One week to go in the transfer market.
Posted on August 24th, 2010 | 208 Comments |
Next Tuesday at 6pm (BST) the summer transfer window will be closed and we will know what we have in terms of the playing squad to take us through to the next transfer window in January.
It will also hopefully put an end to the ridiculous amount of ‘in the know’ people that have popped out of the woodwork.
There is nothing wrong with a good old rumour mind, although the lengths that people are going to to try and drag them up are, quite frankly, becoming ridiculous. Sign of the times though I guess as things like Twitter become far more prominent whilst Sky cover all the transfer activity, repeatedly, from a multitude of angles. Long gone are the days where there was only the rumour column in the printed press! Memories eh?
How are we going to do in this final week though? Chris Hughton keeps saying that we are still in the market for players, even after the imminent arrival of Cheick Tiote, but who will they be? Will they be permanent signings or loan signings?
Just to clarify, loan signings in the Premier League are NOT allowed outside of the normal transfer window unless there is an exceptional circumstance for doing so, like a goalkeeping injury crisis for example. However, clubs can still sign out of contract players at any time.
So come 6pm next Tuesday, what we have is what we must go forward with. Some rumours roll on, like the Ben Arfa one for example, some rumours will not even be heard of yet. It is only when the transfer window shuts that we will actually know where we stand.
This transfer window has been made more difficult by the fact that the club are being forced to get the best possible bang for the limited buck on offer. It’s early days, but I don’t think we have done too bad so far with the capture of Sol Campbell, Tiote, Perch and Gosling.
So with only one week remaining, who do you think we will see in at St James’ Park? Who would you like to see? How many players would you like to see?
So many questions, so let’s have a mass debate over them.
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