they can exercise this power over the increasingly desperate clubs that pay them. As I mentioned before, the only benefi t clubs get from a new contract is the prospect of receiving a transfer fee when, not if, the young man decides to jump ship.


If a new player


signs a fi ve year deal and cites this transfer as “a dream come true”, you’ll be lucky to see him in your team’s colours for three seasons of mediocrity before the inevitable switch to the club he’s “supported since he


was a boy”. Then of course, there is the


issue of the weekly wage. Those players with itchy feet, in tandem with the snake-like creature known as ‘the agent’, will pimp themselves out across the media saying “so-and-so wants to buy me, blah-blah- blah, yadda-yadda-yadda”, before the player’s club is panicked into offering a boy with thirty fi rst team appearances...


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