What changed ·
The sentence on the club’s website: how a contract date gets its source
A fact about a player is worth what its source is worth. So we keep the source with the fact, down to the sentence.
A draft, for the owner’s approval. Each note is published once they have read it.
The question every agent asks about a player they do not represent is simple: when does the contract end? The answer is scattered across club websites, federation lists and press releases, at very different levels of trust, and it changes.
What we built
A small engine reads club websites and keeps what it finds in three layers. The page, with a copy of it as it was that day. The claim: one fact, such as a contract end, with the sentence it was read from. And the decision: when two sources disagree, which one we use, and why.
Each claim carries a trust level, from the club’s own site at the top down to a repost on a forum. A fact from the club outranks a fact from the press; two facts from the press that agree outrank one that stands alone. Disputes are kept, side by side, rather than hidden.
The first run
The first run read the official sites of three Spanish clubs across the second, third and fourth tiers. It found contract extensions, loans, signings and departures, each with its sentence. Some sites say a lot; some say very little; one changed its layout halfway through, which is why we keep a copy of every page.
Why it matters
The record an agency works from should be checkable. When Eskuadra shows a contract end, the agent should be able to click through to the sentence on the club’s site that says so, and the next run should be able to go back to the same page and see whether it changed. That is the difference between a database and a record you can stand behind.
Where it is today
The engine runs, and the facts it finds are reviewed by our staff before they are used. Showing a fact and its source on the player page, to the agencies, comes next.
What this note leaves for another day
This note is about contract facts from public websites. What a club says in a request, and what an agent records about their own player, stay the agency’s and come from the agency.