A small rant about the transfer window. Why on earth is it a month long? All the excitement that has built up between September and January at the prospect of some good old transfer speculation, the prospect of replacing the moron at left-back etc. quickly dissipates after two-and-a-half weeks of constant and often ridiculous rumours and very little action indeed.
Most transfers seem to happen either right at the beginning of the window or right at the end. The delay in deals is inevitable as clubs on either side of the deal wait until the last possible minute hoping to squeeze an extra bit of cash out of the buyer or force the seller to lower their price. We saw it a few years ago with Louis Saha and Scott Parker, and this window Watford have shamelessly created what amounts to an auction for Ashley Young, pretending they don't want to sell when they have intended to all along. After a while it just gets bloody boring, and you can't wait for the thing to shut again.
One solution would surely be to shorten it to two weeks. That way clubs have enough time to do their business, less time to stand-off against each other, and less time to bore us rigid.
Most transfers seem to happen either right at the beginning of the window or right at the end. The delay in deals is inevitable as clubs on either side of the deal wait until the last possible minute hoping to squeeze an extra bit of cash out of the buyer or force the seller to lower their price. We saw it a few years ago with Louis Saha and Scott Parker, and this window Watford have shamelessly created what amounts to an auction for Ashley Young, pretending they don't want to sell when they have intended to all along. After a while it just gets bloody boring, and you can't wait for the thing to shut again.
One solution would surely be to shorten it to two weeks. That way clubs have enough time to do their business, less time to stand-off against each other, and less time to bore us rigid.
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