English clubs to scrap the summer transfer window
Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:48 am
English clubs consider scrapping summer transfer window due to coronavirus, this seems like a great idea, take the advantage away from agents and players, and give teams more time to make important financial decisions.
English clubs consider scrapping summer transfer window due to coronavirus
Daily Mirror
Friday 17th April 2020
The football season is in limbo due to the pandemic with the English leagues yet to decide if or when they will be able to finish the campaigns
The EFL are considering a proposal to scrap the summer transfer window for clubs in the Championship, League One and League Two.
Portsmouth chief executive Mark Catlin has put forward the radical idea to EFL chairman Rick Parry to help reduce the financial implications of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Pompey supremo Catlin said he has already lobbied his fellow EFL members to support the scheme and says Parry is in favour.
Catlin said: “It is something I have floated with the EFL executive, with the FA and with Rick Parry. Why put a restriction of trade on ourselves when there is no need to?
“It is something that is going to be coming under consideration; that we do not close the summer transfer window and keep it open until the end of January.
“That will allow clubs to trade their way out of this current crisis. I am talking specifically about League One and League Two, but potentially the Championship as well.
“If you had a League Two club struggling to pay their players’ salaries come November and they had a midfielder wanted by a club in League One or the Championship, why would you stop them being able to sell?
“I have spoken to 20-plus chief executives and owners in the EFL, including two in the Championship, and they have all said they would support it.
“Rick thinks it’s a good idea. We would need to speak to the FA, UEFA and FIFA but this would have a positive domestic impact.
“I cannot see why any of the other governing bodies would want to put a block on this.
“There is going to be a short window anyway which means the agents and the players hold all the aces. By taking the window away, I think it makes sense.
“I think It is already being considered and it would not surprise me at all if we did see it.”
Catlin also claims keeping the window open would reduce the financial burden on clubs in terms of their wage bill.
He added: “Even a club like Portsmouth could go into the season with slimmed down squad and save yourself a lot of money, knowing the loan market was still there
“You are not carrying that salary through the year just in case your right back or left back gets injured. It makes perfect sense on a number of levels.
“Whether you are a poorly-run club or a well-run club, this is going to be a very difficult period at least for the rest of this year and possibly beyond.”
English clubs consider scrapping summer transfer window due to coronavirus
Daily Mirror
Friday 17th April 2020
The football season is in limbo due to the pandemic with the English leagues yet to decide if or when they will be able to finish the campaigns
The EFL are considering a proposal to scrap the summer transfer window for clubs in the Championship, League One and League Two.
Portsmouth chief executive Mark Catlin has put forward the radical idea to EFL chairman Rick Parry to help reduce the financial implications of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Pompey supremo Catlin said he has already lobbied his fellow EFL members to support the scheme and says Parry is in favour.
Catlin said: “It is something I have floated with the EFL executive, with the FA and with Rick Parry. Why put a restriction of trade on ourselves when there is no need to?
“It is something that is going to be coming under consideration; that we do not close the summer transfer window and keep it open until the end of January.
“That will allow clubs to trade their way out of this current crisis. I am talking specifically about League One and League Two, but potentially the Championship as well.
“If you had a League Two club struggling to pay their players’ salaries come November and they had a midfielder wanted by a club in League One or the Championship, why would you stop them being able to sell?
“I have spoken to 20-plus chief executives and owners in the EFL, including two in the Championship, and they have all said they would support it.
“Rick thinks it’s a good idea. We would need to speak to the FA, UEFA and FIFA but this would have a positive domestic impact.
“I cannot see why any of the other governing bodies would want to put a block on this.
“There is going to be a short window anyway which means the agents and the players hold all the aces. By taking the window away, I think it makes sense.
“I think It is already being considered and it would not surprise me at all if we did see it.”
Catlin also claims keeping the window open would reduce the financial burden on clubs in terms of their wage bill.
He added: “Even a club like Portsmouth could go into the season with slimmed down squad and save yourself a lot of money, knowing the loan market was still there
“You are not carrying that salary through the year just in case your right back or left back gets injured. It makes perfect sense on a number of levels.
“Whether you are a poorly-run club or a well-run club, this is going to be a very difficult period at least for the rest of this year and possibly beyond.”
Re: English clubs to scrap the summer transfer window
Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:58 am
Bluebina wrote:English clubs consider scrapping summer transfer window due to coronavirus, this seems like a great idea, take the advantage away from agents and players, and give teams more time to make important financial decisions.
I have spoken to 20-plus chief executives and owners in the EFL, including two in the Championship, and they have all said they would support it.
Re: English clubs to scrap the summer transfer window
Fri Apr 17, 2020 6:12 pm
That all reads very contradictory to (a) the rights of clubs, players and (even) agents, and (b) the actual contract situation for so many who have theirs coming to an end
I may have read this song but does this mean no player would be sold, bought, be transferred full stop and/or have their existing contracts extended whether either party wanted to or not?
You appear to be in a position to gauge the feeling of so many key people, so maybe you can enlighten more?
I may have read this song but does this mean no player would be sold, bought, be transferred full stop and/or have their existing contracts extended whether either party wanted to or not?
You appear to be in a position to gauge the feeling of so many key people, so maybe you can enlighten more?
Re: English clubs to scrap the summer transfer window
Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:47 pm
Sven wrote:That all reads very contradictory to (a) the rights of clubs, players and (even) agents, and (b) the actual contract situation for so many who have theirs coming to an end
I may have read this song but does this mean no player would be sold, bought, be transferred full stop and/or have their existing contracts extended whether either party wanted to or not?
You appear to be in a position to gauge the feeling of so many key people, so maybe you can enlighten more?
Its going to be decided by FIFA/UEFA.. along with a bunch of other decisions that wont be universally pleasing or acceptable to some clubs/players/agents.. think we are in for a few years worth of court cases..
Re: English clubs to scrap the summer transfer window
Sat Apr 18, 2020 2:31 pm
Sven wrote:That all reads very contradictory to (a) the rights of clubs, players and (even) agents, and (b) the actual contract situation for so many who have theirs coming to an end
I may have read this song but does this mean no player would be sold, bought, be transferred full stop and/or have their existing contracts extended whether either party wanted to or not?
You appear to be in a position to gauge the feeling of so many key people, so maybe you can enlighten more?
Not my works Mark Caplins, I haven’t spoken to anyone
