Transfer window deadline before the season starts?

[Robbo]

Premier League clubs will discuss the proposed introduction of a new summer transfer window that closes before the opening game of next season.

It is understood talks will take place between every club next month about whether to change the deadline of the current window, which closes nearly three weeks after the first game of the season.

Sky Sports News has been told by sources that the "majority" of top-flight clubs currently favour an earlier closure, and the issue could be voted on during their next shareholders' meeting in September.

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...sfer-deadline-forward-to-before-season-starts

Thoughts on this?

I'm not convinced it's a good idea. Other transfer windows will still be open around Europe and I think it's more likely to put us at a disadvantage, even if there are some benefits (like with the current Coutinho situation and previous De Gea situation a couple of seasons ago).

 

[Robbo]

What's most interesting about Utd and City voting against it is that, according to Oliver Kay anyway, both Mourinho and Guardiola were in favour of it closing before the season started.

I think that's because they wanted all the windows to shut at the same time, not just ours.

While there are some benefits in theory, it will mean a shorter, even more manic transfer window now.