Transfer Deadline Day: How it works from the perspective of a manager, a player and an agent

Transfer deadline day has become a biannual staple of the football calendar. It is a day when the high-octane drama of a football match can be recreated without the action, and the same emotional highs and lows achieved.

But it can also be filled with upheaval and worry, changing real lives very quickly. So what is the day itself actually like? BBC Sport asked three people with three very different perspectives to find out.

Former Newcastle United manager, Alan Pardew

Alan Pardew admits 31 January 2011 «scarred» him. Less than two months into his reign as Newcastle United manager, he was confronted by something he'd hoped to avoid.

Liverpool and Tottenham had been bidding for 21-year-old England striker Andy Carroll throughout the day but, after the sale of Fernando Torres to Chelsea, the Reds needed a partner for another arrival, Luis Suarez, and came in with a huge offer of £35m.

Newcastle, who didn't appear in genuine danger of relegation, couldn't turn it down. But there was no time to react.

«We were adamant in the morning that Liverpool wouldn't get to a value we'd accept,» Pardew recalls. «Then I got a phone call to say a strong bid had come in, above Andy's market value.

»The board's decision was he was going to go and that was a massive blow to me because we didn't have time to replace him. We were only just good enough with him in the team. It was a really, really tough day."

Speculation over Carroll's future had intensified in the final week and Pardew admits there was a sense of unease within the club.

«The players and the staff were all aware of the situation. It adds a different tension,» adds Pardew. «We had nothing with Andy because it was so late in the day. We knew the player was adamant he wanted to go and