Teams in England who have a jewel that the top teams are chasing will need to hang on to them until the end of the season. It is more value for the smaller teams to keep hold of their star man until the summer and hope to avoid relegation than sell a star name and end up in the Championship.
>There will be a lot of transfers involving players coming into the last 6 months of their contracts however. Players like Gary Cahill will feel he needs a move to avoid becoming a forgotten man for England. Relegation form isn’t going to get you into Capello’s Euro 2012 squad.
Swap deals seem to be popular as teams try to save on their spending. A deal with Frank Lampard and Real Madrid’s Spanish Under-21 midfielder Esteban Granero has been reported this morning and there may be others in the pipeline. That may come in the form of the buying club offering the selling club any loan signing.
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Despite the millions in the game at the moment it would be morally wrong for clubs to spend so much with financial meltdown across Europe. I expect more wheeling and dealing that extravagent signings. Foreign signings don’t always adjust in their early careers and some could say the likes of Fernando Torres and Andy Carroll haven’t been successes since their January moves.
I personally think that once Premier League teams submit their 25 man squads at the beginning of the season, then they are only allowed to make transfers mid season if one of those players was injured long term like Jermaine Jenas and Nemanja Vidic. Not only would that stop clubs buying one or two players just to finish higher than a smaller squad who have over performed, it will also highlight which managers who take over from sacked ones can actually man manage and don’t just bring in new faces to change things.
We live in a real world which at times appears to exist outside of football. I think this window will see the two realities come back closer together.
Written by Wesley Hillier @www.armchairstato.blogspot.
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