12 must-read football books like The Deal: Inside the World of a Super-Agent by Jon Smith

Cover of The Deal: Inside the World of a Super-Agent by Jon Smith

The Deal: Inside the World of a Super-Agent

By: Jon Smith

3.41

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

'Excellent . . . an in-depth excavation of the murky and mysterious world of football business. Smi…

If you liked the football plot in The Deal: Inside the World of a Super-Agent by Jon Smith , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Fear and Loathing in La Liga

By: Sid Lowe

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in La Liga is the definitive history of the greatest rivalry in world sport: FC B… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of Always Managing: My Autobiography by Harry Redknapp

2. Always Managing: My Autobiography

By: Harry Redknapp

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

The autobiography of one of the greatest living English soccer managers of his generation From kick… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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3. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches

By: Carlo Ancelotti

0.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Ancelotti is Europe's greatest manager -- Paul Hayward Telegraph He's a great coach and an amazing … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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5. Moneyball

By: Michael Lewis

4.26

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

6. Pep Confidential: The Inside Story of Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich

By: None

3.29

Format: None pages,

Marti Perarnau was given total access to Bayern Munich during season 2013-14. This book represents … read more

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7. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • nonfiction
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

8. Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game

By: David Sumpter

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

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9. Fever Pitch

By: Nick Hornby

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more

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10. My Life in Red and White

By: Arsène Wenger

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For the very first time, world-renowned and revolutionary football manager Arsène Wenger tells his … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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11. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

By: Joshua Robinson

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
"The rise of the English Premier League is a story about the sports world's wildest gold rush. In the span of twenty-five years, the league's twenty clubs have increased their combined value by 10,000…"

-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

"I'm not saying that we're Disney, but if you think about it, it's not that dissimilar, Berrada said. We have characters - which are players - that our fans relate to; we put on a show every three or …"

-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

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12. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

By: Adam Kay

4.12

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

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13. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

By: Ian Dunt

4.45

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

By: Richard Shepherd

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

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16. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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18. How (Not) To Be Strong

By: Alex Scott

4.43

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the football cages of East London to broadcasting to millions, the engine powering Alex Scott'… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

19. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Against Borders: The Case for Abolition by Gracie Mae Bradley

20. Against Borders: The Case for Abolition

By: Gracie Mae Bradley

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Why we need to get rid of borders Borders harm all of us: they must be abolished. Borders div… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up by Alexandra Potter

21. Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

By: Alexandra Potter

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A funny and heartfelt novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here and why life isn't … read more

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"I'm not saying this to be trite or to make you feel better, but believe me when I say this: the people who matter will see you, no matter what."

-Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

"I don't want to spend whatever time I have left looking backwards. I want to look forwards. To new things. New places. New adventures. Otherwise I'm just living a life where a part of me is missing."

-Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

"Because sometimes happiness isn't a choice. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't find joy. Which is why I've decided to stop beating myself up by desperately seeking happiness and give my…"

-Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

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22. Metronome

By: Tom Watson

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, striking debut by an award-winning author for fans of Emma Stonex, Francine Toon and Mega… read more

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23. Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football

By: Tobias Jones

4.01

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

Italy's ultras are the most organised and violent fans in European football. Many groups have evolv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes

24. Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

By: Simon Barnes

3.92

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost … read more

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  • nonfiction
"We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really …"

-Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

Cover of Red on Red: Liverpool, Manchester United and the fiercest rivalry in world football by Phil McNulty

25. Red on Red: Liverpool, Manchester United and the fiercest rivalry in world football

By: Phil McNulty

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of the most contested fixture in world football ‘A must read.’ Henry Winter 'Super… read more

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  • football
Cover of Playmaker: My Life and the Love of Football by Glenn Hoddle

26. Playmaker: My Life and the Love of Football

By: Glenn Hoddle

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

1 read more

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  • football
Cover of Done Deal: An Insider's Guide to Football Contracts, Multi-Million Pound Transfers and Premier League Big Business by Daniel Geey

27. Done Deal: An Insider's Guide to Football Contracts, Multi-Million Pound Transfers and Premier League Big Business

By: Daniel Geey

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Insightful, enlightening and thought-provoking, leading Premier League lawyer Daniel Geey lifts the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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28. Parenting Hell

By: Rob Beckett

4.25

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE MADNESS, ABSURDITY, AND UTTER CHAOS OF BEING A PARENT FROM THE… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Deal: Inside the World of a Super-Agent by Jon Smith

29. The Deal: Inside the World of a Super-Agent

By: Jon Smith

3.41

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

'Excellent . . . an in-depth excavation of the murky and mysterious world of football business. Smi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of The Secret Agent: Inside the World of the Football Agent by Anonymous Anonmyous

30. The Secret Agent: Inside the World of the Football Agent

By: Anonymous Anonmyous

3.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

'The secret is to know when to stick and when to twist, when to bet and when to burn, when to bluff… read more

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  • football

21 Best nonfiction books like The Deal: Inside the World of a Super-Agent by Jon Smith

Transform Your Habits

Fear and Loathing in La Liga

Sid Lowe

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Always Managing: My Autobiography

Harry Redknapp

3.92

Transform Your Habits

An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches

Carlo Ancelotti

0.00

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Transform Your Habits

HappyHead (HappyHead, #1)

Josh Silver

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Seventh Son

Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Transform Your Habits

In Ascension

Martin MacInnes

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Woman in the Garden (Eustacia Rose #1)

Jill Johnson

3.62

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