“I’ve always been really motivated and obsessed with getting to where I want to be.”
Edited Transcript:
Introduction
Under The Floodlights: Every Saturday belongs to the players and the managers. But the game is built by far more people than just those on the pitch. One of my aims with Under the Floodlights is to shine a light on every corner of the non-league ecosystem. The people, professions and perspectives that don’t always get the attention they deserve. So for our very first interview I wanted to go somewhere a little different.
Our guest has worked across coaching, recruitment and now sports agency, giving him a unique perspective on how talent is identified, developed and represented. He’s also someone who’s literally written a master’s thesis on the pathway into elite performance analysis, researching what it takes to become a Category One Academy analyst and where the profession is heading. And during my research on this individual, I learned that he unfortunately at some point supported Spurs… but I cannot hold that against him. So it is my pleasure to welcome my good friend Noah Hustler. How are you Noah?
Noah: Thanks mate. Yeah, I’m very well. How are you?
Under The Floodlights: Yeah, I’m good. It’s a pleasure to have you on for my first interview, someone who has been very kind with their time, lending an ear, providing any sort of feedback and input that I’ve sought whilst navigating this football lifestyle.
Noah: Yeah, of course and I’m honoured that you chose me to be the first person you interviewed, your kind words are are great to hear, but obviously the relationship we’ve built up over the years has been one that’s benefited me an enormous amount as well. So it’s it’s been good to share our thoughts on the game and the different things that are going on in the game. So yeah, thank you for for having me on.
Under The Floodlights: For my first question, I have a little bit of a left field question for you. When was the moment you realised that you had an eye for football that would help you when looking to work in the football space? So for instance, I mentioned earlier I did a little bit of research on you. I’ve highlighted somewhere where I feel it may have been. So back in 2010, you posted a message on social media that read, “Go on bale, ur good.” Is that analysis that you were putting out back in 2010, something that led to you realising that you had a knack for this?
Noah: Yeah, Gareth Bale was as a Tottenham fan, a saviour. There was a season where the amount of times he cut in from the right onto his left foot and scored some screamers to get them three points was pretty impressive under Andre Villas Boas. I guess like a lot of young children, I loved playing football and really enjoyed it. I never got to play at any sort of credible level within an academy structure, I fell kind of short of that. But I always felt like I had a good idea of how football was played, not just by individuals but like tactically how teams would try and do things and I often as a young teenager would try and compare it to a game of chess, which I don’t think probably goes through many young teenagers’ minds at that time. But I very much saw the game like that. If we move a couple of pieces around, there might be a point that we can enter a dangerous position and then we could score a goal and I would try and explain these movements and actions to my mum. And and she would probably look at me quite crazy. But yeah, whenever I was watching a game of football as a young child and a teenager anyway, I’d always be thinking, of the 22 players on the pitch and how they’re impacting each other rather than just watching the one individual with the ball. Which probably started my thirst and desire to learn more about the game.
Under The Floodlights: Yeah, I appreciate that. I mean the 2010s, Gareth Bale had an indefinite grip on I think all young children’s love of the game.
Noah: Yeah! It’s an impressive amount of research you’ve done to be fair, to be able to dig that up so that’s respectable!
The Journey
Under The Floodlights: So let’s talk about your pathway. If you could tell us a little bit about your path in football. You’ve obviously got some very impressive experience and you’ve basically touched nearly every facet of the game. I don’t know if at some point you’re gonna try and get a medical degree and try out being a physio!
Noah: So as I just touched on there, I was obsessed with football, I was never good enough to be a professional footballer, which I think a lot of people would have similar experiences. But at the age of 16, I knew that I didn’t love anything more than football. So, how can I try and create something where football becomes more than just a hobby or something that I watch, can it become my job? I also had a very fond love for getting to understand people and how they tick. So I guess the psychology of human beings. And I tried to marry up the two and I thought at the time probably the clearest route to working in football when you’re not a player is coaching.
