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HOW DOES A TRANSFER START?The two parties will then keep going backwards and forwards until they negotiate a fee.Clubs may also contact an agent to work on their behalf and ask them to find a buyer for a particular player. This situation can arise if a player is not playing games.An agent might also speak to a club who decide that for whatever reason it is in the best interests of a player to leave. An agent would be given permission to speak to other clubs and given a specific fee the sellers have in mind for the player.You then have to delve through your contacts and I will either speak to a manager or a chief scout at a club.In the summer, a player might be out of contract and you can spend quite a bit of time phoning clubs and trying to place a player at a particular club.As an agent I will also speak to managers and chief scouts and ask which positions they are looking to fill. They might say we need a left midfielder or a big striker with pace and you have to check whether there is someone available for them in their budget.If a player who I represent is under contract then a written offer will have to be put in to his club.WHAT HAPPENS ONCE A FEE IS AGREED?A fee can be agreed but it does not mean a move will go through. But, once it is, then the job of the agent is to agree personal terms on the player's behalf.The agent is there to secure the best possible deal for his client and this can take a little time.Professional and financial issues will be taken into consideration such as: whether the player is going to play, the wage and the length of the contract.It is a bit of negotiation and compromise. The agent wants to realise a player's value to a club while the club will be looking to minimise their outlay as much as they can.If the player is of a certain level the club will be prepared to offer him a better package than for a less valuable player.Issues which arise in the negotiation process include:An adjustable salary: This would see an increase in salary year-on-year and after a certain number of appearances.A signing-on fee: This is a payment the player gets for signing for a club, although this may vary and depend from league to league.At the larger clubs you get a payment when you sign and then a fee split over a couple of yearsIf a number of clubs have agreed a fee for a player then he will weigh up a number of aspects.These may include whether he is going to play more at one club than another, the package he is getting and how much he will have to uproot his family.It often comes down to a wide range of reasons but for most players, first and foremost, it can be about how many minutes on the pitch they are going to get.BONUSES AND IMAGE RIGHTSThere is plenty to be done in fine-tuning a deal and some of the major aspects can include negotiating the following:Loyalty bonus: A player will get this for seeing out his contract at a club and it will be paid on the last game of the season in the final year of a contract.Appearance bonus: If appearance money is X then you would get 100% for a start, maybe 50% for a playing substitute and 25% as a non-playing substitute.Other bonuses: There can also be bonuses paid if a team wins the league, a cup, qualify for Europe or make a certain round of the cup.Often when a young player signs his first professional contract with a club after graduating through the academy they might get a bonus on their first-team debut or after a certain amount of games. Their contracts are usually also re-negotiated after five first-team starts.In addition, you can also have goalscoring bonuses, a clean sheet bonus, international bonuses and award bonuses.Clauses can also be included which depend on whether a club is relegated. If this happens a player may have it in his deal that he will be released or can speak to other clubs if a certain fee is tabled.Personal terms can sometimes take a bit of time with big players as there are more issues.Image rights ownership This is an important issue in contract negotiations.In short this is ensuring that the player has the right to control commercial use and exploitation of his image, voice and likeness.Agents may help their players set up their own image company and the club may come to an agreement that the player can keep hold of his image rights and the club will pay the player for use of his image.THE PLAYER'S ROLEIt is up to the player to concentrate on playing and the agent to take care of everything else.What I say to my players is that I am there to advise them and take care of everything off the pitch.I provide them with a comprehensive representation package: from contract negotiations and commercial opportunities to lifestyle openings and wealth management services.Ultimately, the transfer decision will be discussed between the agent and the player, who may also speak to his family.The agent should be doing things in the best interests of his player and, along with his player, will have to consider the standard of facilities at the club. Decisions may come down to the ambition of a club.Also, sometimes personal terms cannot be agreed and deals can look like they are going to happen and then fall through.After discussions with the player, he might decide he wants more money, not be happy with certain clauses or want a shorter or longer contract. It is then the agents job to tweak the clauses.As part of a deal a player will also have to undergo a medical.THE AGENT'S CUTAn agent can only be remunerated by one party. An agent will in most cases negotiate a fee with the buying club.The club will then pay this as a lump sum or in annual instalments. Any fee due to the agent is recorded in the documentation relating to agents which is sent off to the FA Premier League and Football Association.Of paramount importance to me is the happiness of my clients. You have to be a pretty unscrupulous agent to stop a player's move going through because of demanding high fees.Having said that agents may have put months of work into facilitating a transfer and, as such, are entitled to be paid for the work they have undertaken.WHEN THE DEAL IS DONEOnce everything is sorted certain documents need to be lodged with the relevant authorities for the transfer to be approved and registered.Documents are lodged with:The Football Association and Premier League if the transfer involves a player moving to a Premiership club.The Football League and FA if the transfer involves a player moving to a Football League club.The documents include the transfer documentation, the financial agreement between the two clubs, the players contract, the players registration, the players bonus schedule, and any forms relating to agents.Source~ BBC Sports Football

