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So when a club signs a player they’re actually signing the players registration rights to play. The player could break the contract and go join another but that club wouldn’t own the players registration rights. Which means that fielding him would result in a forfeit.

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I am going to answer this in detail on how the transfer system came about. Perhaps, you'll find your answer there. And yes, this guy is still the most expensive player of all time.In football, a transfer is the action taken whenever a player under contract moves between clubs. 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, which is known as a transfer fee.When a player moves from one club to another, their old contract is terminated and they negotiate a new one with the club they are moving to. In some cases, however, transfers can function in a similar manner to player trades, as teams can offer another player on their squad as part of the compensation eg Lukaku-Rooney transfer.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 recognised professionalism in 1885, it sought to control professional players by introducing a player registration system. Players had to register with a club each season, even if he remained with the same club from the season before. A player was not allowed to play until he was registered for that season. Once a player was registered with a club, he was not allowed to be registered with or play for another club during the same season without the permission of the FA and the club that held his registration.Sometime after the Football League was formed in 1888, the FA decided that restrictions had to be placed on the ability of richer clubs to lure players from other clubs to prevent the league being dominated by a handful of clubs. From the start of the 1893–94 season onwards, once a player was registered with a Football League club, they could not be registered with any other club, even in subsequent seasons, without the permission of the club he was registered with. It applied even if the player's annual contract with the club holding their registration was not renewed after it expired. Football League clubs soon came to realize that they could demand and earn a transfer fee from any other Football League club as consideration for agreeing to release or transfer the player's registration.The transfer system remained unchanged until the Bosman ruling. The ruling is named after Jean-Marc Bosman, a former Belgian footballer who in 1990 was registered with Belgian Cup winners RFC Liège. His contract had expired and he was looking to move to French team Dunkerque, but Dunkerque refused to pay the transfer fee of £500,000 that Liège were asking for. Bosman was left in limbo and his wages were cut by 75% due to him not playing. After a lengthy legal battle, Bosman won his case on 15 December 1995 when the European Court of Justice ruled that players should legally be free to move when their contract expired.The first high-profile "Bosman transfer" was Edgar Davids, who departed Ajax for Milan, but lasted just one year in Milan before moving to rivals Juventus for a fee of over £5 million.The same summer, Luis Enrique made the controversial decision to let his Real Madrid contract run down by signing for rivals Barcelona.In 1999, Sol Campbell was arguably the most controversial Bosman transfer of all time when he moved from Tottenham Hotspur to fierce rivals Arsenal.In 2014, it was announced that Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski would leave the club for Bayern Munich in the upcoming summer when his contract expired.Another impact the case had was the rules regarding foreign players. Before the ruling was made, clubs throughout Europe were limited to the number of foreign players they could employ, and could only play a maximum of three in European competition. The ruling ensured a team could now choose to play a team of 11 foreign players if they wanted, as was the case when Chelsea became the first club to play a team of 11 foreign players.By 2007, the percentage of foreign players in England and Germany had reached 57%, compared with 39% in Spain and France, and 30% in Italy.Although there were leagues already implementing the practice, UEFA decided to enforce a continental transfer window in time for the 2002–03 season. UEFA chief executive at the time, Gerhard Aigner, said that part of the reason behind making the transfer window compulsory was to "stop the confusion that has followed Bosman", and, with regards to it possibly damaging smaller clubs financially, he said that it did not make sense that clubs would "depend on the transfer of a single player to survive the season".In England, the FA felt they were "reluctantly being forced" to accept the proposal, and FIFA relented somewhat by relaxing the rules regarding out-of-contract players, meaning that they could be signed up to a new club at any time.From 2002 to the present day, most leagues around Europe have two windows in which players may be purchased:The end of the season to 31 August.The entirety of the month of January.Sources: Wikipedia and Google