Last day, last hour... last minute

After many days, what do I say days, after many weeks, today for me, yesterday for you, what is called the soccer market was closed (not in all places, not in all markets), that which years ago lasted a couple of months and that now it remains open all year round because, one thing is that the registration time (we have also learned that one thing is to sign up and another to register) ends at midnight on September 1 and another is that "the market " it closes.

If you want proof, follow the news, especially the digital one, of the clubs in any media and you will see that what was closed at midnight on the 1st, was opened first thing in the morning on the 2nd.

We have lived through a market in which we have learned about the economics of sport, we have known more than ever that financial

also affected our team, whatever the type of project.

Before, it seemed that these things only happened to the big teams and to someone else who rushed their options looking to fish for the needs of the big teams and who could produce options at a good price and in good economic conditions to reinforce your team with players. that, perhaps, on July 1 they were impossible due to the budget and the player's demands, well, the player's agent.

Today none of that is the case anymore and the mess of cross-operations can touch any team and any minute of that last day that seems like the never-ending story.

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You can enter your office, if you managed to get out of it yesterday, of course, that September 1 with all the elements of your staff closed, with all the dossiers resolved, with the feeling of homework done and that a call, sometimes just a text message, start to disarm what has taken you many months to build.

An offer of those that cannot be rejected, one of those in which beforehand they could generate an internal debate as to whether it should be attended to, assessing what we could lose in sports by weakening our project.

But now, in the distressing economic situations that most clubs are going through, the debate is closing quickly, if there ever was one.

Wheels are put on the player's suitcase and that forces you to open your player files that can replace your sold player.

And, as we said in school, so on until you reach infinity, the operations are chained, the tensions are added, the solutions that at 10 in the morning seemed regular to you begin to seem possible or it can appear between everything that flood some gold nugget that must be closed quickly, before someone else takes it away in half an hour.

If you add all the agents and intermediaries to this, which is already complicated to manage globally, do not confuse one with the other, although an agent can also be an intermediary depending on the cap at that time.

All those who at the last moment have the magic operation, the one that will save your economy and the one that will take you to your best sports achievements and then, in half a second, many times without even saying goodbye, they vanish and you don't go back to know about them until the next transfer window.

And when it's all over... the weekend arrives and the Ferris wheel turns again.

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