Should the transfer window close when the season starts

There was nothing wrong with the way it used to be, when I think the window closed in the last Thursday in March.

If there's restrictions on squad size and make up like there is now, I don't see a problem.

There certainly didn't seem any problems back in the old days.
 
Go Full American - every club gets 1 wildcard move outside the window if its a club record or someone niche requirement.
 
I know we generally detest American ideas in footy but I genuinely think they have a good one regarding transfers.

What they do is.. there's no summer transfer window.. the window is open until 60% of the season is done (usually jan 31st) and then it locks for the run in till season's over.

We're a lot less likely to buy wrong players if we're not rushed so I see that as a positive!
 
urban genie said:
If football employment ran like any other business there wouldn't be transfers at all, there would be employees seeing out a contract or being released or fired depending on circumstance and then finding a new employer.
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You mean like a FREE transfer - not sure but I think I've heard of those ;)
 
Blue_Lightsaber said:
I know we generally detest American ideas in footy but I genuinely think they have a good one regarding transfers.

What they do is.. there's no summer transfer window.. the window is open until 60% of the season is done (usually jan 31st) and then it locks for the run in till season's over.

We're a lot less likely to buy wrong players if we're not rushed so I see that as a positive!
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We're not rushed though. We have a full 12 months between one summer window and the next one
 
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:
There was nothing wrong with the way it used to be, when I think the window closed in the last Thursday in March.

If there's restrictions on squad size and make up like there is now, I don't see a problem.

There certainly didn't seem any problems back in the old days.
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I think the issue may have been around teams buying to stop other teams getting above them?? (Jon Maken says hi at this point - £5m spunked by us allegedly to stop him going to rivals in the February of the last season before transfer windows were introduced 2002)
For me business is business, I reckon these days you'd pay a large premium to sign a player mid-season - as January generally proves.
I don't really care either way as football changes constantly these days to protect the "history" clubs
 
Blue_Lightsaber said:
I know we generally detest American ideas in footy but I genuinely think they have a good one regarding transfers.

What they do is.. there's no summer transfer window.. the window is open until 60% of the season is done (usually jan 31st) and then it locks for the run in till season's over.

We're a lot less likely to buy wrong players if we're not rushed so I see that as a positive!
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It’s not American though it’s what we had before the introduction of windows, think the transfer deadline was about March. or around then.
 
blueparrot said:
It’s not American though it’s what we had before the introduction of windows, think the transfer deadline was about March. or around then.
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So why would Europeans introduce stupidity into the system?

Did it make too much common sense that it become lax and boring? Or did Fabrizio Romano and Shite Sports bribe EUFA?
 
Blue_Lightsaber said:
So why would Europeans introduce stupidity into the system?

Did it make too much common sense that it become lax and boring? Or did Fabrizio Romano and Shite Sports bribe EUFA?
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Not sure it had anything to do with Europe, and it was well before Romano and social media.Think the reason was to stop big clubs raiding smaller clubs whenever they felt like it and disrupting their planning.
 
YES!

The season shouldn’t start until the last weekend in August.

All European leagues (apart from the Summer leagues) should start on that same weekend and there should be a Europe-wide transfer window that closes before that weekend. It should close as many days before (is it three?) that it takes to register a player in time to play the opening fixture.

We start far too early in England. Far too many players/teams have far too little a pre-season or if they do it’s disrupted to fuck by parading them around the world on these shit tours like meat to knobheads who call it ‘soccer’ and call us ‘Mayn Siddy’, all for a bit of cash. The amount of injuries in this sport is contributed to by shit and short pre-seasons and too much travel.

There should be no international breaks, at all really, but realistically, until October and only two rather than this three before Christmas that’s crept in in the last few years.

There should be no Winter break, it’s a daft idea that was never needed in decades gone by. It was just seen as trendy because other leagues do it. Squad sizes these days sees rotation happen so much that players easily get half a dozen breaks a season anyway, unless you’re Rodri. So what’s the point in adding just one more which takes away a fixture?

Then we’d fit all games into the season properly and all transfers can be concluded by the time the season gets underway.

Plus the January Transfer window should be scrapped or make it loans only.
 
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The transfer "window" shouldn't close, period.

Football players should be free to leave Utd at any point of the season.
 
Make it so that the selling and buying leagues can only do business if their transfer window is identical. Everyone would fall in line within a couple of years, and we could close the window prior to the start of the season finally, and not worry about others poaching players when we can no longer do business.
 
Yes! I hate transfers after the first game..Granted, im hoping we get someone in. But Transfers after games have started always struck me as tacky.
 
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