Money money money
January 18, 2011 § 2 Comments
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it
– Publilius Syrus
No transfer is an island. The price of a player is almost never an isolated assessment of the player’s ability translated into currency. Rather, it is a product of the players ability refracted through a host of external factors, most notably the relative status and financial positions of the clubs, the composition of the two squads, the contractual and personal obligations of the player, the chicanery of agents, the nationality of the player and, since the introduction of the transfer window, the timing of the deal. « Read the rest of this entry »
