What does Transfer mean?

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Ryan Harris

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I've looked online and cannot find a detailed definition. Players on loan, wtf does that mean? New to actually following this on a regular basis and would like some insight if someone could be so kind.
 


This is surely a wind up?

I mean, WTF.

Anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_(association_football)

n professional football, a transfer is the action taken whenever a player under contract moves between clubs. It refers to the transferring of a player's registration from one association football club to another. In general, the players can only be transferred during a transfer window and according to the rules set by a governing body. Usually some sort of compensation is paid for the player's rights, which is known as a transfer fee. When a player moves from one club to another, his old contract is terminated and he negotiates a new one with the club he is moving to, unlike in American, Canadian and Australian sports, where teams essentially trade existing player contracts. However, in some cases, transfers can function in a similar manner to player trades, as teams can offer another player on their squad as part of the compensation.
As well as this type of regular transfer, which results in the player being owned by one club, other forms of transfer are used throughout South America and southern Europe. Co-ownership is a system whereby a club will buy 50% of the rights of a players' contract for one year and pay the wages, while also deciding which of the two clubs he will play for.[1] At the end of the year, both clubs can choose to place a bid in an auction, where the highest bid wins.[1] The co-ownership of Alessio Cerci by Torino and Fiorentina proved fruitful for Cerci and Torino,[2] who had paid €2.5m for the first 50%,[3] and picked up the remainder of his contract after a successful year for just €3.8m.[4] The practice has proved a controversial issue for Martin Samuel, who described it as being similar to a "cattle market".[5]

Third party ownership is ownership of a player's economic rights by third-party sources, such as football agents, sports-management agencies, or other investors. The transfer of Carlos Tevez to Manchester City for £47m in 2009 was controversial for the part played by third-party owner Media Sports Investment.[6]

Another method of transfer is a loan. This is where a player is allowed to temporarily play for a club other than the one he is currently contracted to. Loan deals may last from a few weeks to all season-long and can also be for a few seasons. Rarely, a loan of a player can be included in the transfer of another player e.g. the transfer of Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham Hotspur to Manchester United for £31m in 2008 included the loan of Fraizer Campbell in the opposite direction.

your welcome.
 

As I understand it...

Transfers refers to acquiring players, basically. In transfers you need to pay a fee to the team that currently owns the player and also negotiate with the player's agent for their wages. Transfers can only take place during a designated time period, a transfer window, which varies by league, but in the EPL is during the summer and during January. Any player, in principle, can be acquired as a transfer; there is no contract stating that players are immune from being approached by other teams (though contracts can bar a player/player's agent from initiating talks with other teams). Usually to land a player you just have to have the $$ and find a team that is willing to sell. You can also acquire a player via a loan, in which you basically negotiate with the team to pay the player's wages (or some percentage thereof) and/or a fee, and the loaned player will play for the new team but is restricted from playing in games where the new team plays the loaner team (e.g., Barry, last season was on loan to Everton from Man City, thus couldn't play in the Everton-Man City game).

Unlike US sports, there is no draft in EPL and player's contracts are rarely sold between teams. Most every time a player moves to a new team, a fee is payed and a new contract is drawn up.
 

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