Free Agents Week: Searching for global OOC players who get a UK work permit
We have been busy at The GBE Expert Hub, not only have we welcomed a new life into the world at GBEEH HQ, but we have taken the time to filter through our initial 2025 contract expiry lists on 1st July 2025 so see who had either signed new deals or who had earned moves directly at the end of their contract.
For interest, this is the group of players that we identified in the initial list who have got moves on a pre-contract deal:
There is no way of knowing how long before or after our initial list was put up as to when these players got their new contracts, but I think it would’ve been useful information to have.
Indeed, one of the buyers of the initial list told me that it was very useful and that they had generated a lot more leads from it.
From looking at the destinations of the players that got moves, there are very few, if any, who wouldn’t have made a difference at one level of English or Scottish football. Whether the finances worked out or not is an unknown, but there could have been opportunities on some of these players for no transfer fee.
However, there are now 24 players from the initial list who are now free agents or non-contracted players who are, as far as we are aware, now available for free. All of them get either GBE (6 of them) or ESC (remaining 18) and each of them has at least one role ranked in the top ten of their current domestic league, so we know that they have some ability.
That list is currently available to buy through this link, and, it goes without saying that the quicker that this is acted on the more vaulable the list is.
https://buy.stripe.com/00w14ncrNdFtdBC1CX7EQ00
We, at The GBE Expert Hub, are trying to go through and watch as many of the 24 as we can as well. Some will go out to paid subscribers as content, some this week, some, potentially further down the line, and, as always, we run the risk of these players getting moves or being deep in negotiations, we think that there is value in getting these names out there.
If you are an agent who has a player who you think would benefit from this kind of spotlight as well, please get in touch with us.
Enjoy the content this week and be aware that there is much more analysis to come over the summer.