The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-03
SELLING SOCCER PLAYERS.
Are Transferred in England as Base
ball Players Are Sold Here.

Soccer football players in England are
held as securely by the clubs and asso-
Citations managing the game as are the
baseball players in this country, and, what
Is more, If reports are to be relied upon,
the players who are sold or transferred
from one team to another get nothing
from it themselves, no matter how big a
deal may be. The following London dis
patch tells OF a number of big deals in
football players that have been made Of
late:
Since the opening of the football season
the Chelsea Football Club, in pursuance Of
a policy of Improvement, has procured the
good will" Of four players more or less
celebrated in other Teams. The fees in
volved by the several transfers amount to
over $4,000.
The Chelsea Club has paid that amou
not for the services MfpqTffouf players.
but for the right to employ them. Previous
to January /, when a new rule went into
force restricting the maximum transfer
fee TO ESQ, clubs could pay and accept
any sum that could be agreed upon
mutually.
The approximate amounts expended by
Chelsea are $500 to Blackburn Rovers for
Cameron, a right fullback; ESQ to Ever
ton for Rouse. an inside right forward.
$3.50 to Middlesborough for Drawn, an out
side right forward, and e450 to Lincoln
City for F'airgay, an outside left forward.
High as these amounts are, they do not
reach the record. The transfer of G. VIII
son to Newcastle United has beaten all
records. $500 having been paid to Belfast
Distillery, with which club he was most
recently identified. and 1000 to Sverton,
which holds the English rights in his
football, making $1,000 in all. BY compart-
son, Fulham's e1,000 to Southampton for
the two forwards. Harrison and M%ouncher.
is trifling.
Middlesborough themselves paid Sunder-
land e1,0@ for Common, a forward wh3
had previously played for Sheffield United,
and to Derby County ego for the
record international Bloomer, a full-baclz.
being thrown into this latter transactions.
Manchester City, in acquiring" Ross, a
forward, paid Norwich City $500, and con
coded a friendly game, which produced
$500, or e1,1N in all.
Several questions arise out OF this foot
bali ,"merchandise." Among them, how
does it pay Il club to expend these amounts
and how much do the players get? The
clubs which pay huge transfer fees are
of course, those best supported. No club
has better encouragement than Chelsea,
which probably recovered tins 5000 out Of
The last two matches played at home.
In order to retain these players for coni-
'@-h-As ~ lfV-N1t 49, AASAT IhS ~ HAS,
mum fee (Which in this respect is the
minimum) of e2OS per annum- So long as
this salary is offered the player Is hi
property Of his club forever. He cannst
leave his club without sanction,
What does he get out Of it? Nothing.
That is the law. The player who involves
four-figure premiums is not a penny tho
better. The Football Association exercises
strict surveillance over the books Of Tvs
clubs. and malpractises, when discovered,
ore vigorously punished.
West Bronwich Albion also made some
big deals in footballers. They transferred
hdam Haywood to Blackpool, and reduicei
from them in return Overs, the Blackpooi
centre. who was last year with Leytom
Then The Albion gave Shinton. their cei-
tire, to Leicester Fosse, but secured N re-
turn the signature OF II. Wilcox, inside
left.