Club Requests

What a club request is

One request = one club looking for one type of player.

Genoa want a left-footed centre back, 22–27, international, up to €2m, summer window. That's a request. A club chasing three positions is three requests, so each one can be worked and tracked separately.

As soon as you save it, Athlivo links the players from your roster who fit the brief.

Adding a request

Choose Add Request and work through four short steps.

1. 01

   Club & window

   Which club is asking, whether it's the summer or winter window, and how urgent it is — High, Medium or Low priority.

2. 02

   Player profile

   The brief itself: position, age range, preferred foot and player origin.

3. 03

   Deal & budget

   The deal types they'd consider, their transfer and wage budgets, and the currency those are in.

4. 04

   Notes & contact

   Free-text notes, the contact at the club this came from, and the colleagues you want assigned to work it. Assigned users get notified.

The player profile step is the brief itself:

• Position — one detailed position (centre back, defensive midfielder, striker, and so on)
• Age range — minimum and maximum
• Preferred foot — left, right, or any
• Player origin — domestic, international, or any. Domestic means the same nationality as the club's country; international means anything else

Deal & budget covers the commercial side:

• Deal types they'd consider — free transfer, loan, loan with option, permanent transfer. Pick as many as apply
• Transfer budget — a minimum, a maximum, or both
• Wage budget — a range, set monthly or yearly
• Currency — EUR, USD, GBP or CAD

Leave anything you don't know blank. A request with only a position and an age range is still useful, and you can fill in the rest later.

How matching works

Athlivo automatically links players from your roster to a request on three criteria:

• Position group — a request for a centre back matches your defenders
• Age — inside the range you set
• Origin — domestic or international, measured against the club's country

Matched players are split into two groups:

Exact matches

The player's detailed position is precisely what was asked for. A request for a winger treats both right and left wingers as exact.

Loose matches

The right position group, but a different detailed role — a centre back showing under a request for a right back.

Loose matches are shown deliberately. The player who solves the brief often isn't the literal job title.

Matching stays current by itself. Add a player, or change their position, age or nationality, and their links are recalculated — they'll appear on requests they now fit and drop off ones they no longer do.

The requests table

Every request your agency has recorded, in one table.

Columns. Club, position, window, notes, matched players, transfer budget, wage budget, deal types, age range, origin, foot, assigned, and last updated. Sort by any of them.

Editing in place. Most fields change directly in the table — club, position, window, priority, budgets, deal types, age range, origin, foot, assignees and notes. No need to reopen the form.

Search by club or position at any time, and filter by:

• Status — active or archived
• Position — broad groups or detailed positions
• Transfer window
• Priority
• Player origin
• Deal type
• Club country
• Assignee, including unassigned

Doing several at once. Select requests and:

Archive or restore

Move them out of your active view, or bring them back.

Export to PDF

Turn the selection into a document you can send or print — see Exporting to PDF below.

Delete

Remove them permanently.

Exporting to PDF

Sometimes you need the requests on paper — a window summary for a partner agency, something to take into a meeting, or a record for your own files.

1. 01

   Select the requests

   Tick the requests you want. Filter and search first if you're after a particular window, position or club country — you can then select what's in front of you.

2. 02

   Choose the columns

   Pick exactly which columns the document carries. Anything you leave out never reaches the file.

3. 03

   Share or save

   Generate the PDF, then send it on or keep it.

Working a request

Open a request to see the brief and its matched players side by side.

Pitching a player. From the matched list, choose a player and either:

Shortlist them

You're considering them for this club.

Pitch them

You've actually put them forward. Attach the contact you pitched to and a note about how it went.

Each pitch then carries a status you keep updated:

Pitches show on the player's own profile too, under Deals, so you can see every club a player has been put to without opening each request.

Turning matches into a shared list. Select several matched players and add them to a list. From there you can send the club a share link showing exactly those players — see Lists & Share Links.

Notes, contacts and assignees. Each request keeps its own notes, the contacts at the club it relates to, and the colleagues assigned to it.

Archiving and deleting

Archive a request when it's done — filled, withdrawn, or the window closed. It disappears from your active view but keeps its full history, and you can restore it at any time. This is what you want in almost every case.

Delete removes it permanently, along with everything attached.

Two protections apply once you've pitched a player to a request:

• It can't be deleted. You'd be destroying the record of what you pitched and what the club said. Archive it instead.
• The brief locks. The criteria stop being editable, so the request stays a true record of what you actually pitched against.

Notifications

You'll be told when:

• A new club request is created
• A request is assigned to you
• A player is pitched to a request you're working on

Manage these in Settings → Notifications.

Your request limit

Over the limit, nothing is deleted — the oldest requests stay accessible and the rest are locked until you upgrade or remove some.

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