Transfer Window - good bye and good riddance.

[shoddycollins]

Sky Sports and the average Premiership fan might jizz their pants all January long over the prospects of big name signings, Jim White's moment in the sun (although in January, his tie is the only yellow thing in the Sky - ba-dum-tish), Bored reporters being harrased by gurning idiots as they stand in the freezing cold outside some deserted training ground hoping to glimpse a personalised number plate, and of course Harry Redknapp leaning out of a car window, not to mention the (not a real word) 'Totaliser' every five minutes.

Am I alone in lower league fans though in seeing January as the absolute worst time of the footballing calendar? Glad that another one is over for a year and if they were to abolish the transfer window next season then I'd be more than happy to see the back of it. The transfer window means four weeks of speculation of whether your season is about to come off the rails; it means crucial members of your team departing because some Championship side met the release clause, leaving you with only hours to find a replacement; it means agents using the fact a player will be out of contract in the summer as a way of holding your club to ransom and more often than not it leaves you with a weakened squad and holes to patch till the end of the season.

If I were in charge there would be no transfer window, instead though, like in the old days, the loan window would remain open until about March/April, or at the very least, no release clauses in January and an extra couple of weeks to bring in loanees to replace players lost on deadline day.

Discuss.

 

[Chris FGR]

All this wild excitement and mainly over transfers that if they happened on any other day, no one would give a shit about.

I mean honestly, is it really so exciting that you need a reporter LIVE ON THE SCENE when Stoke sign Badou Ndiaye (who?) or Palace sign Alexander Sorloth (who?) or have cameras excitidely following MEGASTAR erm, Lucas Moura (who?) as he arrives at Heathrow to sign for Spurs.

We had our local journo giving EXCLUSIVE LIVE coverage of our transfer deadline, 2 loans and a youngster sold to Leeds were the MAJOR stories of the day, which is all well and good but hardly worth wetting yourself over tbh.

I would definitely ditch the window for the lower leagues, cannot see any point in it just causes trouble.

 

[GTFCfish]

I love it, I mean last year we sold our best player who was carrying our season on his shoulders and didn't replace him properly and our season completely fell apart.

Then yesterday we allowed one of our most gifted players and leading goal scorer Sam Jones to fuck off to Shrewsbury whilst we've only scored 3 goals in our last 10 games, and then signed a 30 year old past it journeyman to replace him, fucking wonderful I just love the January window!

 

[Buxton Vale]

It just serves to inflate prices and provoke teams into desperate measures to secure average players for far more than they are worth.

Just look at the Jordan Hugill situation. Nine or ten million for an average championship player - really??

 

[TimeyWimey]

I don't mind it, otherwise we'd be like DFS with a CLOSING DOWN SALE sign up for 365 days of the year.

 

[Vanni]

Who is the other joker with the Jim White cut out?

 

[Luke Imp]

I don't think it needs to be a month long. If it was two months long, you'd still have players and agents holding deals up until the last minute. Might as well make it a 2 weeks one and get it over with.

Certainly don't think games should be played on deadline day. We had a situation last season where Southend made an approach for Theo Robinson at 4pm on the 31st January as we were travelling to play Solihull. Theo pulled out of the squad at the ground, remained at the ground to see whether a deal could be worked out for him here whilst being on the phone to his agent who was also on the phone to Southend. He never even had a medical before signing there.

Luckily for us, the transfer window had changed last season for NL sides i.e. there isn't one anymore and we could sign someone else but it wasn't exactly ideal at the time because we lost a first choice striker all of a sudden with games piling up.