Football Transfer Window
Explaining the Football Transfer Window Welcome to the Chris Farnell IPS Law blog. Farnell is a noted sports lawyer, who represents a range of celebrity and high profile clients in a range of sports. He owns IPS Law, a sports law firm based in Tring. Sports, Media & Entertainment. He specialises in image rights, third party ownership issues, player transfers, intellectual property contracts, contract re-negotiations, sponsorship and endorsement contracts, defamation, sports dispute resolution, footballer and agent disputes, doping hearings, regulatory issues, and both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property law. In this article we will cover the football transfer window and what it is. Football transfers are when a player moves from one club to another. During a European football season (running from the end of August until May the following year) there are two windows in which a team can buy and sell players. The first of these windows runs throughout the ‘...