There has been controversy following the publication of Mary Earps' memoir - written with the help of a ghostwriter.
The former England and Paris St-Germain goalkeeper faced backlash after she made comments about former team-mate Hannah Hampton and manager Sarina Wiegman.
Earps told BBC Sport that she has not written her book to "tear anyone down" and feels that reaction to her words has been "distorted".
So, how much input do footballers have when using a ghostwriter to write for them?
Ghostwriters are professional writers who author books on behalf of a celebrity.
The celebrity's name will appear as the author despite the majority, if not all, of the writing being done by the ghostwriter - whose name will occasionally also feature on the front cover.
The job of the ghostwriter is to create the book in a tone that is fitting of the celebrity, using details about their life that they have discussed together.
The celebrity will usually tell the ghostwriter what they want included, but will not write the actual words themselves.
The Observer's Rory Smith has worked as a ghostwriter for several athletes, including former manager Rafa Benitez and ex-England player Micah Richards.
He told BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club that a key role of the writer is identifying what the audience wants to hear from a subject and encouraging the athlete to open up.
"I did Rafa Benitez's book and a lot of that was trying to persuade Rafa that a lot of the things he thought were boring, might be interesting to other people because to him the day-to-day of it wasn't nearly as interesting as the zonal-marking scheme," he said.
Smith says that anything that appears in Earps' book is likely to have been put in there at her request.
"I would imagine during that process if there was anything that [Earps] felt uneasy about, I think any decent ghost would say 'if you are uncomfortable about this, maybe we need to think about it'.
"It is her book. She gets the final say about what goes in. It is up to them, it is their memoir, it is their autobiography, they get the final say."
Owen Amos ghostwrote the autobiography of former football manager and player Stephen Constantine following "hours and hours" of interviews and transcribing.
He said the ghostwriter has to "work hard to capture how the subject speaks" and must be careful not to "overwrite and over-interpret" what they say.
"You are not there to paint your own pictures as a ghostwriter - you are there to get the subject's thoughts onto the page," he said.
"There was nothing that he wanted to include that I didn't, and there was nothing that I wanted to include that he didn't," he adds. "Certainly [Earps' ghostwriter] will probably be quite pleased that there was some dramatic element to the story - the last thing you want is a subject who doesn't want to say anything about anyone."
He agrees with Smith that he'd be "amazed" if Earps wasn't able to "change anything she wanted changed".
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