“Arsenal never buy proven players”. Well, not quite…

By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s transfer of Yaya Sanogo on a free (as he had let his last contract run down) was met with a torrent of abuse from a number of members of the AAA writing to the BBC web site. They basically made the point that Mr Wenger was once again buying in young …

How agents create transfer myths and use the press to advertise their players

By Tony Attwood Distraction, Deception and Destructive Expectation.  Three ways in which the transfer market is run – I mentioned them a year ago during the crazy transfer window expectations, and hoped that maybe the situation was getting so out of control that maybe in the end the whole system would fall apart. It didn’t …