Transfer Window to Close BEFORE Start of Season

[Numero Veinticinco]

Premier League clubs have voted to close next summer's transfer window before the season starts.

 

Managers have complained that the ability for players to move when the season is under way causes disruption to their squads and preparations.

 

From next season, the window will close at 17:00 BST on the Thursday before the Premier League season begins.

 

The decision was not unanimous and does not impact upon the length of the window in the Football League.

 

But the move means Premier League clubs will not be able to sign or sell players when their season is under way, while other European leagues will continue to allow such movement until 31 August.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41188235

[Funkasy]

Good

[Razoray]

Before start of season surely?

[Thoth]

First game of the season moved to the 1st of Sept by Jim White and Sky no doubt on the cards

[dickie mint]

Did FSG vote to not open it at all.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Is it closing before the start of the season, or slamming shut?

[Lee909]

Stupidist idea yet

 

So the other clubs round Europe can push the pressure on to get players to leave and you cant replace them. Then they push prices up for English clubs before going back to normal fees after.

[Anubis]

Before start of season surely?

He's fucked it up.

[Pureblood]

He's fucked it up.

 

It's still technically true.

[Anubis]

It's still technically true.

Argued like a lawyer...

[lifetime fan]

Stupidist idea yet

 

So the other clubs round Europe can push the pressure on to get players to leave and you cant replace them. Then they push prices up for English clubs before going back to normal fees after.

And to start it in a World Cup year.

 

Fucking idiots.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Ah, I fucked this up, Dell Boy.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Stupidist idea yet

 

So the other clubs round Europe can push the pressure on to get players to leave and you cant replace them. Then they push prices up for English clubs before going back to normal fees after.

This is my fear. It seems a superb idea if everybody in Europe had to do it. But they don't. So it ain't.

[Kevin D]

It's still technically true.

That's the best kind of true.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

I have used the powers bestowed upon me by the House of Usher to fix the topic name!

 

This is a bit of a toothless move really, I like it in principle but if the big European hitters don't move to the same day it's all moot and we'll still have the likes of Barcelona knocking on the door. The problem as well is that if they adopt the same rule their seasons will still start later than ours because they play less games.

 

Meanwhile, in Boston there will be glee - that's 3 weeks less pressure to spend money and show some ambition.

[Thoth]

It says sign or sell players so the foreign clubs couldn't buy off the Prem teams after the deadline, still a fucking stupid idea for one league to do it.. and in a World Cup year

[Dan Vito Corleone]

It says sign or sell players so the foreign clubs couldn't buy off the Prem teams after the deadline, still a fucking stupid idea for one league to do it.. and in a World Cup year

 

That's not my understanding of it:

 

The vote was not unanimous and clubs will still be able to sell players until the end of the normal window.

 

The window across Europe runs until 31 August. The Premier League's move means that while clubs will be able to sell until that date, buying activity will cease on 9 August for the 2018-19 season.

 

European leagues will still be able to buy and sell until 31 August, while the Football League's window also remains unaltered.

 

You can sell, you just can't buy.

[Trumo]

I think a better solution is for the summer transfer window to be implemented Europe-wide by UEFA for the month of July only. In the case of those summers with a World Cup or European Championship (where the tournament finishes in the first couple of weeks of July), the window should continue until 14th August so there's a whole 2 weeks regardless of what day 14th August falls on.

 

If 31st July or 14th August falls on a Sunday, then as long as clubs have fulfilled the necessary paperwork to confirm a deal on FIFA's Transfer Matching System (the system that ALL transfers have to be verified on, via the clubs' relevant FAs), they can complete the rest of the formalities (banking aspects, medicals etc) by 11pm on the following Monday night. If any parties try to change the terms of the deal after sending the initial agreement to the relevant FA and subsequently FIFA, then the deal becomes null and void.

 

The above isn't without its flaws but I think it provides the right amount of strict control as well as leeway.

[The Guest]

It's not completely as daft as it sounds. A lot of these European clubs are very happy to sell to English clubs obviously because of the money involved. A lot of them, like any clubs really, choose to hang on until the end of the window because they are more likely to get a higher price than they would earlier. By bringing that date forward clubs will have these players earlier in the window.

 

We've already seen this window that Barca could not get the man they wanted from the premier league with a lot believing that it was down to not having time to replace him. The clubs have every right to say to the players if it's not sorted out by this date then it's not happening. The window should theoretically close that day for all big players with also giving the option of shipping out any actual unwanted players abroad after no clubs in England taking them.

[Lee909]

But what the English clubs will miss out on though is the movement after a big deal.

 

Once player A is sold teams like Real often then sell 2 or 3 other players to fund it. There will be a lot of clubs over here missing out

[ngogswilly]

If everyone in Europe follows suit it will be a good move. If they dont it could end up biting a lot of english clubs right in the bumhole.

[Horus]

It needs to be a rule for everyone or noone. If Coutinho had a release clause for example, and Barca activated it after our deadline to fuck us over, then what? We're hamstringing ourselves more than helping.

[Gym Beglin]

Stupidist idea yet

 

So the other clubs round Europe can push the pressure on to get players to leave and you cant replace them. Then they push prices up for English clubs before going back to normal fees after.

 

It says that PL clubs can't sell or buy after the deadline, so ok surely?

 

 

Anyway, this is interesting.

[The Guest]

It needs to be a rule for everyone or noone. If Coutinho had a release clause for example, and Barca activated it after our deadline to fuck us over, then what? We're hamstringing ourselves more than helping.

The clubs need to just get smart with it and just put wording in the contracts that any release clauses are only active in the English transfer window.

[Pureblood]

It needs to be a rule for everyone or noone. If Coutinho had a release clause for example, and Barca activated it after our deadline to fuck us over, then what? We're hamstringing ourselves more than helping.

 

Could be another reason why we said no to Can's release clause.

 

Or do what The Guest said.

 

Still, it's not difficult to envisage this causing problems if it's not harmonised across Europe.