The first extracts have begun to appear from Sven: My Story, the memoir of the former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. Few men have lived their lives so publicly in the past decade, yet he has managed to hold back some surprises …

Nancy, Ulrika and Faria were the tip of the iceberg

We remember Eriksson for his longterm (and longsuffering) girlfriend Nancy Dell'Olio, and of course for his well-publicised affairs with Ulrika Jonsson and Faria Alam, a secretary at the Football Association. Yet the full extent of Sven's intimate entanglements is almost too much even for him to keep track of. "In January 2006," he says, "I'd started seeing Roxy, a singer and former gymnast from Romania. There was also a Swedish woman who worked for Scandinavian Airlines. By [July 2007], I was involved with a really nice Swedish woman called Malin who worked at the Grand hotel in Stockholm." In three extracts, he mentions nine specific lovers, all after his divorce from his wife Anki. He even rented villas and apartments specifically for trysts. "It happened that I met other women, too," he recalls drily from time to time.

But Nancy was no picnic

According to Eriksson, Dell'Olio had very expensive tastes, endlessly demanding luxury holidays and fresh bursts of redecoration. "The minute you woke up in the morning, you had to decide where you were going to eat dinner that night. It was exhausting," he says. "I don't know how many times I told her to go and find another man, preferably someone with a lot of money." At the end, he says she overstayed her allotted time in his London apartment by four years, and then left with all his utensils.

He practises free love

Or at least covertly free. Before encouraging Nancy to find a rich boyfriend, he had been happy to make a deal allowing her husband to take her to the US for a week to try to win her back. For a while in early 2004, he also seems to have shared Faria Alam with the then chief executive of the FA, Mark Palios. Certainly many of his girlfriends shared him. Nor is he a snob about who he sees, it must be said. His current partner, Yaniseth, is a Panamanian nightclub dancer who accosted him on the street in Mexico.

Faria Alam sounds like his favourite ex

Eriksson is often quite happy with flings. "I know that I did not envision any longterm future for us," he says, for instance, about his time with Jonsson. Yet when he and Alam had to stop seeing each other following the public disclosure of their affair and her sale (which didn't bother him) of articles that "contained quite graphic descriptions of our love-making", he was sad to let her go. "I think love had even blossomed," he says, "at least from my end."

Most of the money's gone

Not because Nancy spent it, but because, Eriksson claims, he allowed his finances to be managed by an adviser called Samir Khan. According to the book, Eriksson gave Khan almost complete control over his investments and allegedly wound up losing at least £10m. Now he says he has to sell his house in Sweden. The Daily Mail points out that he is currently earning £2m a year in China, which may help.