As football's January transfer window prepares to shut on Friday, clubs, players and agents are involved in a complicated game of roulette -- just who will blink first?
For clubs, be they at the
top or the bottom of the table, the window offers a final chance to
either push them forward to title success or European Champions League
qualification, or potentially rescue their top-flight status.
There is an awful lot of money at stake as well as league position.
In 2013, world governing
body FIFA's Transfer Matching System handled 12,309 international player
moves -- an increase of 4% on 2012 -- which were worth $3.7 billion, up
a whopping 41%.
Thanks to a bumper
television deal worth $4.7 billion that is shared between the 20 Premier
League clubs, England spent more than any other country on transfers in
2013 -- $913 million -- an increase of 51% over the previous year.
That $913 million represents 25% of the global transfer spend
No comments:
Post a Comment