The Secret Agent: Fully Revised and Updated Edition

by Secret Agent

'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 the moneymen and dealmakers who grease the wheels - or, more accurately, the palms - that make the whole football machine tick.

Scandalous, witty, fearless and occasionally heartless, The Secret Agent casts an astonishing new light on the ambition,greed and power in a cut-throat and self-obsessed world.

Genres: Football, Nonfiction

244 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2014

Reviews

[Damien Chapman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting and revealing not always in a good way...

Not the best written book but honest and revealing. Difficult to have a great deal of sympathy for the author given the revelations which certainly (if true) leave a sour taste about the game we all love. Worth a read though despite raising some personal thought points of the game perhaps I was happy to be oblivious to.

[Kurt Lewin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Offered very little insight and just made out all footballers to be exactly the same, only interested in money, cars and women. The book would just go on about how often his clients would sleep around and some of the hijinks they would get up to. When it did talk about transfer dealings I didn't feel it was in a way that was easy to understand. Some of the stories he recounted too didn't sound believable, he would be recounting stories from years ago word for word like they happened yesterday which made me doubt the credibility of the story. Did it actually happen or is it something he made up?

[Trevor · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is quite similar to the "Secret Footballer" books although this time it's an agent.

It details the agent's rise, from being nothing to a fully fledged agent.

It really shows how murky the water is in the world of an agent, and just how corrupt football is on the whole.

If you like the TSF books, I reckon you'll like this one.

[Bruno · Rating 3 out of 5]

I did like finding out about the football agent industry told truthfully. The reality is grim and corruption in abundance. Nevertheless interesting to understand more how an industry works.

Several typos.

[Getout Ofmybookcorner · Rating 1 out of 5]

The main positive of this book is seeing the author running in to much deserved troubles at the end.

If he is indeed a real football agent, which to be honest, I am pretty unsire he is - then surely he could have produced a more authentic-feeling book, and not something for which to ejaculate ego and self-justification in to every chapter.

The worst part is the half assed puns and 'well, obviously he is a footballer so he did this....' YAWN YAWN

Poorly written with very few revelations, other then how much of a tit he could make himself.

If you are truly interested in finding out the murky details of the football agent world, you would be far better served to search the internet. There are some interviews easy to find which will give you far more insight, and not line the pockets of this sham.

[Damian · Rating 2 out of 5]

As interesting as some of the stories are the book itself is very repetetive. Each chapter focuses on other aspect of Agent's life, but in each and every one of them the Agent comes to the same conclusion. There's too much focus on the negotiating, legal aspects and not enough on the supposedly real-life examples, which are the best part of the book. It also seems more like enhanced reality, some of it might be true but most of it is probably spiced to be more controversial.

[Adam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Poczatkowo ciekawa, potem powtarzalne teksty. Ogolem mozna zawrzec w jednym zdaniu: nikomu nie ufaj, zero lojalnosci i liczy sie kasa. A to wszystko na chyba 250 stronach. Czytadlo, nic wiecej

[Aleksander · Rating 2 out of 5]

Let me save you couple of quids and some time: agents/footballers/managers/clubs are greedy bastards. That's what the whole book's about. Your welcome.

[Arkadiusz Frankowski · Rating 2 out of 5]

Szybko się czyta, ale sama literatura bardzo płytka. Brakuje efektu "WOW"

[Thomas Ranson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not as interesting or well-written as "The Secret Footballer" books. Somewhat disappointing.

[pablo2020 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Far too repetitive and with numerous errors.

[Dave Wein · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'd like to know if its true or not but quite interesting