The January transfer window or the January panic buy as it seems to always work out to be has always been a bug bear of mine. The whole concept sets clubs to not get their teams in order from the start of the season. The window being open whilst the season has started and then again half-way through the season leads into the knee-jerk reactions which have taken over footballing decisions in the 21st century.

Hear me out for a minute, but wouldn’t it be more exciting in the summer knowing that there was huge pressure to build a successful team for the entire season rather than having the option to bail yourself out of trouble by paying over the odds in January.

The game is already very much instant success driven and the fact that halfway through a season you are able to make wholesale changes to your team in preparation for the second half of the season feeds into this mantra that patience should not be given and that short-term failure for long-term gain should be tolerated.

This stability is needed more so in the lower leagues as losing key players in the middle of a season can destroy a promotion push or catapult a team into a relegation battle. Sure they can always say no but that can lead to that player downing tools which in effect means you lose the player anyway, just a bit later for no more output and no money. Removing the ability for such players to jump ship half-way through a season would allow those teams to stay together and restrict any negative impact being inflicted on on them.

I would even consider going as far to make managerial appointments fixed for the season, much trickier to implement as the clubs are owned by extremely wealthy owners who would fight back on this but the move would bring more stability to the game and I for one think that would be quite nice!

Now the changing of the playing squad and managers is solely down to the huge amount of money involved in the game. Should there be so much? That is a completely different beast in itself but in truth it is probably the root cause for most of the problems in which football faces, at least at the top level.

So although scrapping the January transfer window wouldn’t remove the amount of money in the game being spent, it would at least bring with it a fraction of stability and clever spending which is much needed in a fragile and blinded world of sport.

Can I see this happening…absolutely not! But I’d definitely like to be proven wrong.

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