So I enrolled and started a college program at Hartpury College, which is widely renowned as one of the best sporting institutions this country’s got for football, rugby and equine. I went there and I guess that’s when I first started to understand what it might be like to work in sports. And like I said at that point, it was mainly just coaching. It was probably the first time where I’ve studied something academically that I was becoming quite obsessed with, so it didn’t actually feel like it was school or work. It was like a hobby and I would want to spend a lot of time trying to get good at it and trying to build a wider range of knowledge to ultimately get where I wanted to. I think one thing I’ve always had and I think at times people might say it’s to my downfall, but I see it as a massive advantage, I’ve always been really, really motivated and obsessed with getting to where I want to be. And that might mean that you have to, sacrifice certain things and miss certain things. Especially at such a young age, I’m talking about when I was 16, 17 but that’s where I wanted to go. My first kind of real job, in football where I was getting paid was with Arsenal soccer schools.
I used to get up at 5AM to get the bus to Oxford City Centre where I’d be coaching the under-11 at Arsenal Soccer Schools. We played in the Junior Premier League at the time, I was 17 and it was a good standard of football. It kind of bridged the gap at the time between grassroots and academy football. There’s quite a few good players that were in that team, Harry Whitwell is probably the biggest name, who’s now a professional footballer at West Brom was out on loan at Forest Green last year.
So yeah, it was a good starting point for me and like I said, my thirst for learning just got more and more and more. If I’d have said to you at the age of like 15, 14 that I’d have gone to university, I think you’d have been shocked and everyone around me would have been shocked. But when I started to learn that there was a course that involved studying football and the coaching and performance around football, suddenly that gripped me and made me think I could definitely do that in the future. So, it wasn’t a chore to go and dig out information on these things. It was a passion of mine, and I wanted to know more. I then got into Chichester University to study football coaching and performance and that’s probably where I’d say the real lift-off started. I found the lectures there and the people at the university fascinating. it was an amazing learning experience for me.
I was quite lucky, I had a pretty diverse group of people on my course that worked in different areas of football or had family that came from different areas of football, both in this country and abroad. And it just led to a few different doors opening up but I guess the main door that opened up to me was getting into Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club. I started by working in the community but as you touched upon there, I’ve worked in lots of different areas of football and to start all of it was in coaching.
So whether it was women’s football, disability football, youth football, or men’s senior football with the university first team. In my first year, my aim was just to try and cover as many different points of football as possible, and learn as much as I possibly could in the in the different challenges of that.
And then in my second and third year I wanted to try and narrow that off because ultimately I wanted to work in professional football at the highest level possible, which I deemed as the Premier League. I managed to graduate from that undergrad and was given a role alongside my masters to be a full-time analyst at Brighton and that was a fantastic opportunity. And to be honest with you, the only reason why I went down the performance analysis route is because I felt like it was the easiest entrance point to professional football at that point. Coaching was hard to get into because of the barriers in terms of having your badges but it seemed that performance analysis, all you really needed to do would be kind of study in a degree of some sort, and that would open up a few doors and of course, then you get into the interview room and your ability obviously allows you to either get the job or not. But yeah, I thought that was the easiest entrance point into professional football, but I also wanted to be different.
So I wanted to not just be a coach, I wanted to have something else that I could offer the team or the group of staff that I was working with and that would work both ways. So as an analyst having the background of coaching but also as a coach having the background of analysis and being able to do both. And a thought of mine at the time was also to try and learn another language as well but that fell short. Then after my undergrad at Chichester, which was amazing, I did my masters at Chichester whilst being at Brighton. Brighton was amazing for me, I met some great people, some fantastic professionals, people like Dan Ashworth were working at the football club at the time, who was probably at the forefront of talent identification and sports leadership, Simon Rusk was the 21s coach at the time, who was a brilliant coach and amazing on the grass. So his level of detail that he’d go into just was like an education for me every day, Shannon Ruth, who’s still at Brighton now, was a fantastic coach and great people person, and I learned a lot from them. Every day was great. It was like being at school! Could you pick up something new?
