World Football: How the Transfer System Has Defeated Itself

. Instead, clubs want to sign players left, right, and centre and leave them high and dry after they realize that there was, in fact, no use in signing them in the first place.

Players like Winston Bogarde (who infamously earned £40,000 a week at Chelsea), Andriy Shevchenko, Nicolas Anelka (when he signed for Real Madrid), and so many more have wrecked their own careers by simply making poor choices.

The clubs also dished out a considerable amount of money for these players and got very less "value for money," before selling them on for knock-down prices.

Conversely, when they're doing well, players demand moves from their clubs just to earn more money. When they put in a transfer-request, all the clubs can do is try to make a large profit by selling their stars.

By providing clubs and managers with quick fixes, the transfer system is doing some real damage to the footballing world. When people that run the sport like Sepp Blatter effectively hand all the power to the players, you can't help but think what might have been if clubs weren't allowed to transfer players unless they were out of contract.

It might have not been the perfect situation, but at least some clubs could have been saved, and some players could have fulfilled their potential. Some players might have not left a bitter taste in fans' mouths by declaring their wish to leave at the end of every season, only for them to stay and play for the club that they wanted to leave a few weeks back.

The saddest thing is that the fans, who devote their time, money, and energy towards supporting these players and clubs, are the ones that suffer. They see their heroes on their knees (like I've seen Thierry Henry in the past year) or see their beloved clubs fall apart after all the "transfer frenzy."

In a certain sense, the transfer system may have simply defeated its own raison d'être.

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