(to) Complete a move
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This week’s football phrase is ‘to complete a move‘, which means to sign a contract with a club, to move to another club.
This week saw the closing of the transfer window, the time when clubs buy, sell and loan players. Some players, however, can be sold in or out of the transfer window – they are free agents, they do not have a contract with a team. Liverpool loaned their big striker Andy Carroll to West Ham and failed to sign their target, Fulham attacking midfielder Clint Dempsey. There was talk of them wanting Italian and ex-Juventus star Del Piero, but the Italian completed a move to Sydney FC leaving the Reds short of attacking options. To complete a move
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