And that was the year that COVID hit. So it obviously had its challenges in the latter part of the year around March, April time. I obviously had a decision to make on what I was going to do in the following year once I graduated from my masters and I was lucky enough on my undergrad at Chichester I’d made quite a few contacts within the private school and independent schools football setting and I always knew that, that was an area that would potentially allow you to be full-time in football. And at that time I didn’t get offered another year at Brighton but being able to move into Ardingley College and become a full-time football coach allowed me to still kind of do everything that I’d done to that point.
So whether that be analysis, coaching, mentoring but also on a on a diverse spectrum as well, because it was some elite stuff with the first eleven, some PE teaching with children that perhaps didn’t like sport and physical activity but that was the challenge, to try and make your sessions motivating but also engaging with the girls stuff as well. So it was it was really good but at that point after one year at Ardingley, I’ve quickly realized that coaching probably wasn’t going to be it for me, because of the hours that you had to dictate to to being on the grass. I still had a massive love for football and for people. So I just started to think about what different opportunities might be available and can I really start to hone in on what I really enjoy? I applied for quite a lot of scouting positions across the country, whether that be in academies or first team or for non-league football clubs and I didn’t really get anywhere. But I pulled on a couple of connections that I had at Brighton and I was very fortunate to be offered a full-time job back in the academy as Grassroots Scouting Coordinator. So I was essentially in charge of all grassroots scouting within an hour and a half of the training ground.
Now for someone that had very little experience in scouting and recruitment before this, I was extremely lucky to get the position. The recruitment side I had touched on a bit before because it was always something that I did when I was Ardingley and even when I was at university they’d sometimes get me to try and sell the course and talk to future students around what the degree offered. So I was kind of used to the sales and recruitment side to it, but the scouting stuff was quite new to me. And then having to be in charge of a team of scouts, that was obviously something I had to get used to as well. But yeah, it was an amazing opportunity and one that I couldn’t turn down. So after two and a half years of being at Ardingley College, I moved back to Brighton into that role. And that’s probably where my first kind of experience dealing with agents began and seeing a different side to it.
And just to try and fast forward this long monologue about my journey into football. I basically started to realise that I care a lot about the individual players that I’d have on trial and I was trying to get them careers or opportunities within football as much as I possibly could, whether that was when they were successful at Brighton or if they weren’t successful. I’d be trying to draw on different opportunities for them and the agency world is very, very similar to the recruitment world and scouting world. It’s a very similar network but just one you work for the player and one you work for the club and I had built a very good relationship up with the guys at CMG Sports, and it felt like the right opportunity to to move from club football into the agency world but I will say that Brighton was an amazing club to work for. Marcus Heron, who was my my manager at the time, was a was a brilliant person to learn off and be guided by. But like I said, the agency stuff just probably came to me at the right time for me. And I’ve now been doing that for nearly two years.
Under The Floodlights: I wanna go back a little bit, obviously you’ve mentioned the whole of your pathway. I want to specifically talk about your role, as the Academy Recruitment Operations Coordinator at Brighton. From the outside looking in, from someone such as myself, that’s a really good role with an elite club, what did that role specifically involve on a day-to-day basis? and was there a moment that you felt like you’d made it in professional football?
Noah: So essentially I still had my role in terms of being accountable and leading and working alongside the guys that were out on the ground in the grassroots setting. So we had about about sixteen scouts that were covering an hour and a half of the training ground and then they would be reporting to me. We would host things like showcase events, talent ID events and we’d be in charge of of recruiting mainly for 9s-14s within the academy. So I would be the point of contact for those trialists and I would board them onto the program and for however long they were in the in the academy for make sure that they feel comfortable and have the right tools to be able to show their talent and ideally get into a position where they earn a contract with the club.
