The New Transfer Window Deadline Date (and how to get around the rule)

Although I’m not a massive fan of loans, the ‘try before you buy’ option where you can loan in until 31 Aug with a Jan purchase option sounds good, assuming you arrange the fee in advance of Jan.

If the player is a world beater, happy days; if not, he can be merrily sent back to his club.

But in the main, in true FIFA/UEFA fashion, the rules are still a mess :arrghh:
 
And I'd ban transfer windows and go back to buying and selling all year long.
Afterall the idea of transfer windows is nothing to do with football and everything to do with Sky having something to fill up their programme spots during the off-season.
 
Well, the transfer window definitely increases the preposterous fees these days. All this panic buying in the last few hours of the window, it's ridiculous.

The old argument for the window - to prevent clubs unsettling/poaching their rivals' best players during the season - is now moot imho, with access to players from all over the world making it pretty irrelevant.
 
sirdennis said:
Wasn't there a transfer deadline under the old system anyway. I think it was the end of March from memory
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I believe you are correct. I remember the teams competing for the title would always splurge on a player or two to get them over the line. The dippers did it to great effect with Ronny “the miss” Rosenthal. We did it to far lesser effect when we bought the wrong striker from Millwall and blew our title chance in 89-90.... :shake::shake::shake:
 
Even in Boys football, you couldn't sign a player after a certain date. That was back in the early to mid 90's when I used to run a side.
 
1958Villan said:
And I'd ban transfer windows and go back to buying and selling all year long.
Afterall the idea of transfer windows is nothing to do with football and everything to do with Sky having something to fill up their programme spots during the off-season.
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Don’t agree at all. The decision to reduce the transfer window period was because of unsettling the team once the season had already started so having the possibility that at any time another club could come in and buy one of our best players at any point in the season doesn’t solve that issue at all
 
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