No signings on the horizon
The transfer window lumbers on with fans no doubt wanting deals when in reality most deals will be done towards the end of the window.
A purchase will often increase the wage bill so for cash strapped clubs it is business sense to wait until the end of the month to begin paying fresh wages. This year we also have the African Cup of Nations which doesn't start until January 17th so any loan replacements would not be brought in until then, again as they would add to the wage bill.
On the other side of the coin any club selling a player or perhaps loaning a player out may need a replacement so that deal has to be tied up as well. The selling club may wish to hang on to a striker for instance to get the maximum goals from them before allowing him to move at the end of the month. That would mean the buying club not being able to release the striker they are selling until the same time.
Take a player like Kyle Naughton, there are various clubs who would like to take him including Swansea City, who tried to sign him in the summer, and Leicester City. Spurs wouldn't let him leave not because of his ability, but because Kyle Walker hadn't recovered from injury, without a replacement being brought in, Eric Dier was not thought of as a replacement at that stage, Naughton couldn't be released. Has Spurs been able to secure Yedlin to start the season then Naughton would have left.
As it is this window with the arrival of Yedlin Naughton can leave as soon as he negotiates a deal, Swansea and Tottenham are said to have agreed a £4 million deal.
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A player will have various options and his agent will be negotiating with various parties to get his client the best deal, while all those clubs have got to talk to the selling club and agree a financial package with them, which will be different for each club. It can be a swift process, as with Christian Eriksen, but is more often lengthy.
Of course it doesn't confine itself to the transfer window, clubs sound out players and clubs all the time either through agents, player to player or club to club. A transfer window has to be planned for, targets scouted extensively and background checks done, although that is a lot easier these days than it used to be.
Unless an injury forces a clubs hand money seems to rule, whether we agree that it should or not is immaterial, it does and we have to live with it.
A purchase will often increase the wage bill so for cash strapped clubs it is business sense to wait until the end of the month to begin paying fresh wages. This year we also have the African Cup of Nations which doesn't start until January 17th so any loan replacements would not be brought in until then, again as they would add to the wage bill.
On the other side of the coin any club selling a player or perhaps loaning a player out may need a replacement so that deal has to be tied up as well. The selling club may wish to hang on to a striker for instance to get the maximum goals from them before allowing him to move at the end of the month. That would mean the buying club not being able to release the striker they are selling until the same time.
Take a player like Kyle Naughton, there are various clubs who would like to take him including Swansea City, who tried to sign him in the summer, and Leicester City. Spurs wouldn't let him leave not because of his ability, but because Kyle Walker hadn't recovered from injury, without a replacement being brought in, Eric Dier was not thought of as a replacement at that stage, Naughton couldn't be released. Has Spurs been able to secure Yedlin to start the season then Naughton would have left.
As it is this window with the arrival of Yedlin Naughton can leave as soon as he negotiates a deal, Swansea and Tottenham are said to have agreed a £4 million deal.
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A player will have various options and his agent will be negotiating with various parties to get his client the best deal, while all those clubs have got to talk to the selling club and agree a financial package with them, which will be different for each club. It can be a swift process, as with Christian Eriksen, but is more often lengthy.
Of course it doesn't confine itself to the transfer window, clubs sound out players and clubs all the time either through agents, player to player or club to club. A transfer window has to be planned for, targets scouted extensively and background checks done, although that is a lot easier these days than it used to be.
Unless an injury forces a clubs hand money seems to rule, whether we agree that it should or not is immaterial, it does and we have to live with it.
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