São Paulo – The BuyMyPlayer website was launched this week in Dubai. The site allows football fans to raise funds for the transfer of players to the teams they support. The information was released by the Arabian Business website.
The functioning is simple. Someone submits a proposal for a given athlete to go to a certain team. Then, the website lists the amount of money people are willing to contribute to the transfer. As soon as the combined bids match the amount demanded by the team to sell the player, the site starts collecting actual money for the transaction. In case the value is not matched, the entire sum collected is returned to the participants.
Initially, the transactions would involve football players only, but the website plans on including other sports such as basketball, rugby and American football. The website is www.buymyplayer.com.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
