Jose backs new look at window... but should it be open after the season starts?

Newcastle manager Alan Pardew, incensed by Arsenal’s pursuit of Yohan Cabaye, says it’s wrong that the transfer window is open as the season starts. These experts give their view.

JOSE MOURINHO

The transfer window goes too far, into the third and fourth fixture of the season. I agree that it’s too much but it gives everybody a chance to be in the market while we are still winning or losing points. It’s difficult. But it’s difficult for both sides.

In this specific case, Alan Pardew is not happy. I wouldn’t be happy in his position. But at the same time, who made the offer? Arsenal, a team who didn’t buy yet, a team who lost their first match, a team where the manager feels he needs to do something, to buy. So they want to do their work, too.

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There is not someone to blame or criticise. If you want to do something and leave every one of us out of this strange situation, you need to close the window differently. Then the problem is solved for everybody. You have to do the job during the summer.

But I don’t think they will do that.

MATT BARLOW

No-one in England would think it was a very good idea if the English window closed when our season starts and the rest of Europe carried on shopping until the end of August. Imagine the howls of protest from anyone in European competition, plus any less powerful club who lost a player in the last week of August and couldn’t buy a replacement because trading had ceased.

Yes, it would be better if the window closed before the season started but only if every other major football country did the same, at least in Europe. And good luck with correlating the global football calendar. Many minds have tackled the issue — with zero success.

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ROBERTO MARTINEZ

I’m not a big believer in having the window open while the games are starting. I don’t believe in getting involved in the transfer window when the games are under way.

DOMINIC KING

Should the transfer window still be open when the season starts? Definitely. I’d even go further and suggest it remains open until December 30. You could then get a more relaxed approach to buying and selling, and once clubs had their recruitment done over Christmas, that would be it then until June.

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IAN LADYMAN

The transfer window should close on July 31. Every season the opening weeks are overshadowed by comings and goings in the transfer market when everyone should be concentrating on the football. Uncertainty over players impacts on performances, and it places unnecessary pressure on managers.

COLIN YOUNG

What was wrong with the old system of leaving the window open until March? Apart from Jim White and Sky, who really benefits from the winter and summer closures? A longer period of transfers would stop panic buying and give teams outside the big six more chance to bridge what is becoming not just a gap, but a chasm.