Daily Football Transfer Rumours

Guide to Football Transfer Rumours

Monday, 06. 1. 2009

In addition to plying you with all sorts of ridiculous rumours that are being bandied about in the press about football player transfer rumours, we like to lift the lid on the seamy world of player transfers, agents, clubs, CEOs, Managers, Directors of Football and so on. We’re not claiming to be experts so if you know any of this to be wrong, please let us know through the comments and we’ll happily update our content.

So to give you, dear reader, an insight into this murky world, we’ll be releasing a series of articles over the next coming weeks and months to impart all the information that we’ve managed to glean. To whet your whistle, here are some of the topics we’re going to look at.

• Who are the key players in football transfers? We identify each of the key players and describe their role in the process.
• How do football transfers work? What’s the actual process that takes a player from Real Madrid to LA Galaxy, or from Accrington Stanley to Burnley.
• What factors affect a football transfer? With the high end transactions in particular, there are a great number of factors that can affect a football transfer and we’re going to run through some of the key ones.
• What effect the player can have on football transfers? The days of “That’s not your leg son” are long gone, players now wield the power when it comes to transfers. We run through the why and how of player initiated transfers.
• What effect does the agent have on football transfers? Ahhh agents, the seamy underbelly of the football world. Why do they exist? Why would anyone want to talk to an agent? Why would a player want to give money to an agent? Why is Bernie Mandic such a dick?
• What effect does the buying club have on football transfers? How can the buying club effect a football transfer?
• What effect does the selling club have on football transfers? How can the selling club (or not selling club) effect football transfers.
• What effect does the press have on football transfers? A brief detour around the idiotic brain of Piers Morgan.
• How do football transfer rumours occur? Logic would dictate that in order to keep things sane, no company would want to get the press involved, so how does it happen?
• What to look for with football rumours? What to look for with transfer rumours, to assess their accuracy. Why you should never believe anything you read in News of the World.
• How does the Bosman ruling work? The Bosman ruling, the bane of all managers, the love of all high maintenance players, what is it? Why does it exist?
• Similarly, what is the Webster ruling?
• Transfer Bans? What’s that all about?
• What is ‘tapping up’ and how does it work? An insight into the laws and regulations around football transfers and how to break them.
• How does scouting work? What and how are players scouted?
• How do transfer payments work? What kind of conditions are made on football transfer payments..
• Player swaps? Do they really happen?
• Player payments? What do players look for in a deal, why would they want to swap clubs.

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