I also then merged into a bit of the national recruitment, so that was mainly focused on the 14s to 18s and just supporting the guys on that point, whether that be going out to games myself, covering and writing some reports or also just picking things up in meetings and collaborating with the national scouts on different things and just trying to help in any way I can. A big part of the role would be watching your own teams within the academy. So watching the different age groups and understanding what areas we potentially need to bring in, in terms of positions and also where where the focus is to really drive the gold players and and make sure that the pathway is clear for them.
At Brighton especially it’s very collaborative and you work within a wider disciplinary team and you play a big part in that. Everyone has a say, so I’d say 90% of my work was based at the training ground, working with the staff there. To the point of when did I feel like I’ve made it in football? like I said, as a 16-year-old starting out on the journey, If you said you would have said I’m gonna work full-time at a Premier League club one day, that almost is the dream but I’d say because of the because of the stages throughout it and the journey is up and down and and there’s a lot of different ways to manoeuvre in it. I’ve never got to a point and thought, like I’ve made it, you just always start to set your expectations higher and higher and higher.
And it’s a hard one because yeah, you don’t get to the top of the mountain and think, I’ve made it. You think what’s next? What bigger mountain can I climb? And I’ve tried to teach myself in recent years trying to be grateful and be present and appreciate what I’ve got. And of course I do have a massive amount of appreciation for what I’ve managed to achieve. But at the same time I’ve got a mindset that I always want more and can we go again and can we be better? And ultimately I think that mindset is the reason why I’ve got to where I’ve got to. So yeah, it did feel cool and it was a nice moment, but I didn’t rest on my laurels for very long and and think I’ve made it now. It was like, okay, can I get to this next position? Can I do this? Can I do that? and the motivation just starts again.
Under The Floodlights: I think that speaks to your determination. You don’t want to just do something. I feel like you want to be something, you want to be remembered around the ecosystem of football for leaving a lasting impact on the people that you deal with and the space itself.
Noah:I think that’s 100% true. And look, you’re someone that’s gone through this journey firsthand, you know, there’s a lot of people that say, I wanna work in football and I want to have a career in football and it sounds so cool that you’ve got a job in football, but the hard yards that go into getting the career and and doing the journey and the rejection you are gonna face because it’s so competitive to get into the different doors and into the building. You really do have to show different signs of your character.
And my biggest thing is that I don’t think I’ve made it by any means. But one thing that I will always circle back to is that I’m really grateful for the input of the people that helped me when I was trying to do something. I would always think and always try to give back to to as many different people as I possibly can because I appreciate it’s a tough journey.
The Transition from Club to Agency work
Under The Floodlights: You mentioned that you transitioned from a club role to an agency role as well as the differences that came with it but also the similarities with both roles. Was it difficult transitioning from representing the interests of a club to representing the interests of a player? And off the back of that, what is your general day-to-day at CMG Sports?
Noah: So there are differences between working and representing a club to now working and representing an agency, the first thing that I realised quite quickly that I probably didn’t appreciate was that when you’re sat in front of a player or a family and you’re saying we want to try and sign you and you’ve got the badge of a Premier League football club on your chest, that’s a very easy pitch. You’re going to make their day and it’s a really special moment to be a part of.
And when you go and work for an agency and there’s hundreds and thousands of agents out there, you suddenly quite quickly realise, you’ve really got to prove that you’re you’re good at what you do now and that what you’re saying is going to come true. So you can’t just lean back on the organisation or the badge you’ve got on your chest. You’ve actually got to prove your worth. So that was a very quick realisation but like I said, there are a lot of similarities. For instance, now being being on the agency side, the contacts that I built up whilst being club-side, both at the club I worked for, the different games that I went to and on the different courses I did. We even first met on a course! That’s the kind of network that you lean back on. And I often say to any people that are aspiring to be an agent, I think the best route to becoming an agent is now being part of a club, working for a club, because you start to understand that side of football and the different things that happen within a football club. How football clubs view contracts, how football clubs view pathways, how they see the academy versus the first team and those kinds of things.
