Player Manager is the wildly popular 22 book (and counting!) series which started on a well known serial writing website, and is now over 4.3 million words. The author, Ted Steel, likes writing about football, and sometimes elves, but not about himself. If Ted Steel was destined to be interesting, his parents would have given him a cool name like Cliff Daps.
The first seven volumes of the story are now available on Kindle (and on Kindle Unlimited and Audible, all published by Podium). Read 8 more Player Manager books on Patreon (or other websites).
Soccer Supremo (the continuation of Player Manager, consisting of books 15-21 in the overall series) can also be found on Patreon, right here on this fine website, and for book one, on Kindle and Audible.
DoF (the final set of books for the overarching series), with one book complete and the second started, can also be found on Patreon.
For Premier League superfans, knowing everything about every player is a point of pride; for Max, it could be a chance to take the biggest shot of his life.
Max Best is not living his—ahem—best life. His job’s a drag, his home’s a shooting gallery, his hopes are nil, and lately, even his beloved game of football has devolved from a chaotic, ecstatic delight into a cold, calculating equation complete with stats, tech terms, and mindless lingo. But then Max rescues a mysterious old man from a mugging. “Nick” seems friendly enough . . . until he innocently asks his saviour, “Would you sell your soul to be a top football manager?”
Naturally, Max says yes, and in that instant, everything changes. Suddenly, whenever he watches a footie match, the skills and attributes of every player are visible to him within an eyes-only display. While he’s terrified at first, he quickly learns to appreciate his abilities—even embracing them to gain his own level-ups and experience. And he’s going to need them.
Because his otherworldly talent is about to have a massive effect on his real-world existence, catapulting him from small local matches to the insanity of top-tier football. But the more he succeeds, the more he’s torn between the simple, happy fanatic he once was and the master of the pitch he’s becoming. Soon Max will have to ask himself: Is football really a matter of life or death? Or is there something more important worth fighting for?
Max Best is back, but this time, he's exactly the same.
Max's grinding is paying off. His football club's new stand is rising, his team tops the league, and his personal wealth is exploding. He even has his face on the cover of Soccer Supremo, the best-selling football management game. But just as things are finally going his way, he decides to risk it all by taking on a new challenge and a new enemy. There's no way it will work and no way he will get away with it... and that's just the way he likes it.
"When the beautiful game turns ugly, Max Best is there to give it a haircut."