
WITH AN EXCLUSIVE Q&A BETWEEN JIM AND KAVEH FOR THE AUDIOBOOKThe best football book of the year. A mustread for anyone who loves football Harry RedknappFootball used to be a sport. Then it became a business. Now its a whole industry.For three months every year football clubs buy and sell human beings. People who are so good at their job that others are willing to pay millions and millions of pounds to work with them, and for good reason the right deal can help you win footballs top prizes while the wrong deal can cost you your job and bankrupt your club. Its a fastpaced, at times murky and cutthroat world worth billions and Jim White and Kaveh Solhekol have been at the heart of it for decades.In Deadline Day, Jim and Kaveh, two leading transfer market experts, take us behind the scenes of this uniquely tense and secretive world where the winner takes it all. They uncover what really happens in this game within the game where everything is for sale at the right price. And thats a price thats being paid by some of the richest people and countries on the planet, including billionaire US investors and Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia who have money to burn.Jim reveals what led him into journalism, and specifically what it takes to break the biggest stories and make it in the footballing world. Featuring a colourful cast of iconic players, managers, agents and owners such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Harry Kane and Sir Alex Ferguson to name a few Jim recounts some of the most...
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WITH AN EXCLUSIVE Q&A BETWEEN JIM AND KAVEH FOR THE AUDIOBOOKThe best football book of the year. A mustread for anyone who loves football Harry RedknappFootball used to be a sport. Then it became a business. Now its a whole industry.For three months every year football clubs buy and sell human beings. People who are so good at their job that others are willing to pay millions and millions of pounds to work with them, and for good reason the right deal can help you win footballs top prizes while the wrong deal can cost you your job and bankrupt your club. Its a fastpaced, at times murky and cutthroat world worth billions and Jim White and Kaveh Solhekol have been at the heart of it for decades.In Deadline Day, Jim and Kaveh, two leading transfer market experts, take us behind the scenes of this uniquely tense and secretive world where the winner takes it all. They uncover what really happens in this game within the game where everything is for sale at the right price. And thats a price thats being paid by some of the richest people and countries on the planet, including billionaire US investors and Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia who have money to burn.Jim reveals what led him into journalism, and specifically what it takes to break the biggest stories and make it in the footballing world. Featuring a colourful cast of iconic players, managers, agents and owners such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Harry Kane and Sir Alex Ferguson to name a few Jim recounts some of the most...
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