Mighty men
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Yes.
You mean like a FREE transfer - not sure but I think I've heard of those ;)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.
We're not rushed though. We have a full 12 months between one summer window and the next oneI 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!
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)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.
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.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!
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.
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.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?