But you also build a massive network of people and now on on the agency role, it’s a really cool job, it’s an amazing job working purely for a player because ultimately the player is going to decide how well their career goes because they’re they’re the ones that are performing on the pitch! But you can have such a massive influence on how well a player does, whether that be through your support and guiding them through different situations on a day-to-day basis or opening doors to things that they may not have had the opportunity to do before. Every day’s different! That’s probably the biggest thing for me, and explains why I wanted to do it and why I still love it now! One day you’ll you’ve got your coaching head on, obviously the players are always gonna learn more off their coaches at their clubs, but you might have to lean on your coaching background to give a bit of advice, on another day you might be creating clips to send to a player and going through it with an analysis head on. And then obviously when you’re recruiting for the agency, you’ve got to have your talent ID and your scouting head on to think about if who you’re working with and their potential marries up with what you can offer as an agent and that you share a similar vision.
To answer your question on what I do actually on a day-to-day basis, like I said, every day is different but the crux of it is scouting, so being out at games, watching games, speaking to different people in your network, understanding who the good players are, setting up and organising meetings with those players to try and onboard them. Setting up meetings with clubs to understand what requirements they have at the moment but also trying to pitch your player to them and and sell them ultimately. And then a different part of my role is to try and bring a bit of structure to the to the company. So I spend a lot of time on spreadsheets and on the phone to different staff members at CMG to make sure that we’re on track and doing different things.
My boss, the owner of of CMG Sports, Barney Cropford, allows a lot of freedom within my role, which I massively appreciate and he trusts that I’m trying to drive standards and push us along as much as we possibly can as an agency. Those would be the main pillars of my work on a week to week basis.
Under The Floodlights: It’s fascinating and and it’s really nice to hear for the people outside of the football industry who don’t necessarily understand the agency world, because it is a little bit of a of an unknown to the average football fan. I also want to point out that the course that Noah and I met on, I very much was not supposed to be on. It was offered out publicly when it shouldn’t have been so I’m very fortunate that I’m one of the few people outside of working for a club in the EPPP that has that qualification.
You have the experience of being outside of the agency world and then moving into the agency world. What do you think is the biggest misconception that people have about football agents that you’ve learned isn’t really true since moving into CMG?
Noah: I think the biggest thing is, everyone just looks at the money and and sees the glitz and glamour of what happens in the Premier League and in in the highest levels of of European football. I’m lucky, I have a salary and I’m massively supported by the agency that I work for, but a lot of agents out there are purely just earning money from commission. So essentially the players they have, equals the money that they get. So if you don’t have good players, then you’re not going to earn good money and trying to recruit good or high level players that you also connect with on a personal level is hard. It’s a challenge. There’s not just a handful of agents that have the ability to pitch to thousands and thousands of top players. It’s it’s almost like the reverse, You’ve got thousands and thousands of of agents that have the ability to pitch to a relatively small amount of players. If an agent does his job and and builds a good relationship and connection with the player, then the likelihood is that the player is going to go through the journey with that agency for a very long time having signed with them at 16.
Every time I enter a relationship with a with a player and we start to work together, my whole aim around that is to try and be working with them 15 years later and that we’ve gone on the journey together. But yeah, I’d definitely say that the money is the preconceived idea that agents have and that they get it easily. It’s not the case, it’s a really hard job and I’d say out of all my jobs in football, you can’t cruise being an agent. If you want to be successful at this and you want to get a good reputation, earn some decent money and look after some good players and good human beings, then you need to work really hard and you need to be super self disciplined and put a routine in place that’s gonna allow you to achieve all of that.
