I don’t think there are any rules over loans in the championship. Maybe there is something related to match day squads? But as mentioned by someone else - not club related
They try to avoid it closing on the same night that evening matches are taking place (within reason - clearly that won't always be possible). I think this will be the third winter transfer window in a row where the deadline has been delayed by 24 hours, due to midweek matches on 31 January.
Maximum of four from any one club - with no more than two of those four being over the age of 23. Maximum of five players in total in your matchday squad. We encountered that problem under Pearson for a while, where we had to omit one of our six players.
And Arsenal were apparently after Ben Johnson last month. https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2023/07/...-want-to-sign-23-year-old-english-right-back/
Swansea City head coach Michael Duff says the club have rejected an offer for centre-back Nathan Wood. Reports emerging on Wednesday claimed Southampton had lodged an offer of around £10million for the 21-year-old, who's emerged as a key target for former Swans boss Russell Martin. While admitting Southampton's interest is genuine, suggestions of a bid were initially strongly denied by club sources. But Duff has since claimed the club have now rebuffed a concrete approach for the centre-back. "I think there's a bid, yeah," he said when asked about the speculation. "I think it got rejected. It's a sign of having good players. If no one's bidding for any of the players then we'd be useless. We think we've got some good players. "Woody's one of those. He's got loads and loads of work to do, but he's got a high ceiling in terms of his footballing ability and his attributes as well. "As an ex-centre-half I'll try to help him as much as I can, and we'll see what happens." Pressed on whether the bid was from Southampton, he added: "I know there was a bid. I've read the same Sky Sports News as you." It's not clear how much the bid was, nor is there yet any clarity on how much it will take to prise Wood away from SA1. "I don't get involved in that part of the conversation," Duff insisted. "There will be a valuation of every player. If it's met, they get sold. That's the food chain. It doesn't matter where you are in the football world."
Loans are interesting in the Championship aren't they. Almost every team who has ever won the league has done so with two or three really good loan signings who are either too good for the division or go on to be PL players. Leicester seem to have found one with Casadei. I'd love for us to be pursuing players like McAatee, Harwood-Bellis, Broja types who would start for us and elevate us to the next level. I know they'd likely have suitors higher up the food chain as well as Leicester, Leeds etc.
Swansea manager Michael Duff on Joel Piroe's future: "I don't know if they [Leeds] have tabled a bid or not," he said. "I'm the same as everyone else. Things will happen quickly at this stage of the window now, because they have to. "If the board and Paul (Watson) make that decision, we'll react to it. So as far as I'm aware, it's a no at the minute. But I don't know if anything's happened or anything's happening. Obvious it's first thing on Thursday, so I've not met any of the players or anything like that yet. "There's a week left. There's one game left between now and when the window shuts. So one way or the other there's going to be clarity anyway. "It's not ideal that it's rumbling on this long, no. But I'm not in control of that part of it." "That'll be the outcome over the next week," he added. "I imagine he'll either sign a deal or he'll be sold. "I don't envisage the club letting him run his contract down, because I don't think it would make economic sense. "There has been conversations with Joel. It's not a case of 'I'm not signing a contract'. There has been a dialogue between the club, his agent, and Joel. Where that's at, I don't know." "I've had conversations with him saying that I'd like him to stay. The club have been in dialogue with him. But until there's a decision made one way or the other, and it moves fast. Over the off-season and during the early parts of pre-season, it's prolonged and it takes a bit of time. "But when you get to this. He might come in this morning saying he's signed the contract, and he might come in and say he's driving up the road somewhere. “I’m the same as everyone else, I’m just waiting for those decisions to be made.”
Crap. Leeds close in on a deal worth around £12m to sign Joel Piroe from Swansea as Daniel Farke looks to bolster his attacking options following the Whites' summer exodus | Daily Mail Online
Can't wait for the transfer window to be closed and to know where we stand with players and just get on with the actual football part of football.
My gut feeling all summer is that most of the loan action will happen in this final week of the window. Once everyone has a clearer idea of where they stand - what they need, what they don't need, what size their squad is etc - then it becomes easier to make progress with loan deals. Both in terms of the Championship clubs who want to loan the players, and the PL clubs who own the players. Decent PL youngsters who might not have been attainable on loan earlier in the window might now be much more attainable.
Not unduly worried. Also I'm sure Leeds fans will be getting PTSD from the Max Aarons deal when that was 'set to complete'
TBH I have a hard time believing Swansea would accept 12mill if multiple clubs are interested and the seem to have turned down our 10mill bid for Wood. Doesn't seem to add up. And even if the asking price was 12mill, surely we would just match that and let Piroe decide.
They're just nervous about the Saints rumours. Doubt Swansea will sell without secretly alerting Saints to the latest bid.
Who is “they” in this instance? And Swansea seem like they are difficult to deal with. The compensation saga sounds like they are right chancers. And them still being annoyed about it shows they honestly think they are in the right which is baffling. And then those Wood reports of one minute there is no bid but then that the rejected one. They don’t seem like straight forward dealers The Beto thing is weird - surely they can’t afford him if they can’t afford Che
