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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Prologue; Getting Started; Player Recruitment Lesson One; Player Recruitment Lesson Two; Got to keep the Customer Satisfied; The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth; The Babysitter; Learning to Fly; Cutting the Apron Strings; The Vultures Circle; The Bung; Foreign Dealings; Smoke and Mirrors; Promises, Promises; Agent B; The Front; The Tools of the Trade; Vicarious Living; The Boot Boys; Player Agents; Cornered; The Media Game; Swimming with Sharks; Speculate to Accumulate; Investments; Social Media; Commercial Exploitation |
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Travel AgentForeign Adventures; Chairman K; Foreign Travails; Switches, Shadows and Scheisters; Expansion; Running to Stand Still; The Good Guys; Legal Eagles; Hubris; Epilogue |
| Summary |
The secret is to know when to stick and when to twist, when to bet and when to burn, when to bluff and when to hold. This whole business is one massive, never-ending card game and if you sit at the table long enough then maybe, just maybe, you're going to get so lucky that you'll beat the house or even break the bank. Unless, of course, the house breaks you first.' From mere coffee boy, to lowly scout, to multi-million pound wheeler dealer with the Premiership big guns and the cream of the Champions League, this book charts the Secret Agent's fast and furious progress through the dressing rooms, board rooms and bedrooms of England's top clubs. It doesn't just lift the lid on the true face of professional football, it tears it off and hurls it across the room. This is a no-holds-barred, jaw-dropping insight into the true power-brokers of the world game: the moneymen and dealmakers who grease the wheels or, more accurately, the palms that make the whole football .. |
| Notes |
Title detail screen (OverDrive, viewed April 7, 2015) |
| Subject |
Sports agents -- England -- Biography
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Soccer -- England -- Biography
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Soccer
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Sports agents
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England
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857908155 |
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0857908154 |
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