
Emergency Reinforcements: Free Agents Who Could Still Transform a Season
The transfer window may be closed, but that doesn’t mean clubs are out of options. Across Europe, managers are already nervously scanning the free-agent market for reinforcements—because injuries and thin squads don’t wait for January. We’ve seen before how decisive such signings can be. Just last summer, Barcelona swooped in to sign Polish goalkeeper Wojciech Szczęsny outside the window, solving a crisis between the posts. This year, there are once again some familiar names available for free