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  • Deadline Day

  • The Inside Story of Football’s Transfer Market
  • By: Jim White, Kaveh Solhekol
  • Narrated by: Jim White
  • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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Deadline Day

By: Jim White, Kaveh Solhekol
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Summary

WITH AN EXCLUSIVE Q&A BETWEEN JIM AND KAVEH FOR THE AUDIOBOOK

Football used to be a sport. Then it became a business. Now it's 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 football's top prizes while the wrong deal can cost you your job and bankrupt your club. It's a fast-paced, 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 that's a price that's 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 game-changing deals in history, as well as the ones that got away.

Perceptive, entertaining and dynamically told, Deadline Day addresses some of the big questions facing the game in a definitive, never-before-told inside story of football's transfer window.

©2023 Jim White and Kaveh Solhekol (P)2023 Hachette Audio UK
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Critic reviews

In modern times Jim White has broken more big football stories than anyone else I know and that's all down to how well thought of he is in the game. He's a real mover and shaker and he knows everyone. If you want the inside story about the world of football buy this book (Graeme Souness)

The best football book of the year. A must-read for anyone who loves football (Harry Redknapp)
If you love football, you will love this book (Sir Rod Stewart)

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Great listen

gives great insight into a journalist's world. Jim is a top man love his talk sport show in the mornings! keep up the good work mate. 👍

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Really great insight into the world you guys live in and cover. Thanks very much

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