Percentage of Transfer Market

[brendywendy]

theyre just spinning to suit their own negative viewpoints

Having just joined this debate today, I thought it was more in reply to this comment from someone who'll remain almost nameless

not being funny

but coppell is right

how many signings you seen so far, for anyone?
i dunno , im just guessing, but its about a handfull, if that

LOL


its a fair cop

[Y25]

Does anyone have the figures for how we rated against the bigger clubs in the prem but more interestingly:
do clubs getting promoted from the Championship often buy their promotion or use a settled team?

Lets just hope in a fortnight we still have a team

[earleyroyal]

The significance of tomorrow is that it's the start of the football "year" - standard players' contracts all run from 1st July to 30th June, and so from tomorrow all the players who are released are officially free agents.

Having said that, if a player is not going to be offered a new contract or has declined one, the rules do allow clubs to approach those players without seeking specific permission of the club they are contracted to - they've been able to do that for 6 -8 weeks or so.

All other players who have on-going contracts cannot officially be approached by any club - the contact must be through the club to whom they are contracted. (*)

The other significance of the date is that as it's the start of the season financially, clubs now have money free - all the released players are no longer on the payroll and so new players can be taken on without breaking the budget or cashflow.

(*)this does not, of course, apply to anyone called Trevor Brooking.

That's 'Sir Trevor Brooking the footballing guardian of our moral values and general all-round angel' to you!

[SCIAG]

Having said that, if a player is not going to be offered a new contract or has declined one, the rules do allow clubs to approach those players without seeking specific permission of the club they are contracted to - they've been able to do that for 6 -8 weeks or so.

All other players who have on-going contracts cannot officially be approached by any club - the contact must be through the club to whom they are contracted. (*)

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Ca I slightly correct you there Dirk?

If the player is based outside of the UK, the club can go in for him 6 months before his contract expires. Likewise, clubs from abroad can go for players based in the UK 6 months in advance. The transfer then take place on the 1st of July.