Waal that's too big a question to answer. I will try to be as broad as I can be. Living is South Africa is very complex for a number of reasons. This is because life usually, in most if not all cases, has the good and bad side. In my mother tongue (Shona) we say, ‘hakuna nyika isina rinda’ literally translated ‘there is no country without a grave’, meaning there is no country or area or community without some positivity and negativity. I would say the main factors that affect your stay in South Africa include the following;Where you are from (nationality)RaceSocietal ClassWhere you will live in JohannesburgI am a black Zimbabwean and as someone who entered South Africa legally and on what would be a middle class ticket, so my experiences will be very different compared to a fellow Black Zimbabwean in another societal class let alone a white, colored Zimbabwean or someone from another country. There are a lots of illegal migrants in South Africa and this causes tension and complications. It can be argued that South Africa is not very receptive of fellow Africans especially black as witnessed by the Xenophobic attacks in 2008 and 2015. If you are white you will not be affected by such. Sadly though the attacks were a societal class issue. Most of the attacks happened in the informal settlements and townships and not in Sandton for example (Sandton is where the money is made in South Africa). So the attacks then can be identified as a class struggle and the main issues that have come out of the attacks where things like someone is taking my job, my wife, my girlfriend etc. A number of South Africans blame foreigners for the problems they face. Besides this there is also tension that you might feel being in places where you might not be expected to be as a non South African. As a black person I am expected to speak any vernacular language, mind you there are 12 official languages of which 10 of them are vernacular languages. So it's tricky and this is where you are from matters. Whites generally get away with this because they are not expected to speak any of these 10 languages. I must say that there are some whites who speak vernacular languages though. If you happen to be black and you are in the middle or upper class you are most likely going to get away with this because you will be in areas (where you live, work, where your kids go to school, places you hang out etc) as you will easily converse in English. It's a fact there are a lot of South Africans who think this is bullocks. I know many South Africans who don't believe in that and are against this notion. I have lots of good South African friends who accepted me for who I am. In my first job at a professional company my fellow colleagues stole my office keys never to see them ever again, that's how bad it can get. Anyway I must say I have gotten away from what my fellow country men experience because of my societal class, I think. I spent a lot making sure I live is a secure area, had to have a car and my kids had to go to a private school. These 3 budget items costs a lost of money in Jo’burg by the way. I wouldn't honestly live in Soweto, Alex even if given an opportunity because in 2008 and 2014, some people born and bred in those areas were attacked just because they are foreigners by descent e.g. born on non-South African parents.Besides this Johannesburg is the commercial city and is in Gauteng Province which is the heart beat of the country. There are world class facilities like OR Tambo International Airport, Gautrain, Sandton City. There are lots of malls in most parts of the city. The highways (free ways as they are called in South Africa) are world class with some sections with 5 lanes going in one direction. Traffic can be bad in the freeway in the morning and evening. The public transport is very very poor, you cannot rely on public transport. Public transport is mostly mini buses and these are called taxis in South Africa. A taxi as known in most parts of the world is referred to as a meter taxi. There is also abject poverty that is a throw stone away from some of the richest places e.g Alexandra aka Alex. Places like Alex, Kliptown, and Soweto have sections with shocking state of houses with sewerage streams more like canals in the Europe. People live in what are called shacks, which are make shift houses usually made out of corrugated iron sheets. People just go on an open land and start building. In these places there are always bad fires due to the way they are build so close to each other literally back to back. There are also illegal electricity connections which go wrong most of the time resulting in fires. These are also deadly for kids as they are at the risk of being electrocuted. The other cause is use of candles and paraffin stoves or lamps. When these are left unattended they can start the fires. There are also high levels of crime in South Africa especially Jo’burg, statistics say so. I am glad to have never experienced it in my 9 years of living there. House robberies and car hijacking are rife especially in the so called ‘white suburbs’. White are generally targeted when it comes to crime because they are perceived to have more money, I would say not perceived actually - I think history and current status quo makes them have more money generally than most blacks and coloreds for a number of many reasons. I will