Why World Cup transfers are problematic

Enzo Fernandez

Add Enzo Fernandes in the list who just signed for Chelsea

Let’s hope enzo fernandez doesn’t turn out the same as james

Alexis Sanchez to Arsenal 😘
Although, he wasn't a hidden gem and was always decent enough at Barca.

Yeah whoever signs that messi guy is going to regret it

You didn't mention that big teams can afford to overpay for players. They can later sell them, but what they can't afford is to lose a chance to sign players like Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe, Haaland, etc. What is better to buy 10 or 20 young players with relatively small amounts, among them is a player who would cost 100+ million in 5 years, or not buy young players and then shell out that 100+ million.

Another phenomenon is what is known in USA leagues (NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL) as "contract year". There are a lot of players who will perform at peak level when they are up for a new bigger contract, but when they get that their game will drop back to the old level. World Cup is a perfect place for players to show what they got, so they get their paycheck and go back to their old level.

Well I wish that amrabat a player that shined on this world cup would join Liverpool or spurs , teams that really need a CDM

i disagree that it seldom influences club's transfer policies, it's not that unheard of for players to garner more attention in the transfer market after performing well at an international tournament

i disagree with your take on James Rodriguez. That was also a marketing move, James IG followers and pretty much his popularity sky rocketed and became a Global Icon during the world cup. Not only because he has an amazing world cup pefromance, but also because of his profile (Hyped young South American talent, marketing potential based on his physical apperance, and to grow Resal Madrid following/ populairty count during the world cup). Also, lets be honest, he was an exeptional player at his time at Porto, Monca and performed even better for the colombian nationa team. He declined because he's style of play and position does not trive under the new modern game. James is a tradition south american 10 and to be honst, the 10 position is dead as of now. He also was not the most consistent player under club football. He needed the team to cater for him so he can shine. Anyway, he was world class only for 1-2 seasons when drasticallly decline. Bueatiful but sad story

OK so im watching this on a Tues, I'm just wondering whether that was Stoke on the rainy map of England?

The only real flop RM has had over the past decade with spotlight signings was Hazard. Kroos, James, Navas, Modric were amazing ones

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As a Bolton Wanderers fan it luckily work well for us when we bought Jay-Jay Okocha

One success story that sticks out to me is the Ribery story. He played well enough in the 2006 WC that Bayern ended up signing him. The rest is history.

"National teams have a common language"… except when they don't, of course

James was absolute bomb on the 1st season. After ancelotti left, during zidane's tenure everything collapsed, because zidane had not utilized his strengths