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EPL to close transfer window before season
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English Premier League clubs voted yesterday to close the 2018 close-season transfer window before the start of the 2018-19 campaign.
Following complaints by managers that transfer activity disturbs their preparations, EPL clubs will not be able to register new players after 1600 GMT on the Thursday before the season starts.
The transfer window in Europe鈥檚 other major leagues runs until August 31, meaning clubs outside England could buy players from English top-flight teams after the new EPL deadline.
鈥淧remier League clubs have today agreed to a rule amendment that will see the summer transfer window in any year end at 17:00 on the Thursday before the start of the season,鈥 the EPL said in a statement. 鈥淭his is for Premier League clubs only and has no bearing on other leagues and competitions.鈥
The move was announced following a meeting of EPL club officials and is not believed to have been agreed unanimously.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger gave his backing to the decision before it was announced.
鈥淓ven in the games, you sit there before the games and even in players鈥 minds they have no clarity,鈥 he told reporters at his weekly press conference.
鈥淎re they in? Are they out? Are they half in? Are they half out? Are they tapped up in the afternoon of the game by people who want to get them out? It鈥檚 not the way to work and it鈥檚 uncomfortable.
鈥淓very single manager in the league would agree that it鈥檚 time to kick that out before the season starts and not continue to have players in the dressing room who are half out and half in.鈥
England鈥檚 Football League 鈥 the second, third and fourth tiers 鈥 is not affected by the move but a similar change is on the agenda for its meeting of clubs on September 21.
EPL clubs spent a record 1.4 billion pounds (US$1.8 billion) on new players during the 2017 close-season window.
The window closed last Thursday, three weeks after the new season had started.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain played for Arsenal in a 0-4 loss to Liverpool in the third game of the season on August 27. He then joined Liverpool on August 31 鈥 the final day of the transfer window.
Chris Hughton, manager of promoted Brighton and Hove Albion, welcomed the decision. 鈥淭hat is good news,鈥 he said. 鈥淢ost managers would say the same. You have a hectic enough time as it is preparing for the season.鈥
Earlier this week, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin gave his support to making the close-season player trading period shorter.
Transfer windows were introduced by world governing body FIFA in 2002.
In Europe they generally run from the start of June to the end of August, with a shorter mid-season window in January.
Some European clubs have also expressed support for shortening the window but the EPL is so far the only league to have made the move.
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