The football transfer period is a period of strong speculation, lots of rumors and unlimited guessing on how footballers are going to move around the clubs, where they are going to be in the upcoming season, how much will the club pay for registering new signings and so on. By now we are all accustomed to terms like loans, fees and free agents, even though they have nothing to do with the sport per se. With the growth of the internet and social media, we as fans now have access to information that we could never even think of in the past and so issues and aspects that were never out of the shadows before, are now not only right in front of us, but they actually bother us as well.
Football transfers are one such thing. In the past, the whereabouts of football players and their potential destinations could hardly ever reach us, but in the last few years, we are right in the center of the action, we have information, we form our own opinions, we make predictions and of course we bet on these predictions. German bookmakers – as well as sportsbooks in all over the world where football is highly popular – give us the opportunity to choose from a relatively wide range of football specials and enable us to wager on the whereabouts and the future movements of our favorite players.
There is no doubt that betting on football transfers has become extremely popular lately. This becomes quite evident from a number of issues including the growing volume of bets on football specials and the growing number of betting markets offered by online betting sites.
When betting on football transfers, you essentially wager on things like whether a footballer will move to a new club or stay with his current squad, where is a player going to go in the next transfer window (if he does so), which league or even which specific club will manage to sign a highly popular midfielder or attacker and so on. These are the basic types of bets for football transfers, although you may find many more out there.
What has prompted interest in football transfer betting?
Betting on transfer windows or generally on football transfers is fuelled by two main factors.
Social media
All around the globe, social media have penetrated our lives and have become dominant vehicles of communication. Literally everybody can have access to others and interact with them or simply ‘consume’ their content.
Football players, clubs, leagues, media and fans – all part of the ecosystem – are in social media today. Punters get to see their all-time-favorite football stars on social networks, follow them and get info from their own posts for their whereabouts when it comes to their next club. Often, players or clubs themselves disclose information to stimulate speculation and all this creates a ‘fuzz’ which triggers forecasts and predictions.
Market Value
The second issue that drives football transfers’ popularity in betting is the mere fact that nowadays we have full access to information about players’ market values, how much they are worth, how much clubs need to pay to register them, how much their value has risen (or fallen) lately and generally we get to learn things that for some reason trigger our interest.
We have access to clubs’ financials, we know about clubs’ financial capacity, we get to learn about managers’ styles and so we like to make match-ups in our minds. We also have access to info about clubs’ needs and requirements, as well as wants when it comes to footballers and at the same time we have access to info about players’ expiring contracts and as such we make predictions. In fact we have access to information regarding both sides and we like to speculate.
As a matter of fact we want to be part of the dynamic football transfer market and we can do so by betting on the changes, the transfers, the fees, the registering clubs and everything that surrounds the potential movement of footballers either during the transfer window or in the next transfer period.