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In professional football, a transfer is the action taken whenever a player under contract moves between professional clubs. It refers to the transferring of a player’s registration from one professional 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. 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.
The concept of a football transfer first came into existence in England after the Football Association (FA) introduced player registration sometime after 1885.
Before that, a player could agree to play one or more games for any football club. After the FA recognized professionalism in 1885, it sought to control…