Cooper and Hughes are the types we should be after. Young and Hungry on an upward trend. Through our own good luck we actually have a couple of seasoned championship players now with Coyle, Jones and Slater. We can afford to give some youth a go that are on an upward trend. Kyprianou at Posh is another I would take a punt on
I'm not sure what you mean. He was not pre acun or Liam. My point was merely he was a liam signing, and it did not work out. Like many others. **** signings are a problem across the board. Not just the acun meltdown cos he signed sinik.
https://x.com/ben_mattinson_/status/1817387428883120615?s=46&t=xcKqqLsTSZZbiOk3tbnUcw Never worked out here for him, but glad he’s put his injuries behind him and looks like he’s getting there
I don’t think the lad would come back. Not sure he was actually here in the first place. I’m assuming most of his injury recovery was at arsenals facilities rather than ours.
Even worse. You'd have teams challenging for titles picking off players from teams fighting relegation relentlessly.
The transfer window is a relatively new concept, previously you could sign players any time apart from the last few weeks of the season, to prevent clubs with nothing to play for being raided for players during the run-in. I'm not sure whether I'd be in favour of a return to a free-for-all, but I definitely agree with the others saying that the current system is a mess. I hate this business of starting the season with a squad you know is miles from being complete. If we're going to have a window system I'd have it close much earlier, ideally before teams do their pre-season camps, though I'm sure that'd be difficult to fit in.
I think the logic of closing it during the season is to allow all leagues to start meaning that movement can be finalised and not disadvantage one league over another. I also think it allows for a few weeks to allow for any corrections needing to be made due to injuries/holes in squads, so I do somewhat understand the logic, but it does mean that things end up being left very late for a lot of clubs. There was that one year the FA closed the window in England before the season started but it meant that clubs were raided by other European leagues that still had their windows open.
I could never understand how that was an issue. Just because other clubs' windows were open doesn't mean English clubs were forced to accept offers.
You're right but if players want to make the move, as we've just seen with Tufan, you end up allowing the move to happen, and it just weakens the English clubs' position because they can't then bring in a replacement.
Was the old deadline on the penultimate Thursday in March? I can't remember exactly, but I wouldn't support returning to that for the reasons you've outlined. However, some sort of reform is necessary. This is a complex issue. In the old system, a foreign transfer usually meant signing a tricky Scottish winger for 400k. Now, throughout the league system, we're dealing with international transfers from teams whose leagues start before ours, after ours, or follow a completely different calendar (March to November or similar). Reform is definitely needed here—I'm not sure how, but ideally, it should mean the window shuts before our season starts. However, I doubt this would work given the international complexities.
They don't but it stifles movement. Transfers are often a chain reaction and clubs, lower in the chain, often need that stimuli from the top. I think if ours closed much earlier that other European leagues regularly, it would have ramifications throughout. English clubs need that level playing field of being able to trade to a similar date, but also this impacts upon the first few weeks of our season negatively.
We've sort of tried with the likes of TLT, Simons and Furlong but we've never given them a route to the 1st team so that they can actually develop. Posh produce again and again as they're one of the few that can spend in L1/L2 and they look at signing young players and persevere with them. Everyone just wants instant success.
