The January 2016 transfer window has seen plenty of players going out their way to try and force a move, but none more so than Dimitri Payet at West Ham United and Leonardo Ulloa at Leicester City.
Both players went on strike and refused to play for their clubs - Payet in order to force a move back to Marseille because his family had not settled in London, Ulloa simply to get a move anywhere for game time.
These extreme measures have been heavily criticised by sports journalists, pundits and even their team mates, but this is not just a modern fad born of the overpaid primadonna foreigner.