叫び声をあげるing doctors, 私的な jets, jammed fax machines and admin hell: With the 移転 window about to 激突する shut, what's it REALLY like for the 経営者／支配人s, スパイ／執行官s and club staff at the sharp end?
- The next 24 hours are some of the most frantic in the football calendar
- Never any 不足 of entertainment and anecdotes on 移転 最終期限 day?
- For the people at the sharp end the hours running up to 5pm are anything but fun
- Peter Odemwingie was 伴う／関わるd in a 劇の 移転 最終期限 day 支援する in 2013
There may have already been over a billion 続けざまに猛撃するs splashed out in this 移転 window, but the next 24 hours are some of the most frantic in the football calendar.
As 経営者／支配人s frantically try to 安全な・保証する the last-minute buy that might save their 職業 ? or 推進する them up the league ? 最終期限 day has become the stuff of legend.
From Jim White trying to 支配（する）／統制する himself on Sky Sports News to ridiculous 報告（する）／憶測d sightings of 全世界の superstars at the most ありそうもない of grounds, there's never any 不足 of entertainment and anecdotes.
But for the men and women at the sharp end ? the players, 経営者／支配人s, スパイ／執行官s and club admin staff ? the hours running up to 5pm are anything but fun.
Here, in their own words, they 株 a snapshot of those manic final hours… 含むing how one club tried to 調印する TEN players in a 選び出す／独身 day!
From Jim White (left) trying to 支配（する）／統制する himself on Sky Sports News to ridiculous 報告（する）／憶測d sightings of 全世界の superstars at the most ありそうもない of grounds, 移転 最終期限 day is frenetic
The 最高の，を越す-flight 経営者／支配人
One really sticks out in my mind. We sold three players on the day and the place was 絶対の 大混乱. But we had a game that night too. I'm in my office at the stadium minutes before kick-off, on the phone to a 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of another club trying to get one coming in over the line.
My assistant 経営者／支配人 is out on the pitch doing the warm-up with the players. I'm getting really 失望させるd ? it's just not happening ? and 結局最後にはーなる 行方不明の out on this 的.
It was at the end of a dreadful window for me but my night went from bad to worse. We're chasing the game, the 対立's goalkeeping coach has hidden the ball in their dugout and I've lost my temper. I ended up getting sent to the stands! You try to manage your emotions but it's really difficult.
Former Wes t Brom 今後 Peter?Odemwingie was 伴う／関わるd in a 劇の 最終期限 day in 2013
The スパイ／執行官
There was one club I was working with in League One and they hadn't ever done an international 移転 before. You need the 移転 Matching System (TMS) for that and nobody there had undergone any training for it. I was sat there until midnight with the player, waiting and waiting, and it just didn't get done.
He was 絶対 gutted. It's an admin problem, what can you do? It was four or five hours and they couldn't do it. Listen, these are often your only chances of getting a move away from 確かな 状況／情勢s.
Then there is the extravagance. I've probably been in three 私的な jets on 最終期限 day alone and that all feels so surreal. No check-in, no waiting, the jet doors shut and you're off. One player had two clubs after him. One 申し込む／申し出d him a Ryanair flight, the other 調書をとる／予約するd a jet. Which one do you think he went with in the end?
Man City's 新規加入 of Robinho in 2008 証明するd the club could attract the world's best players
Fans show their support for City's new Arabic owners and 最終期限-day 調印 Robinho
The 最高の，を越す-flight club 長官
Everything was done with one 取引，協定 on 最終期限 day a few years ago, 支援する in the fax machine 時代. It was about to be 完全にするd, the fax was 存在 sent. Then a member of our 医療の team runs in and 叫び声をあげるs that there is a problem with the player's 医療の that needs アイロンをかけるing out.
So we had this 状況／情勢 where you're 現実に having to claw this piece of paper out of the fax machine to stop the 取引，協定 存在 完全にするd!
These days you're 戦う／戦いing with the TMS. Everything has to marry up, so you can find yourself chained to a desk throughout the day just inputting the 明確な／細部 詳細（に述べる）s.
If both ends are not 正確に／まさに the same the 移転 won't go through. It can be incredibly stressful, 特に when the 最終期限 ぼんやり現れるs and there are a couple of 移転s happening 同時に.
Fernando Torres joined Chelsea from 首相 League 競争相手s Liverpool?on January 31, 2011
Andy Carroll (left) was Torres' 交替／補充 and cost Liverpool a then 記録，記録的な／記録する 料金 of £35million
And another スパイ／執行官
One club 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 調印する more than 10 players in a day and, believe me here, there was an 出来事/事件 every five minutes. Failed 医療の, timekeeping, paperwork not getting done.
It is a proper 6am until midnight 職業. You need a charger at all times, answering one call when on another. It's like buying a house. One has to go before you can move.
We walked out of a club at 11.50pm not knowing whether a 取引，協定 had got over the line. We'd been relying on two other 移転s happening, that 支配 影響. You can sit there not knowing and things can be so 失望させるing. Something will happen to knock it off course. For the strangest of 推論する／理由s, too. Life-changing 移転s can hinge on someone 存在 stuck in traffic or not!
You can get there and he'll fail a 医療の. You feel dreadful for the player. They go 支援する to their club and it's difficult because it's been out that a 料金 has been agreed. いつかs the players don't get 受託するd 支援する by the fans.?
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