Relationship Management
Under The Floodlights: Your role puts you in the middle of players and the clubs, you know, you’re the intermediary, so relationships to you are everything. I think that’s something you touched upon earlier, you mentioned a lot of networking and spoke about having to maintain these relationships. How do you manage those relationships, particularly when negotiations potentially become difficult or clubs aren’t easy to deal with?
Noah: I think the first thing is remembering who you work for. You work on behalf of the player, so it’s about making sure that their interests are always at the forefront of any sort of discussion. And look, everything I try and do, I try to make it as professional as I possibly can. So I personally don’t find it hard to have those kind of conversations around certain bits because I like to think that the person on the receiving end of it knows where I’m coming from and knows that I’m trying to do right by the player. It’s just about trying to be honest and transparent all the way through. We spoke earlier on about my career and before that, I was never the brightest child at school but I think one thing I learned very early on is just about trying to maintain and have high levels of qualities that require zero talent.
Like effort, being on time, being respectful, being a good person, those values I still hold today. So it’s just about making sure that these values are always there when you’re speaking with these people. And the thing is, you’re gonna get on with some people, you’re not gonna get on with others, but it all boils down to making sure that the player that you’re representing is at the forefront of it all.
I think honesty is always the best way to go because that way no one can have any sort of qualms about what’s happening. They know that you’re being honest and transparent. And that’s something that I always try and do.
Under The Floodlights: Do you think football these days has become too reliant on data or do you feel like analytics are still underutilised in certain areas of the game and how has its evolution affected your own role?
Noah: Look, data is something that is extremely present in today’s game and I think it’s a positive thing. I think it allows people to see different things and it brings different ideas to the table. Ultimately it’s pretty factual but I also don’t think it should ever replace the human eye. I think the human eye and not just the human eye, but emotional intelligence. It is the strongest point of scouting, recruitment, coaching, all of those things because we are humans, we’re not robots and you need to have that personal influence. But I do think data allows you to analyse a bit deeper and maybe it saves us a bit of time understanding different things.
But where it is at the moment I think is fine. I don’t think it affects much from a negative perspective. I think it only has a positive impact, but I would say that the naked eye and the human side of things definitely can’t leave the game. That has to always remain and scouts have such an important part to play within football. They are the ones that are in the shadows but they do so many hard yards to make things happen and allow success and stories to take place. So, it’s just about trying to make sure that they’re both complementing each other.
Under The Floodlights: I agree! I think the more we use data, the better our analysis becomes, but it has to be paired with live scouting and the opinions of scouts.
Noah: I think that’s everything. In football it’s all about balance and making sure they both complement each other and that it comes to some form of a conclusion. It’s definitely a helpful tool and in an amount of young players now, because they’ve been brought up within these academy systems that introduction to data and analysis happens very, very early on. They kind of crave that kind of information but they also crave the detail and the ability to learn from other human beings too.
The Future of Agency
Under The Floodlights: You’ve mentioned a lot about your past experience and what that’s given you. I want to look ahead to your future potentially. Where do you see, specifically football representation, heading in the next five to ten years? Do you think there’s any further evolution there is to be had?
Noah: Having done quite a lot of research on how intermediatories and agents would have worked years ago compared to today, it’s definitely becoming a lot more of a 360° within agency work. Gone are the days where you’re just doing a contract and then you don’t see your client until two years later to do their next contract. It’s very much a day-to-day almost coaching like process, where you’re trying to get them to the best place they possibly can within their career. And I only think that’s going to get bigger and bigger and bigger.
And I think agencies are only going to grow and get bigger and they’re gonna have to keep up with the times and when these top players are are being pitched out by multiple different organisations in terms of agencies, you’re trying to look at ways in which you can stand out from the rest. And and that comes down to, do you offer nutrition support? Do you offer analysis? Do you offer preseason camps abroad? So you’re always trying to find a point where you can stand out from the rest. And as I’ve said, I only think that’s going to be more and more in demand as the game grows and as expectations go up.
