Scrap the transfer window
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Scrap the transfer window
In the past the selling of players was a lifeline ,financially, for clubs struggling to pay creditors usually the HMRC tax bills. In the current climate of finacial uncertainty, maybe its time again to allow the sale and recruitment of players to revert to a whole season long one.
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How would you feel if the club sold Pope when we had 5-10 games left and we were fighting relegation or pushing for Europe?
See Barcelona signing Braithwaite if you aren't sure how stupid the idea is.
Clubs struggle to pay their bills through poor financial management, season long transfer options won't resolve that issue.
See Barcelona signing Braithwaite if you aren't sure how stupid the idea is.
Clubs struggle to pay their bills through poor financial management, season long transfer options won't resolve that issue.
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The transfer window is to stop the rich clubs just buying the best players from rivals towards the end of the season. You set your stall out, then go with it. Fine tune in January. For me, I’d scrap the January window. What you start the season with, you finish it. Then window from 1st June till the last Tuesday in August. Then “slammed” shut.
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I’d scrap it with the proviso that clubs have a 25 man squad for the season. 1 in, 1 out.
The point above about Nick Pope is irrelevant. If he is under contract you don’t have to sell and many is the time we have had to sell. Let’s pray Charlie Austin was the last
The point above about Nick Pope is irrelevant. If he is under contract you don’t have to sell and many is the time we have had to sell. Let’s pray Charlie Austin was the last
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I agree with rammys post. Also agree with huw about Charlie Austin, mention of Austin just made me think what a marvellous job Dyche is doing, he really doesn't get enough credit for it.
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Surely the transfer window benefits big clubs? They have the money to recruit over and above their 25 man squad and leave out anyone they don’t need or loan them out. Meanwhile, smaller clubs are forced to pay over the odds or gamble on new recruits as the window draws to a close as they fear being left short in one position. Would we have really bought Joe Hart were it not for the window.
Under the old system you couldn’t recruit players towards the back end of the season anyway.
Under the old system you couldn’t recruit players towards the back end of the season anyway.
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If its gets Jim White off our screens I'm up for scrapping the transfer window.
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I'd scrap agents fees. Clubs can have their scouting staff. Clubs can even have their "we have a player we want to sell staff." If footballers want to have the advice and assistance for someone independent of the club they play for advising them, then the player pays it out of his (and her) own income (leave it to tax systems to determine if this is a "business expense" and so paid by player before or after tax). Clubs must never pay agent fees - points reduction penalties to ensure this rule strictly observed. Staff employed by football club can only work for that one football club - whether they are the scouting (buying-in) or "player to sell" staff. People advising footballers can not, at the same time, be employed by any football club. Footballers are responsible for any "leaks of discussions/advice" they may or may not be having with the personal advisors. So, any media reports that player X would like a move to "big club" would be responsibility of the player - and may be the "big club" would be banned from signing that player through the period of their current contract.
Anyone think my proposed changes may even things up a little?
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Anyone think my proposed changes may even things up a little?
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The negotiated fee would then include, but never seen, the agents' fees, so the Club will still end up paying them.
The only way forward would be if agents were banned but that would not be in a player's interest. An alternative would be for the PFA to employ agents and maybe that would stop the present system where it seems agents engineer moves of players so that the agents can swell their bank balances
The only way forward would be if agents were banned but that would not be in a player's interest. An alternative would be for the PFA to employ agents and maybe that would stop the present system where it seems agents engineer moves of players so that the agents can swell their bank balances
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Re: Scrap the transfer window
It was never a whole season so that's something you can't revert to - there was always a transfer deadline.Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2020 6:11 amIn the past the selling of players was a lifeline ,financially, for clubs struggling to pay creditors usually the HMRC tax bills. In the current climate of finacial uncertainty, maybe its time again to allow the sale and recruitment of players to revert to a whole season long one.
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Just include December in the winter transfer window. December 1st until Jan 31st.
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We may not have to sell but if it was Chelsea looking to sign him and we refused, it could potentially unsettle him, so it's definitely relevant at a crucial time of the season.huw.Y.WattfromWare wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2020 7:16 amI’d scrap it with the proviso that clubs have a 25 man squad for the season. 1 in, 1 out.
The point above about Nick Pope is irrelevant. If he is under contract you don’t have to sell and many is the time we have had to sell. Let’s pray Charlie Austin was the last
Barca took the **** with that Braithwaite signing potentially relegating his former club.
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and buy the key player of your poorer over achieving competitor to weaken them as they were approaching the prize-giving portion of the seasonFoulthrow wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2020 8:48 amSurely the transfer window benefits big clubs? They have the money to recruit over and above their 25 man squad and leave out anyone they don’t need or loan them out. Meanwhile, smaller clubs are forced to pay over the odds or gamble on new recruits as the window draws to a close as they fear being left short in one position. Would we have really bought Joe Hart were it not for the window.
Under the old system you couldn’t recruit players towards the back end of the season anyway.
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it probably does buddy but I ain't got a clue were it is the tele never gets switched off on this household
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Without agents clubs will take advantage of players.
I read somewhere this week that David Jones didn’t have an agent when he was a young lad at Man U. So Gary Neville and Roy Keane stepped in to make sure Man U didn’t try it on and he got what he was worth.
I read somewhere this week that David Jones didn’t have an agent when he was a young lad at Man U. So Gary Neville and Roy Keane stepped in to make sure Man U didn’t try it on and he got what he was worth.
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Exactly what our NEIGHbours did when they signed Duncan Shearer from Swindon. Swindon plummeted and they went up.Chester Perry wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2020 12:03 pmand buy the key player of your poorer over achieving competitor to weaken them as they were approaching the prize-giving portion of the season
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Totally agree. I particularly like the idea of a long summer window.RammyClaret61 wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2020 7:04 amThe transfer window is to stop the rich clubs just buying the best players from rivals towards the end of the season. You set your stall out, then go with it. Fine tune in January. For me, I’d scrap the January window. What you start the season with, you finish it. Then window from 1st June till the last Tuesday in August. Then “slammed” shut.