How to Become a Football Agent: The Guide

Book excerpt: With the total European wage bill for professional footballers in excess of £9.5 billion per year, the standard 10% that an agent receives from their client’s wage is already enticing people from all over the world. How to Become a Football Agent: The Guide offers a unique read with unparalleled insights into the workings of the beautiful game and seeks to help people to become football agents. With added advice from top agents such as Pere Guardiola, Ilhan Gündoğan and Harun Arslan, How to Become a Football Agent: The Guideincludes ‘expert opinions’ from the representatives of some of the very best footballing talent on offer. Also touching on football’s interaction with other industries like law and journalism, those such as Rory Smith (Chief Soccer Correspondent, New York Times) giveshis view on football agency, helping provide you with the skillset for a successful career in the exhilarating game of football or indeed any client based business. The team behind Football Agent Education has used their experience and network to compile this must-know information. Representing high-calibre players like Mesut Özil, llkay Gündoğan and Shkodran Mustafi, as well as coordinating numerous on- and off-pitch transactions, they are able to give readers unrivalled advice from previous experiences in this difficult yet rewarding industry.