Say the true thing
Including when it costs us the client. A player who is told the truth early has time to act on it.
Est. 2018
An agency named
An agency named
after its method
The turf is the craft — built through years on training grounds, working with scouts, coaches, and football people who understand the game. The numbers are the evidence — performance data, contractual detail, market intelligence, and long-term projections. A serious football career requires both: the insight to understand the player and the evidence to validate the opportunity. We built TNSM to bring the two together.
The story
It started with a
It started with a
bad contract
In 2017, our Founder, Mr. Humphrey Odia Iseguan, a FIFA Licensed Football Agent sat across from a nineteen-year-old who had just signed his first professional contract. He was delighted. He just didn’t know what he had signed.
His appearance bonus was structured to be almost unreachable. His release clause applied only during one transfer window. And the agent who negotiated the deal had been paid by both sides.
Nobody had lied to him. Nobody had shown him the numbers either.
Turf & Numbers Sports Management was founded the following year on a different principle: every number must have a reason behind it. Every clause must be understood. Every recommendation must be defensible. If we cannot explain why a deal is good, we do not tell a player it is.
Seven seasons later, that discipline has taken us into 32 countries and through more than 20 career mandates. We still turn down far more applications than we accept.
And we still tell people why.
Turf & Numbers Sports Management
Credentials
Licensed, and
Licensed, and
checkable
Any player can and should verify an agent before signing. Ours is one scan away.
202305-2010
FIFA Football Agent
Humphery Iseguan
Scan the code or check the licence directly with FIFA. Every player has the right to confirm their agent is licensed before signing anything.
2018
Established
Seven seasons in the market
20 +
Careers managed
Senior, youth and academy
32
Countries worked
Europe, Africa, Gulf, Americas
96 %
Client retention
Season on season
What we hold to
Four rules,
Four rules,
no exceptions
These are not posters on a wall. They are the reasons we have lost clients, and the reasons the rest have stayed.
Show the working
Every recommendation comes with the model behind it. No number is ever presented without its reasoning.
Play the long season
We are measured on where a client is in five years, not on the size of one summer's commission.
Protect the person
Relocation, family, education, life after the last contract. The career is finite. The person is not.
The method
Two halves
Two halves
of one game
Eyes on the grass
Scouts in stadiums, not on streaming platforms. Relationships with sporting directors built over years, not bought in a window. The judgement that tells you whether a first touch survives a level up.
Proof on the page
Comparable wage bands, appearance triggers, sell-on structures, tax exposure, five-year projections. Modelled before signature and explained in plain language, every time.
How we work
Five stages.
Five stages.
No surprises.
The same process for a Championship regular and an eighteen-year-old out of an academy. Only the numbers change.
Assessment
A structured review of footage, physical data, contract status and ambition. We tell you honestly where you sit in the market — including when the answer is not what you hoped.
The Plan
A written five-year career map: target leagues, realistic wage bands, the minutes needed at each stage and the clubs whose systems actually fit how you play.
Placement
We work our club network directly — sporting directors, heads of recruitment, coaches and other FIFA Licensed Agents. Real conversations with named decision-makers, never mass emails.
Negotiation
Every offer modelled clause by clause before you see it, so the decision is made on complete information and the numbers are never a surprise.
The Long Season
Once signed, the work continues: welfare, relocation, performance reviews, renewal timing and the commercial side building quietly in the background.
Straight answers
Questions we
Questions we
get asked
No. We are paid by commission on deals we complete, in line with FIFA Football Agent Regulations. We never charge a player a fee to join the roster, to be assessed, or to be put forward for a trial. Any agency that does should be treated with real caution.
We work across senior professionals, semi-professionals with a credible route up, and academy graduates aged eighteen and over. Under FIFA Football Agent Regulations our licence does not extend to representing minors, so we cannot take on players under 18 — including for trials. What matters more than current level is honest ambition and a willingness to move for minutes. We turn down far more applications than we accept, and we tell people why.
Our strongest networks are in the Europe, the Gulf and West Africa. We place into 32 countries in total and are candid when a market is outside our reach rather than promising access we do not have.
It depends entirely on window timing, registration status and level. A realistic range is six weeks to two windows. Anyone promising a signed contract by a fixed date is guessing.
Yes, and many do. Send us the profile — position, system, budget band, timeline — and we return a shortlist with footage and data, usually within five working days.
Yes. TNSM is represented by Mr. Humphrey Iseguan, FIFA Football Agent licence number 202305-2010 (FIFA Connect ID 1N21KN2), currently valid. You can verify it yourself on the FIFA agent register — the QR code on our contact and agency pages links straight to the FIFA validation page. Our licence does not extend to representing minors, so we act only for players aged 18 and over.
Next step
Careers are built, not stumbled into
Tell us where you are and where you want to be. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right agency to get you there — and what it would take.