Swansea City boss Michael Laudrup
has added his voice to those calling for the transfer window to close prior to
the start of the Premier League season.
Newcastle manager Alan Pardew and
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho have also stated their wish for managers to be able
to start the season with a finalised squad.
Laudrup cannot understand why such a move for the Premier League does
not have wholesale backing.
I can’t understand that either, I
think it would be in everybody’s best interests to have the window close before
the season starts, in fact if it were up to me I’d have it close on July 31st.
That way clubs would get the
necessary time to bed-in new signings and you wouldn’t have the stupid situation
where a player does a full pre-season and even plays the first few games of a
new season with one club before joining another.
And as an Arsenal fan I would have
a month’s less worth of agonising over whether we will actually sign anyone,
and then it transpires that we don’t, at least this way I’ll know we haven’t
spent any money before the season starts and not start a new campaign clinging
to the faint hopes we’ll spend big and then sit up watching sky sports news on transfer
deadline day hoping for them to announce a big signing for Arsenal but when the
clock hits midnight there’s nothing to suggest that’s happened and I go to bed
angry and frustrated because I know that it will be another season of scrapping
for fourth place in the league and not winning a trophy.
That is what eight years of
frustration boiling over reads like.
But back to the main point moving
the transfer window back to even the day before the season starts makes more sense
than where it is now and I, like Laudrup, Mourinho etc. am amazed that more isn’t
being done to make it happen.
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