Slovenian club Domzale have broken new grounds in
the way football transfers are conducted, with the news that they used LinkedIn
to sign defender Alvaro Brachi during the Winter transfer window.
The club’s coach Luka Elsner posted a message on
the career networking website advertising a vacancy for a “very offensive
right-back”.
This evoked numerous responses, out of which
Brachi was brought in on a permanent deal following a trial shortly ahead of
the deadline.
Alvaro Brachi was signed via LinkedIn. Image: Goal
“NK Domzale only has a small budget, we do not
have the money to buy the biggest player,” the club’s public relations officer Grega
Krmavnar told BBC Sport.
“We needed a replacement and could not find one in
Slovenia and had no other choice of players. LinkedIn was just an idea from our
head coach Luka Elsner, so we decided it would be a good way, so Elsner decided
to post it on the site on his profile.
“We watched footage of the best candidates and
analysed them. Brachi was the best candidate and we decided to invite him to
Slovenia to train with us on a one-week trial and then signed him.
“We needed a player who was out of contract or
wanted a change of environment and we think have found a very quality player. I
believe we are the first club to find a player in this way.”
However, Domzale weren’t the only club to harness
modern communication to recruit a player in a transfer window, as Belenenses
used WhatsApp to conduct negotiations to bring Abel Aguilar to the club from
Toulouse – where he had failed to make a Ligue 1 appearance this season.
“The player’s agent was in London and the
negotiations were all done through WhatsApp messages,” Soares told Diario de
Noticias. “We said what we could offer and they accepted immediately.
Talk about the global game in a global village.
Source: Goal
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