The Neymar Effect : A fantasy future based on the world’s record transfer fee

Neymar posing with in his new PSG kit at the Parc de Princes. Photo: Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images Europe

Neymar’s world record transfer is sure to have a ripple effect on football for years to come.

However, if one were to speculate and build a fantasy world, what domino effect would this transfer really have on Europe’s top leagues?

For a select number of clubs, we can only imagine….

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The Transfer Window

Real Madrid have noticed that Barcelona has just been weakened and push to sign

The Transfer Window : A Necessary Evil

The most expensive signing in history on transfer deadline day 2013. What a relief!

 This article originally appeared on atwookigaucho.blogspot.se on the 5th of June 2013. With the January transfer window causing its usual madness, we thought we would reblogg it.

The only certainty that remains in the transfer window is that everything is uncertain until officially confirmed.

That is the basis upon which this obsession is founded. The transfer window exists, or rather now exists, to keep us pre-occupied while the football season goes into the lull of pre-season, or the pause of mid-season. Something has to give, and it has evolved from a meaningful idea into a means for our entertainment.

To think that prior to

Cesc Fabregas: To leave or not to leave?

Cesc Fabregas

For a while, Xavi Hernandez seriously considered joining Manchester United.

He was just breaking through from the youth ranks at Barcelona and into the first team and though he was being touted as the next best thing, he had one problem. Pep Guardiola was still ahead of him in the pecking order. The then Barcelona captain commanded the midfield with orchestral fashion. Guardiola had been injured when Xavi had made a name for himself but the Catalan idol, while acknowledging the prodigious talents of the dimunitive Xavi, had promised to make life hard for him to get into the first team. Guardiola had