Transfer windows Pre-2000s

[Parkinthebeast]

Hi all new here but wanted to ask a fresh question to some of the more experienced folk. What where transfer windows like in the old days with out all the news hype what where the equivalent tactics back in the day?

 

[SF]

There weren't any.

You could sign players at any point during the season I think.

 

[paddysr]

There weren't any.

You could sign players at any point during the season I think.

Think the cut off was about 6 weeks before the end of the season wasn't it?

 

[SF]

Think the cut off was about 6 weeks before the end of the season wasn't it?

Can't really remember.

It was kind of nice though, you knew North End had signed someone when you looked at the back of the LEP, or it popped up on Teletext.

 

[Parkinthebeast]

There weren't any.

You could sign players at any point during the season I think.

Shitting hell couldn't cope.

Can't really remember.

It was kind of nice though, you knew North End had signed someone when you looked at the back of the LEP, or it popped up on Teletext.

Not like nowadays where he signed 10 times with 10 figures and then actually signs for someone else

 

[Retfordpete]

There was a cut off in March but otherwise you could sign or loan players whenever. You didn’t get the frenzy of the windows.

 

[Parkinthebeast]

There was a cut off in March but otherwise you could sign or loan players whenever. You didn’t get the frenzy of the windows.

Add a deadline and a yellow tie you get this americanised circus of 2020

 

[Preston Lad]

Think the cut off was about 6 weeks before the end of the season wasn't it?

Yeah, sometime in March it used to be.

 

[tuffley white]

Didn’t we sign Brett angell in one of the March transfers who helped us gain promotion was it in 2000. His experience and goals played a key part.

 

[Hurlock. T]

The old transfer deadline day involved watching pages and pages of ceefax for hours to the point that you’d seen every transfer so many times you could reel every one off next day.

 

[pne4ever]

Before the Bosman ruling players could not leave their club even when their contract ran out. If they were transferred they received a proportion of the transfer fee by way of compensation. On retirement a lot of them got a testimonial match as a way of a golden handshake

 

[pnewortham]

The old transfer deadline day involved watching pages and pages of ceefax for hours to the point that you’d seen every transfer so many times you could reel every one off next day.

Booked many a happy holiday off here!

 

[Preston Lad]

Didn’t we sign Brett angell in one of the March transfers who helped us gain promotion was it in 2000. His experience and goals played a key part.

Yes we did.

He scored some important goals.

 

[No Danger]

Didn’t we sign Brett angell in one of the March transfers who helped us gain promotion was it in 2000. His experience and goals played a key part.

Got a very respectable 95 points that season to be runaway champions. Burnley were runners up with 88 points.
Ian Wright played a few games for Burnley without being as successful as Brett. A good season for both clubs.

 

[From91]

Before the Bosman ruling players could not leave their club even when their contract ran out. If they were transferred they received a proportion of the transfer fee by way of compensation. On retirement a lot of them got a testimonial match as a way of a golden handshake

It’s mental really thinking about players not having freedom of movement, the clubs really did own them. Was this unique to football or did other sports/businesses get away with keeping their best assets even if they wanted out?

 

[Pilot]

Hi all new here but wanted to ask a fresh question to some of the more experienced folk. What where transfer windows like in the old days with out all the news hype what where the equivalent tactics back in the day?

Players tended to stay at a club for much longer and squads were smaller so transfers weren’t as common as they are now. When Tommy Doc signed four new players at once it was a bit of a sensation, nowadays clubs sign a dozen players in a window and nobody bats an eyelid.

 

[Px6]

Add a deadline and a yellow tie you get this americanised circus of 2020

Actually American sports has a system pretty much the same as our old system. You can ‘trade’ a player until a cut of date so many weeks before the end. No buying players (creates a fairer league)

I think you can sign a free agent at any time.

The current transfer windows are very much our own doing. Letting the tv company’s run havoc. It’s so stupid it’s hard to believe we still do it.

 

[HeyshamWhite]

Remember being chuffed when we signed Colin Greenall on deadline, and for a fee. Think he was our only signing all year. The nearest you got to the constant media hype of today was refreshing teletext every so often

 

[Parkinthebeast]

Actually American sports has a system pretty much the same as our old system. You can ‘trade’ a player until a cut of date so many weeks before the end. No buying players (creates a fairer league)

I think you can sign a free agent at any time.

The current transfer windows are very much our own doing. Letting the tv company’s run havoc. It’s so stupid it’s hard to believe we still do it.

I know they do my reference to americanised is in terms of the draft. Its a big event it builds up for weeks until we get down to deadline day.

Everything is a show in yankyland

 

[northender2]

ceefax and radio lancs/5 live were where oyu had to get your news
I'm pretty sure the deadline was usually the 2nd or 3rd Thursday in March, was always a Thursday because players had to be registered 48 hours before the game and back then, almost everyone played on a Saturday at 3pm