not get into those. The most feared place in Johannesburg would be Hillbrow. This is one of the old area with flats and I am told until 1994 it was an area for whites as black were to live in townships and not allowed to live in the city. You hardly see a white man in Hillbrow today. The only few I have seen are pimps and own strip clubs or bars there. I would say Nigerians rule this place now. This is the place for everything bad you can think of prostitution, drugs, illegal migrants etc. I have been to Hillbrow many times and came unscathed and I thank God but generally people are afraid to go there even the South Africans. Hillbrow isn’t the inner city, it’s a few km from the CBD. Currently the City of Jo’burg is trying to revise the inner city (they have a vision 2050 to revive Inner Jo’burg) and there are parts of the city that have been developed recently and some young professionals have started to live in the city and some people are investing in properties there. I have been thinking of buying a flat there for a while but I am not sure. The idea is to make Jo’burg CBD like Cape Town CBD which has a more European city set up. I think it will take a while. Another section of mini Jo’burg is a place called Braamfontein, a student town and it has developed a lot since I left University of Witwatersrand in 2009. There is a British Property Company called South Point specializing in Student Accommodation which has really revived Braamfontein. Jo’burg is still a place where people have a place of work and a place to live. It's not the same as in Europe where people do live & work in the CBD. I think 4 million people commute to work on a daily basis relying on the poor public transport which is frustrating to say the least.There are tourist attractions in Jo’burg like Constitutional Hill, Main Reef City, Vilakazi Street in Soweto, Cradle of the Humankind North-West of Jo’burg etc. There are a number of cultural precincts like Newtown where you find the Market Theatre, Dance Factory and Baseline known for hosting musical concerts. There is also the Coca Cola Dome in Northgate which hosts international Artists. Most international artists who have been to South Africa have performed there. The population of greater Johannesburg should be around 8 million, I think. The City has the East and West of Jo’burg know as the old traditional areas with big houses and wider roads, the South is relatively new and the North is newer where there are narrow roads and lots of apartments/flats and townhouses, where most young middle class would want to live. It's regarded as the place to be. Rentals are a bit expensive there and so is buying a house. I lived in the North under a kilometer from Northgate mall and Coca Cola dome before moving to the West in mid 2012 and then left South Africa for Netherlands in September 2016. Generally people like to party and look good. I think South Africa has a lot of black females smokers than any other African country I have been to or lived in. In Africa smocking is rare amongst females let alone beer drinking. But with the millennials things are changing. In terms of relationships it's generally boyfriend and girlfriend even when people have kids and have lived together for years. I always joked that had I not married before moving to Jo’burg I probably wouldn't have gotten married. How you dress in South Africa and particularly in Jo’burg matters. People like shopping and going into malls, eating out, braaing and partying. People usually live beyond their means in Jo’burg. If you are not careful you can drown in debt. A number of people I know have bad credit records. The sad part is that they ended up with bad credit records for silly things like clothing accounts or a car. In South Africa a number of people have a car as a priority of what they need to buy first once they start working. Where I come from a home is a priority. I don't blame them, the public transport using taxis (mini buses) is nothing you can look forward to. Jo’burg is the place where most South Africans themselves want to be, as well as losts of migrants like myself. There are two Universities in Jo’burg namely University of Johannesburg and Wits University as well as a number for private colleges.Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs arguably are the biggest soccer clubs in South African Premier League are based in Joburg and so is BidVest Wits FC. There are are a couple of teams in Pretoria. Pretoria is 50km from Joburg. Pretoria is the capital city with lots of Embassies, it is dull and slow like most political capitals I have been to around the world. One can also argue that Mamelodi Sundowns are based in Jo’burg as their base is in Midrand which technically fall under Jo’burg. Sundowns is however regarded a Pretoria team probably because their home ground is in Pretoria despite their base being in Midrand.Like I said its complex. I think it's what you make out of living in a certain city or country more than anything because there are so many narratives that comes out of it. I am sure someone will have a different narrative.

10 Great Websites Where You Can Play Fantasy SportsAssembling imaginary or simulated teams made up of real professional athletes is the goal of any fantasy sports game. The performance of an individual player in the real game is tracked and converted into points that are cached and summed up according to a list selected by each fantasy team's manager.Nowadays, the points are updated in real time using computers tracking results of the real game. Basically, the real aim of any player is to win money and/or compete with fellow players or friends, but most, importantly to keep up-to-date with the particular sport.Let's look into some of the web portals that are a major part of this multi-billion dollar industry.1. FanduelFanduel is one of the dominant daily fantasy sports sites, based in New York. The company is believed to have a net worth of $1 billion. "Play when you want. Where you want. 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