Football's secret trade how the player transfer market was infiltrated

A no-holds-barred exposé on the financial transactions of the world's favourite sport The transfer fees clubs pay to sign top players now top €4 billion a year but much of the money has been flowing out of the game. A small group of wealthy investors including Russian oligarchs, English raceh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Duff, Alex, 1971- author (author), Panja, Tariq, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Sussex, England : Wiley 2017.
Edición:1st edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009630145206719
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  • Machine generated contents note: Prologue 1 1 The Son of Jesús 9 2 The Chess Champion 23 3 The British Tax Exile 41 4 An East End Scandal 53 5 The Prime Minister's Men 67 6 The 100-to-1 Shot 79 7 The Switzerland of South America 93 8 "Todo Pasa" 107 9 Buenos Aires to Manchester 121 10 "I Want 40% for the Boy" 137 11 The Pharmacist's Medicine 151 12 Working on a Dream 161 13 The Baur au Lac 175 14 The End Game? 187 Epilogue 199 Bibliography 207 Acknowledgments 209 About the Authors 211 Index 213.