In the latter of the two memos, Porter and Kelly devised a system to ensure that all sides of a policy issue for those which have a legal aspect are run past them prior to making it to the president.</p><p>So Porter, a little-known White House aide who has avoided getting caught up in any of the West Wing drama that has plagued the administration for the better part of seven months, serves to review everything before it makes it to the president's desk.</p><p>Given how the president has both shared dubious information at times when aides have presented him with reports from less-than-credible sources, Porter's role has an outsized importance.</p><p>Porter, a Rhodes scholar who attended Harvard with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, was close with former chief of staff Reince Priebus from shared time at the Republican National Committee. He served in the offices of Republican Sens. Mike Lee, Rob Portman, and Orrin Hatch. Porter finds himself as someone who can connect to the various factions and ideologies competing in the West Wing. He's managed to keep a low profile, stay above the fray, and avoid stepping into many of the squabbles in the administration's early months.</p><p>The White House did not return a request for comment. But as a roughly half-dozen former Senate colleagues told Business Insider, many on Capitol Hill are thrilled that Porter is working within the administration. Talk to people who worked with him in the past, and they'll repeatedly mention his intelligence, experience, and team-first attitude.</p><p>"It's not surprising to anybody who knows Rob that he's avoided the squabbles and turf battles that have consumed so many others in this White House," Brian McGuire, a former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, told Business Insider. "He's a master of discretion whose instincts and experience suit him perfectly for the task of ensuring that personality clashes and process fouls never interfere with the president's right to get only the best information and advice from his team."</p><h2>An 'important ally'</h2><p>McGuire said Porter is someone who is both "an honest broker who respects diverse viewpoints" and "also knows when to close the window and drive a decision."</p><p>Saying that Trump is "lucky to have someone of his caliber in that role," McGuire pointed to Porter's judgment as crucial for the role of vetting what makes it to Trump's desk. That, he said, will help "not only in terms of identifying helpful and unhelpful information, but also presenting it to the president in a way that will serve the president's interests above all else."</p><p>"I think you want somebody in that job who has the president's interests at heart," McGuire said. "And again, the fact that Rob has not found himself at the center of any of these various turf battles has shown that he is not in this for himself so much as he's in it for the president."</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59a87f8679bbfda03f8b5638-950/rts1bjhv.jpg" alt="Rob Porter and Donald Trump" data-mce-source="Jonathan Ernst/Reuters" data-mce-caption="Rob Porter and Donald Trump." /><p class="source"><span>Jonathan Ernst/Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">Porter and Donald Trump.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>One former top Senate aide was not surprised that Kelly, who the aide said brings a "high level of discipline and detachment but also commitment to the task at hand" in the White House, would identify Porter as an "important ally" in getting the ship sailing in the right direction.</p><p>Josh Holmes, also a former chief of staff to McConnell, said Porter's presence in the White House gives him "comfort," knowing his "caliber and credentials."</p><p>"I think what makes him particularly valuable is he'll concern himself with the substance of the job and the execution of the task that he's given," he said. "There's an awful lot of folks who just want to show up in the background of a camera shot, and that's just not Rob. He's not in it for the glory or the perceived power, he's focused on trying to get the job done right."</p><p>Porter's staying out of the spotlight while top West Wing officials were caught up in rampant infighting that often spilled out publicly is a "testament to his character," Holmes said.</p><p>"Whatever you want to say about the Trump administration, for the first seven months, the West Wing was a soap opera," he said. "But one character you never heard from was Rob. And that's because he was focused on doing his job."</p><p>"He didn't get caught up in who's up and who's down," Holmes said. "He didn't get caught up in whose fault things were when something went wrong or who takes the credit when something went right. He just kept the trains moving. And in all honesty, if you could fill an entire West Wing or Senate office or whatever with folks like that, you'd be in a very, very good place for execution."</p><p><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/24/john-kelly-trump-control-241967" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">As Politico reported</a>, Porter "has assumed a pivotal behind-the-scenes role" in the White House. He worked even before Kelly's arrival to help serve as a mediator between competing factions in the building. Politico reported that he has mediated trade disputes between free-trade-favoring Gary Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, and the more protectionist Peter Navarro, the head of the National Trade Council.