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The Transfer Window

The Transfer Window

Presumably, the point of it is to stop transfer sagas taking place during the vast majority of the season.

However, it fails to do this in both August and January.

I think it should definitely be shut before the season starts as is being proposed. They should also consider shortening the January window. It doesn't need to last a whole month as most clubs leave it late anyway.

End of the season - eve of start of new season for the summer windows. 2 weeks in Jan to do business.
 
sedgwick__7 said:
I think it should definitely be shut before the season starts as is being proposed. They should also consider shortening the January window. It doesn't need to last a whole month as most clubs leave it late anyway.
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I agree, but it needs to be aligned, at least across Europe. And it doesn't need to be the same date every year. Not sure why it has to be the end of August, it's been open for weeks already.

A date can be decided each year which will be a week or so before the start of the first league season started. Having it close the day before the first game would actually be worse than the situation now.
 
So which date will they pick, the start of the championship season or the Premiership one? Or the Scottish one or the Spanish one?
For me we let the Premiership clubs do the business and a week later shut the window.
 
I was in a large Cash and Carry many years ago, and saw them position a pallet of salt bags in the entrance, customers came in and walked past it, no one bought any. About 20 minutes later a member of staff put a large notice in front of it saying ' Two bags of salt per customer only'. From then on everyone passing it put 2 bags on their truck, some even tried hiding more.

The question is does the transfer window actually encourage player movement, the last day is normally insane with panic moves.

Would we be better without it and return to the ban on transfers for the final part of the season only.
 
And this player loan system, seems to have mushroomed amazingly.

But I think clubs should not be able to loan players to clubs in the same division because that player is not allowed to play against his parent club, so the striker Wolves loaned to Burton, and who scored against Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday, won't be allowed to play against Wolves therefore weakening the Burton team.
 
mozzchops said:
So which date will they pick, the start of the championship season or the Premiership one? Or the Scottish one or the Spanish one?
For me we let the Premiership clubs do the business and a week later shut the window.
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June 1st - July 31st.

All English seasons start in August.

2 months is more than ample time to sort your squad out.
 
europne said:
I was in a large Cash and Carry many years ago, and saw them position a pallet of salt bags in the entrance, customers came in and walked past it, no one bought any. About 20 minutes later a member of staff put a large notice in front of it saying ' Two bags of salt per customer only'. From then on everyone passing it put 2 bags on their truck, some even tried hiding more.
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You're suggesting we get two bags for Pringle?
 
europne said:
And this player loan system, seems to have mushroomed amazingly.

But I think clubs should not be able to loan players to clubs in the same division because that player is not allowed to play against his parent club, so the striker Wolves loaned to Burton, and who scored against Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday, won't be allowed to play against Wolves therefore weakening the Burton team.
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Right, but then that means Burton can't loan that striker from Wolves in the first place which weakens their team for the whole season. What if Burton can't get a striker on loan from another team who has previous experience in the championship. That would have also meant we couldn't have loaned reach a few seasons ago. The only thing wrong with the loan system is that they have got rid of emergency loans, which helped teams throughout the season particularly those with a weaker squad.
 
Surely it was brought in to stop clubs buying players to strengthen their teams to help assist teams in promotion pushes/relegation battles. Loan players were only intended to be used in emergencies when first introduced but have now become a mockery
 
europne said:
I was in a large Cash and Carry many years ago, and saw them position a pallet of salt bags in the entrance, customers came in and walked past it, no one bought any. About 20 minutes later a member of staff put a large notice in front of it saying ' Two bags of salt per customer only'. From then on everyone passing it put 2 bags on their truck, some even tried hiding more.
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For Sale: Doyle, Pringle , Grimshaw. Clubs may take a maximum of 2 players only. Think that will shift em?
 
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