International football transfer numbers and and player buying fees have fallen sharply worldwide in the past six months, says governing body Fifa. Completed player deals fell by 9% in the first six months of 2012, but their total financial value plunged by more than a third, falling by 34%. Total income from 4,973 transfers around the globe was $576m (£371m) Is this just the global recession biting or are clubs being more realsitic about the value of players?
In the long term can only be a good thing. Chasing inflated prices and wages are a spiral that have dragged even rich clubs into the mud. I agree that players wages should increase if they bring more money into the club...hence bonuses to Saints players for promotion...but wages recently have gone beyond that. Times of change are always difficult, but will be better if things reach a more sustainable level.
Am I missing something? With only two transfer windows a year, measuring this over a 6-month period seems pretty worthless.
So I can expect to see these savings passed on to me by cutting ticket prices? No in all seriousness, looking at just the Janurary transfer window is pointless, and with the premiership new TV deal expect any drop off in spending to be made up rapidly.
I would have waited until PSG have brought the players they want until releasing these so called facts
Would it be cynical of me to say that if transfer fees are dropping, the amount being paid in wages, to agents etc is going up? At least with a transfer the money paid remains in the game (well most of it), but the million pounds Reading are paying to Pogrebniak's agent is gone forever.
