Football transfer windows

[Bunkermagnet]

Is it time to rethink the transfer windows?
Perhaps return to just one, or more importantly to me, reduce their size and close the summer one as soon as the Community Shield game has kicked off.

What do you think, and this isn't club specific

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I'm okay with two windows but this one should close the moment the league your team are in start their season. The start of the season gets messed around far too much by late transfers.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

One window that is open from the day the season finishes to the day that is starts again - no other window

 

[Old Skier]

Don't have one, make them serve out their contracts with players becoming available on the day the contract expires. Managers susesed for making poor decisions and players know they have to stay.

 

[DCB]

One window that is open from the day the season finishes to the day that is starts again - no other window

Sounds like a sensible option.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

One window that is open from the day the season finishes to the day that is starts again - no other window

But clubs argue that they may need to enter the market if a player gets a serious injury and is out for the rest of the season. I seem to remember they did try the 1 window way, but it did create a few problems.
Personally I do think end of season to start of season is the best way, but I doubt 1 window will ever return.

 

[jim8flog]

So the club buys a new player in August and that player finds someone in the team like his wife more than him.

Are you going to make him wait a year to leave?

 

[Duckster]

Scrap the window totally and allow players to move when they want, however put in a league rule that players can't play for more than 2 teams in a single season, but keeping the "cup tied" rule in.

Could be worth looking at putting in a limit for number of players a single club can have (not just first team) to stop larger clubs signing up loads of players and farming them out on loan.

 

[Kellfire]

With leagues running at different times all around the world, you're dreaming to expect one window a season that has dates that coincide with the beginning and end of one particular league.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

I know it would never happen but I quite like the idea of making players stay until the end of their contract, as a Saints fan with the ongoing VvD saga this sounds very appealing

He is a classic example of a greedy player who was perfectly happy to sign an improved long term contract only a year ago then want to rip it up as soon as a bigger club starts sniffing around. One report today suggests Saints are happy to make him sit on the bench for the next 5 years but zero chance of that happening.

 

[Kellfire]

He is a classic example of a greedy player who was perfectly happy to sign an improved long term contract only a year ago then want to rip it up as soon as a bigger club starts sniffing around.

Yep, he wants more money and improved working conditions. It's a job. It's normal. Nothing to see here.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

I know it would never happen but I quite like the idea of making players stay until the end of their contract, as a Saints fan with the ongoing VvD saga this sounds very appealing

He is a classic example of a greedy player who was perfectly happy to sign an improved long term contract only a year ago then want to rip it up as soon as a bigger club starts sniffing around. One report today suggests Saints are happy to make him sit on the bench for the next 5 years but zero chance of that happening.

All these new player contracts do is say how much more the club will sell him for.
Contracts in football have long been less about how long you will stay and more about how much they will get when you leave.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Yep, he wants more money and improved working conditions. It's a job. It's normal. Nothing to see here.

And herein lies the problem......greed. He was more than happy to accept the wads of cash last year. He has been out injured since January and Saints still fill his bank account every week. They have upheld their side of the deal but it's OK for players not to uphold their side? He signed up to a 6 year commitment.

 

[USER1999]

And herein lies the problem......greed. He was more than happy to accept the wads of cash last year. He has been out injured since January and Saints still fill his bank account every week. They have upheld their side of the deal but it's OK for players not to uphold their side? He signed up to a 6 year commitment.

A bit like marriage then, lifetime commitment, or until something better comes along.

 

[Kellfire]

And herein lies the problem......greed. He was more than happy to accept the wads of cash last year. He has been out injured since January and Saints still fill his bank account every week. They have upheld their side of the deal but it's OK for players not to uphold their side? He signed up to a 6 year commitment.

Greed? You've never taken a promotion then?

 

[GB72]

Greed? You've never taken a promotion then?

I Would look at it more like a contractor than a straight employee. If my wife takes on a contract she sees it through and only looks for the next contract once she is approaching the end of the last one. Does not seem too much to ask that a footballer sees out his contract and looks for the next one in the final year. Immediately you kill off transfer fees then you see more money for the clubs and more money for the players in inevitably increased wages. Seems like a win/win to me.

 

[Jates12]

I Would look at it more like a contractor than a straight employee. If my wife takes on a contract she sees it through and only looks for the next contract once she is approaching the end of the last one. Does not seem too much to ask that a footballer sees out his contract and looks for the next one in the final year. Immediately you kill off transfer fees then you see more money for the clubs and more money for the players in inevitably increased wages. Seems like a win/win to me.

Still if you are a contractor you will have the option to buy yourself out of it at a price if something better comes along. This just happens to be another company wanting to pay for that buyout so they can have you instead.

Its the same as being head hunted.

 

[Deleted member 23270]

Greed? You've never taken a promotion then?

That is a pretty silly comparison because a promotion is within the same company that has probably paid out to train you and improve your skills so you are repaying some of that commitment.

Footballers are an asset that cost a lot of money and their value can go down as well as up. If a team pays out £50m and a year later that player wants to leave and his value has dropped to £30m, where is the benefit to the club??

 

[Blakey]

And herein lies the problem......greed. He was more than happy to accept the wads of cash last year. He has been out injured since January and Saints still fill his bank account every week. They have upheld their side of the deal but it's OK for players not to uphold their side? He signed up to a 6 year commitment.

But it was fine when you signed him on improved terms from Celtic?

No one likes it when it's their own club having to sell when they can't match the salary or the potential trophy count, but that's just the way of the world.

 

[Kellfire]

That is a pretty silly comparison because a promotion is within the same company that has probably paid out to train you and improve your skills so you are repaying some of that commitment.

Footballers are an asset that cost a lot of money and their value can go down as well as up. If a team pays out £50m and a year later that player wants to leave and his value has dropped to £30m, where is the benefit to the club??

A promotion can be to another company.

And you describe footballers like any employee. As long as they're perceived to be making more than they cost, all is well.