when is the exact date that clubs can start puting there transfers through this will give us a good indication of who clubs have picked up and who they have lost
Always a pretty interesting time of year, seeing who's going where and why etc. Having looked back at the last twenty or so pages of posts there seems to be a lot of people "in the know" who seem to be bagging players for being mercenaries - why they were useless at their own club and know exactly how much they are being paid at their new club.
I reckon my question, and I would like your views, is, who is at fault - if anyone - the player or the club?
See, if the player worked at a Bottle Shop after uni or his job to make a bit more coin so he could buy a house or a racehorse or whatever; you would say he was a goer.
If the Bottle Shop over the road offered him a job in management or more coin per hour, better conditions and more chance of success and he knocked it back; you would say he was a total duffer.
However if the Bottle Shop over the road identified that this bloke was possibly vital to their future profits and did not make an offer to him - that is poor business. After 3 or 4 or 5 years of poor business - you are out of business.
The analogy is poor, I know - it does not take into account loyalty and mateship and the love of the jumper, etc.
However - who is at fault - the player who takes the coin or the club that is willing to offer it?