Brooke Moore
Nobody really understands the transfer market and exactly how it works. It is too big and too disparate for comprehension. Just learning and knowing a few of the basics will give you an advantage when asked about the transfer process and could possibly make you more marketable to employers.
Knowing how football players are recruited, who finds the players, why do they move, and how do they move. Knowing those four basic steps and questions will go a long way in the sport industry.
They players are recruited in European countries at a young age as they enter academies and begin to develop skills as a player. As soon as a player attaches to a club they apply for transfers. The players start at smaller clubs and eventually hope to transfer into bigger and better clubs.
There are three basic people who find players for the leagues. They are scouts, analysts, and agents. Scouts are mainly attached to clubs and they focus on the young players and determine how good they could actually be. It is the least glamorous of the three titles. Scouts look at the players while the Analysts look at the numbers and results. They like the numbers and direct facts of the sport. Agents are not affiliated with certain clubs or teams they are mainly interested in players that are looking to transfer.
The moving process is very simple. if a player feels that they are too good for a club; they move. If a player is not good enough to be a part of a club they move to a lesser one. Sometimes it is not that simple and adjustments need to be made or players do not want to transfer and ultimately it is up to the player and coach anyways.
The movement of a basic transfer is not very complicated. Clubs bring out an agreeable price for the player, wages are thought up and then the player is transferred. The players registration is transferred and then a new contract is signed. The basics are easy but when you get deep into it it is very confusing and each and every transfer is unique in its way.
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