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Graham Westley: Transfer window system is just not for me…

Transfer windows are a football anomaly that I really don’t like – two key elements in sport ought to be skill and equitability.

By Graham Westley

Transfer windows are a football anomaly that I really don’t like - two key elements in sport ought to be skill and equitability.
The idea of having a transfer window introduces a huge slice of luck into the equation that undermines things.
Industry and commerce don’t restrict their participants’ ability to make the right moves for personnel at the right times.
They don’t restrict the purchase and sale of assets.
Crystal ball gazing
They’d never think of doing so.
Organisations ought to be free to do what they need to do when they need to do it.
But it is what it is.
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