</p><h2>'Donald Trump is his own man'</h2><p>Still, there are obvious limits to Porter's role as a sort of vetter-in-chief. The president still accesses his Twitter daily, where a select group of 45 accounts have the ability to present him with any piece of unvetted information they decide to promote onto his feed.</p><p>In addition, the president has even lately found himself in hot water for his retweets - like when he promoted a meme of an image of himself "eclipsing" an image of President Barack Obama. <a href="https://twitter.com/Weinsteinlaw/status/900743011205820420" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The person whose account he promoted the meme</a> from had just days earlier posted anti-Semitic comments.</p><p>Trump <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-retweets-antifa-obama-charlottesville-arpaio-2017-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">later promoted comments</a> from fringe far-right author Dinesh D'Souza. He also highlighted a comment from conservative pundit Katie Pavlich that had incorrectly said Obama pardoned Chelsea Manning, the US Army soldier who had provided documents to WikiLeaks, to help defend his controversial pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. Obama had commuted her sentence.</p><p>And as both <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/during-a-summer-of-crisis-trump-chafes-against-criticism-and-new-controls/2017/08/31/8fb32d72-8d97-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Washington Post</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/us/politics/john-kelly-trump.html?_r=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The New York Times</a> reported last week, Trump has bristled at Kelly's tightening grip on the White House. The Times wrote that Trump has "bridled at what he perceives as being told what to do."</p><p>"It is inevitable that a guy who will not be contained and does not want to be handled or managed was going to rebel against the latest manager who wanted to control him," Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant, told The Times. "Ultimately Donald Trump is his own man, and he's going to resist all the control and regimented systems Kelly is trying to impose."</p><p>Stone told Business Insider he did not know Porter, but is interested in finding out more about him.</p><p>The president still relies on Fox News as his primary source of information, Trump aides told The Times. With Kelly and Porter now approving all the news printouts that make it to the president's desk, some of Trump's favorite outlets are now - at least for the most part - nowhere to be seen. That led Trump to ask a friend where the stories from Breitbart and The Daily Caller were in his news package, The Times reported.</p><p>But even with the president reportedly peeved at some of the new controls, there remains little doubt that once Kelly's tenure as chief of staff began, order has - for the most part - begun to fall into place. And Porter's service has helped usher in that stability.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59aeac7e79bbfd22008b7f13-2400/gettyimages-840906252.jpg" alt="Gary Cohn, Rob Porter, and Ivanka Trump" data-mce-source="Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="Gary Cohn, Porter, and Ivanka Trump" /><p class="source"><span>Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">Gary Cohn, Porter, and Ivanka Trump</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Mark Isakowitz, Portman's chief of staff who worked closely with Porter when both were at the senator's office, said Porter's message from when he first decided to work for Trump has been "'I want to serve the president, I want to serve the country, I know what the job requires.'"</p><p>"What sort of struck me is this wasn't someone who was driving a factional agenda or was there to represent some subgroup of the party," Isakowitz told Business Insider. "He was there to serve the president of the United States and do an excellent professional job. And he had the discipline to not take his eye off that ball. That's how he conducts himself, that's how people see him. He's trusted. ... You need someone of a very high level of competence in that job."</p><p>And Porter is someone who "really gave everything to work," as a current top staffer for a Republican senator told Business Insider.</p><p>"I'd leave the office at 8:30 or 9 at night and he'd still be in there working," the aide said. "He would always joke around with people who would leave at 7 or 7:30 p.m., which was already late for a lot of people, 'getting out early tonight ah?' You know, he was good natured about it. It was never like, stay in the office just to stay in the office."</p><p>The staffer described Porter's "dedication and work ethic" as "unmatched by anyone I've ever met."</p><p>With Porter now finding himself in a central White House position executing what in the Trump era is a more-than-usual critical job, the staffer said Porter deserves credit for helping the West Wing start to mellow out.</p><p>"It's good for people to see what he's doing," the staffer said. "He's kept a low profile, which I think is smart. 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