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What Effect Does the Buying Club have on Football Transfers?

Thursday, 10. 29. 2009 – Category: Guide to Football Transfer Rumours

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The correct way for a buying club to get involved in a football transfer, is for the buying club to submit an offer for a player to the selling club. Often managers, or chairmen, will discuss the proposed transfer, through a meeting or series of meetings. This will determine whether the deal moves through or not. The outcomes of these meetings could be as follows

Selling Club Interested & Player Interested

If the selling club and the player are interested, then assuming the price selling club’s price and the wage demands of the player are acceptable to the buying club, then the deal will kick off. If the terms being offered by the selling club and the player are not acceptable, the buying club can either attempt to negotiate with both parties, or walk away from the deal.

Selling Club Interested & Player Not Interested

It’s pretty rare for this to happen, generally if players find out that their manager sees them as dispensible, they’ll want to move. An excellent example of this happening was Winston Bogarde, who signed a very expensive, long term contract with Chelsea (much to Bogarde’s surprise), before everyone discovered that he was cack. He then went on to sit in the reserves for 4 years, and earned a crapload of money. Read all about it here.

Selling Club Not Interested & Player Interested

This should never happen. If the selling club doesn’t want to sell the player, then the buying club has no legal recourse to discuss the matter with the player. There are a number of different factors which could change this, including the Bosman Ruling, The Webster Ruling. The buying club could also tap up the player, although that is not only illegal but deeply immoral. In this situation, however, the selling club is still at a weakness, as if the player really wants to move, they’re not really committed to the cause of their club. This often means that the selling clubs hand is forced and they need to sell the player. The small benefit for the selling club is that they can hopefully replace a player who doesn’t want to be there with one who does. A good example of this was Joleon Lescott’s transfer to Manchester City, the player clearly wanted to move, Everton did not want to sell, but Lescott kicked up such a fuss about it that in the end, Everton needed to sell him.