Football needs its whistle blowers

Whatever you think of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, the world needs whistleblowers and leakers.

Football needs its whistle blowers

For the past six months, football has had its own source of confidential information, still anonymous as yet, but styling itself as Football Leaks and gradually releasing a stream of documents on the internet.

Their latest disclosure yesterday gives the terms of the Luis Suarez transfer from Liverpool to Barcelona and follows other recent leaks about transfer deals, mostly obscure, but some of them very big — such as Sergio Aguero’s move to Manchester City from Atletico Madrid.

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