When the summer transfer window rolls around every year, football fans around the world spend countless hours discussing the best and the worst, the safest and the riskiest transfers of the season. This year is no different. For two weeks straight, the conversations on radio shows, tv shows and internet message boards have been relentlessly obsessing over the latest big name signings and what it means for the parties involved; will Falcao be worth his huge transfer fee at Monaco? Will André Schürrle find a natural position at Chelsea? Is £30M a justified price for Fernandinho, given that he’s 28 years old, plays in the Ukrainian league and only has 5 caps for Brazil? These are all legitimate questions. Fans are always concerned about the inherent risk that a transfer carries for both the clubs and the players involved, and even though we haven’t even reached the official opening of this summer’s transfer window on 1st July, we have already seen a great deal of high risk transfers. And while more has been said of Monaco’s spending splurge and Fernandinho’s arrival in Eastlands, it is the transfer of another new Manchester City player that is undoubtedly the riskiest of all of them; a transfer that has slightly gone under the radar considering its significance and the risk involved. I’m talking of course about Man City’s purchase of Sevilla’s Jesus Navas. The risk is not because Navas is a bad player. On the contrary, Man City?s squad will be greatly enriched by the presence of the Spanish winger. As a natural right sided player, he should be able to bring a directness and width to the Citizens attack that has been lacking in recent times. Nor is it because of his £14.9M transfer fee, which is actually very reasonable considering the calibre of player that Navas is and quite a bit less than I would have considered him to be worth on talent alone. What makes Navas’ transfer the riskiest of this summer is not a concern about Jesus Navas the football player, but Jesus Navas the man. Sometimes it is easy to forget that football players are not just the avatars we play with on FIFA and Football Manager. They are real people and, like you or me, they can and do have very real problems. They are not immune from the difficulties of the world by reason of their fame and skill. Believe it or not, these men, whom we raise to the point of near god-like reverence at times, are flawed. Jesus Navas has always been very open about his flaw; he suffers from home sickness, something that has been with him for his entire life. While you may question the legitimacy of a grown man suffering from home sickness, a condition ordinarily associated with children in summer camps and boarding schools, let me assure you that Navas’ problem is very real and very serious. At 27 years old, Navas is widely regarded as one of the best dribbling wingers in world football and has been for some time. However, the Spaniard has always been held back by his inability to leave his home town. Born and raised in Seville, the capital of Spain’s Andalucia province, Navas has spent his entire life in the beautiful Spanish city, and until last week had played his entire career for his local club despite regular interest from more accomplished teams in European football. The effect of his home sickness is sometimes so severe that he suffers from crippling anxiety and panic attacks that have often threatened to jeopardise his professional career. A number of years ago, the Sevilla winger suffered a bout of homesickness whilst in a training camp with the Sevilla squad in Huelva province in Spain. The attack was so severe that his father and brother had to drive out to collect him and take him home to Seville.