I think that will create more jobs within agencies that want to keep up with the times. Of course for me, I think first and foremost, if a player’s going to sign with an agent, they need to know and trust that the agent has got the right network and contacts to be able to do the job for them. But also that they’re going to do everything in their in their power to make sure that their player is as looked after as possible and all those other bits are added things. But I definitely see that being something that’s gonna grow within the game. There’s a lot of agencies now that are buying other agencies and they’re becoming a bigger force, so I could see that happening a bit more as well. And then the rules and regs kind of change quite often as well. So it’s just about making sure that, and rightly so, you adapt with the times and make sure that you’re up to date with everything.
Quickfire Questions
Under The Floodlights: I’ve got a few quick fire questions here for you, so feel free to answer in sort of as little detail as possible. What is the most memorable moment of your career so far?
Noah: I think we probably touched upon it earlier. It probably was that first day in professional football working full-time. That was a pretty cool feeling! And then being on the side of the agency stuff, whether it’s signing a certain player that you feel has loads of potential and is a fantastic player to work with and that has great family support, that’s a great moment or seeing one of your players make their first team debut and do really well. You may have taken that player from the depths of non-league to them making their debut for a club in the championship and doing really well. That’s a special moment.
Under The Floodlights: Favourite holiday destination?
Noah: I’m a big fan of a place called Quinta de Lago in Portugal, which is actually a very good golfing destination. But that’s a place that I’ve gone to for many years. I’d probably say that is my favorite place to go abroad.
Under The Floodlights: Best restaurant in London?
Noah: There’s a place called Gold in Notting Hill in London. That’s probably my favourite!
Under The Floodlights: Favourite way to switch off from work?
Noah: Trying to go on a walk without your phone is probably the best way to try and decompress. As an agent, there’s very, very few moments where you can try and switch off. It is a pretty relentless job when you’re awake, which I love and I wouldn’t have any other way. And I think if anyone wants to be an agent, they’d probably need to understand that very quickly. But yeah, I’d probably say a walk.
Under The Floodlights: One word your friends would use to describe you?
Noah: I’d say entertaining probably.
Under The Floodlights: And lastly, are you happy?
Noah: Yeah, absolutely. 100%. I think we touched upon it earlier, there’s football and the competitive world that we operate in it does bring a lot of challenges and there’s a lot of sacrifices you’ve got to make. But I think making sure that you are as happy as you can be and that your mental health is in a good place, it’s really important to be aware of that because there are a hell of a lot of challenges that come with working in this industry. But yeah, if you’re not happy, there’s no point doing it.
Under The Floodlights: I wholeheartedly agree! Finally, every guest will get to ask a question for the next person that I interview. I don’t know who it will be yet. I have a couple of people in mind. One of them refuses to respond to my text messages, so we’ll see! So from your perspective, what is a question you would like me to ask them?
Noah: Just what’s your best bit of advice to getting to where you’ve got to currently would be the question. It’s something that I still love hearing from people now, but it’s something that I definitely would have craved as a younger version of me and if there’s any kind of snippets of advice that I could take into my day-to-day life, I would I’d definitely be interested to hear.
Under The Floodlights: Noah, thank you very much for taking the time to sit down and have this conversation with me. I’m sure everyone who reads or listens to the interview will find your insights fascinating and incredibly valuable. Particularly for anyone who’s looking to better understand the world of sports agency and the work that goes on behind the scenes and the work that you guys do.
I wish you all the very best for the upcoming season ahead, both personally and professionally. And with the season about to begin, I’m hoping things get that little bit quieter for you, although I somehow doubt that they will! So thanks again for joining us Under The Floodlights.
Noah: Thank you! I’ve really enjoyed my time speaking to you and talking about the different aspects. Obviously, a lot of it’s been about me, but I’m grateful for you asking me all the questions, and I’ve enjoyed talking to you about football and sharing our thoughts on different things. So thank you very much.
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