Mercenary Transfer System Should Put Old Firm Deals Into Perspective
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AT A time of year when the majority of workers are flushed with the holiday spirit, football managers are engaged in the least appealing aspect of their job, the business of operating as both buyer and seller in the transfer market. It is an obligation that is especially gruelling for those in charge of clubs with aspirations to high achievement at home and abroad.
And the system, complicated by the rampant commercialisation of the game and the ever-growing influence of agents over the past two decades, has become so polluted that it moved the Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, to bitter condemnation at the weekend.See the full content of this document
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Mercenary Transfer System Should Put Old Firm Deals Into Perspective
The great Frenchman's criticism was prompted primarily by the conviction that the free-for-all has turned players into mercenaries. He talks from first-hand experience, facing the prospect of losing Emmanuel Adebayor and Aleksandr Hleb ...
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