Unrivalled Market Intelligence

Data is crucial in modern football if clubs and agencies want to get ahead of their competition and stay there when they get to the top.

And it’s also crucial if they want to maximise the world of opportunities available in the global transfer market.

Football clubs have been transitioning away from word of mouth and subjective transfer decisions for a long time, with huge value now placed on the underlying numbers and data intelligence to uncover bigger and better transfer opportunities. And to optimise the way they work on and off the pitch.  

But the shift to a data-led strategy has been slower in the football agency world.

Data plays a big role in larger firms, due to having the resources to invest in intelligence tooling. But for small to medium-sized agencies, this is often not the case. They often don’t have a dedicated team of analysts who can provide the kind of transfer window insights that help with planning a player’s career path. 

At TransferRoom, we can see the difference in how successful an agency’s pitch for a player iss between agents who leverage data effectively and those that don’t.

So we’ve made it one of our key objectives to develop a comprehensive intelligence suite to support agencies of all sizes and make TransferRoom the go-to place for data-led transfer business, unrivalled market intelligence and global networking.

New on TransferRoom: Predicted Requirements

In early 2025, we launched Predicted Requirements, one of the first predictive models for agents. 

It is built to anticipate the needs of clubs and match these anticipated transfer requirements with your player portfolio to find new and unique opportunities to get ahead of the competition. 

But there is so much more we can do around Intelligence for Agents.

New on TransferRoom: IntelligenceRoom

IntelligenceRoom is a new hub within the TransferRoom platform, built for agents who want to stay ahead, spot opportunities and make smarter deals happen faster. Every data point is designed to give you an edge in the market and reduce the manual barriers that exist when trying to find these data points elsewhere. 

IntelligenceRoom is an evolving hub, so over time we’ll add more datasets and evolve the existing ones depending on how our customers use them. 

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For now, we have seven core datasets. They are as follows.

Agency Influence Index

What is it?

The Agency Influence Index is a way of understanding the influence or soft power that an agency has with any club in the world. 

The index score is based on several factors including their player representation from that club and transfer history. 

Why is it valuable?

• Intermediation of Deals: To help agents understand the complex relationship dynamics between club and agents and evaluate who they may need to involve in certain deals to make them happen.
• Showcase influence to attract players: If you can validate your agency's influence with key clubs, players have a higher probability of wanting to work with you if they’re interested in joining those clubs. 

Salary Benchmarking

What is it?

Salary benchmarking is a way of understanding the median salary bandings for any league around the globe and comparing a player in your agency portfolio. 

The benchmark will indicate where your player would likely fit within that league, in terms of league position, squad role, estimated take-home salary. 

The benchmarks are based on several factors including the wealth of the league, club, players position, our Expected Transfer Value (xTV) data and more.

Why is it valuable?

• Improve negotiating position: Agents have a stronger bargaining position because they can see whether they’re getting a good or bad deal when it comes to player salary negotiation and benchmark against trusted data.
• Planning career moves: As this data is not readily available to most agencies, our customers can now select any player in their portfolio and make a comparison over potential squad role, playing time, gross salary and take home salary to ensure you find the right opportunities that bring short-term revenue with long-term player development. 

Net Salary Calculator

What is it?

This calculator allows you to compare actual take home after tax across countries globally, helping to identify the true value for your players when facilitating moves to other regions. 

Why is it valuable?

• Avoid any negative surprises: If you’ve negotiated a fantastic deal for one of your players in terms of net salary but when they finally get paid it’s reduced by 60%.. They’re going to be incredibly underwhelmed and this may negatively impact their motivation. 
  
• Compare actual take home: By evaluating multiple regions in advance and the actual take home amounts, you can potentially agree on a lower net salary in a low tax country, lowering both expectations on the player while still earning them a high take home. 

 
Club Staff Tracker

What is it?

We have a unique position in the transfer market when it comes to tracking the moves of players and staff.

This newsfeed allows you to track when backroom staff across nine different roles either join or leave a club in real time. 

Why is it valuable?

• Network moves: When a contact you have a relationship with moves to a new club, this creates a new opportunity to speak with that club.
• New vacancies for Head Coaches: If you represent Head Coaches, this is a great way to find potential leads to place your Head Coach clients in and gain a better understanding of club interest.

Agency Tracker

What is it?

PlayerMarket by TransferRoom helps to build trust and transparency into the representation of players by agents. As such, we can verify the representation of players and build that into a newsfeed for our customers.

Why is it valuable?

• Keep track of player moves: See when players are signed by agencies and understand who the true representative for them is and ensure you only work on attracting free agent players. 

League Registration Rules

What is it?

A consolidated view of which players can sign for each league or club and what their unique playing conditions are to qualify for a visa, for example.

It breaks down what the complications are when pitching players to each league and potentially understands the pros and cons of moves.

For example, in Spain you can only register up to 3 non-EU players in your 25-man squad, so understanding this and evaluating if there is space in the squad is key to the overall success of a potential player pitch. 

Why is it valuable?

• Identify best fit leagues: See where each of your players currently qualify and, when paired with salary benchmarking, you can build a data-led list of the best leagues for return on investment for each of your players.
• Strategic relationships: By understanding which leagues are most accessible to your players, you can prioritise building up relationships with key stakeholders in those leagues.

Transfer Window Tracker

What is it?

A breakdown of global transfer windows and the associated details on when they open and close, plus any restrictions around these windows to help you navigate global markets without delay. 

Why is it valuable?

• Plan transfers strategically: Identify which windows are open at any point and pivot your interests to those leagues when looking at players moves. 

IntelligenceRoom is designed to centralise all of these data points, removing the blockers of not having enough time, lack of benchmarks and giving every agency an opportunity to take a data-first approach to planning the careers of each player in their portfolio.

To find out more on these use cases, book time with our team now.

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