Book Review: The Deal, Inside the World of a Super-Agent

We talk of footballers like livestock, discussing and projecting how and when they will move and if they will make a success of it. It happens every day. Players are linked to clubs and, if you’re lucky, your side land a superstar.
More often than not footballers fail to live up to their billing when signing for a new club. Managers come and go and signings can be immediately discarded if the new boss isn’t interested.
In Jon Smith’s excellent book The Deal, we see that interest (and disinterest) at first hand. This is no glimpse behind the drawn curtain, rather an in-depth excavation of... read more