AuthorJeffEyesRimmer Growing up with football over the past 20 to 30 years football fans have had to accept the relentless commercialisation of football, where we have become consumers to the powers that be rather than actual fans. So it is with great joy that finally some common sense has prevailed in football. As of next season the English Premier League Transfer window will shut before the first game of the season. Thankfully, finally, someone has made a good decision. We here at Football Outcasts often lament some of the rule changes that go on in football and often rant about how there are so many more issues in football to address rather than for instance the order in which a penalty shootout is taken. So we will applaud the decision makers this time, credit where credit is due. The deadline day transfer window has become something of a farce really. Its built up to the 10th degree by the football media, with journalists posted at every ground trying to get a glimpse of a player turning up at the stadium. While I loved seeing Natalie Sawyer I did get fed up with hearing Jim White shouting at me about transfer’s incoming and outgoing.
The funny thing is that with the advent of social media the need for this kind of coverage is not needed, most of the time the fans are already aware of the transfer before any player turns up at a ground. The Twitterverse is well aware of a player being transferred often well before the TV cameras have anything to go on. The best thing about this change is that teams should be settled at the start of the season from now on. Currently this two week window in August allows for plenty of disillusionment at clubs with player’s agents trying to engineer moves away. There are currently players like Coutinho, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Virgil Van Dijk sitting out of the opening games due to unrest. If these players can’t leave as soon before the first games get under way then it would cut out the questions like the ones directed at Jurgen Klopp on the weekend. Instead of really going into the game with Watford the journalists were asking about the status of the transfer. Daft! It will allow for clarity around the squads, fans, players and managers know what they are dealing with as the season kicks off. It would also stop the stream of excuses you hear like a knock or a convenient niggle keeping a player out, players not being ‘in the right frame of mind’ or becoming suddenly unavailable for actually no reason. As I stated the transfer deadline day is a made up thing, generated by the TV companies and whips fans into frenzy with last minute signings. I question why clubs need to make these last minute signings anyway, they have had a whole preseason to bring players in and get them going. If you haven’t identified the issues in the squad before the season kicks off then you have to question the management. I admit I will miss the Harry Redknapp car window interviews but I am willing to give that up for more settled squads and a bit less drama. Thanks Premier League, keep up the good work. Image Credit: https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/02/15/Sawyer.jpg |
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