Transfer window deadline before the season starts?

It's been voted on and got through. 14 out of 20 clubs voted for it. Interestingly, the two biggest spenders, the Manchester clubs, voted against. Probably because they know they can use their money to force transfers through if players become unsettled after poor starts, like City tried to do with Alexis this year.

Personally I'm well in favour of it. This argument about foreign teams being able to buy should just be dealt with by the clubs enforcing an internal deadline matching up the English deadline. Players should just be told no one goes out anywhere after the English deadline.
 
robfosters said:
It's been voted on and got through. 14 out of 20 clubs voted for it. Interestingly, the two biggest spenders, the Manchester clubs, voted against. Probably because they know they can use their money to force transfers through if players become unsettled after poor starts, like City tried to do with Alexis this year.

Personally I'm well in favour of it. This argument about foreign teams being able to buy should just be dealt with by the clubs enforcing an internal deadline matching up the English deadline. Players should just be told no one goes out anywhere after the English deadline.
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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 still think it should have been better the window was closed entirely on the same day

Shamikebab said:
Selling part open is nothing to do with us. You can sell players at any point in the year. It's registering them. You can't stop a club from selling a player.
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Highly unlikely A N Other club is going to agree to buy a player without being able to register him though (ie commiting to pay his wages when he cant play for upto 6 months)
 
BaZ87 said:
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.
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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.
 
FrankJH said:
Highly unlikely A N Other club is going to agree to buy a player without being able to register him though (ie commiting to pay his wages when he cant play for upto 6 months)
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By that I meant we can't stop Spanish clubs buying players if their window for registration closes 3 weeks after ours.
 
Robbo said:
While there are some benefits in theory, it will mean a shorter, even more manic transfer window now.
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It won't make any difference. As I mentioned before, deals don't take months to complete and the only reason why they drag on is because clubs use deadline day as part of the negotiation. All the deals that happen in the last week of August will just happen the week before the season kicks off.
 
Shamikebab said:
By that I meant we can't stop Spanish clubs buying players if their window for registration closes 3 weeks after ours.
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Isn't that the way it is currently though? A lot of other leagues close their window after ours at the moment so *could* still buy PL club' players. But it's very rare they do.
 
Marvt74 said:
Isn't that the way it is currently though? A lot of other leagues close their window after ours at the moment so *could* still buy PL club' players. But it's very rare they do.
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Yes, however these other leagues aren't the direct competition for PL clubs.
 
Marvt74 said:
Isn't that the way it is currently though? A lot of other leagues close their window after ours at the moment so *could* still buy PL club' players. But it's very rare they do.
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The gap is pretty small at the moment. This change would see it move to weeks which might be significant.
 
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