Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says he wants to see the January transfer window scrapped.
Arsenal boss not happy with January deals
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says he wants to see the January transfer window scrapped.
The Gunners boss is not happy with how the one-month window works and feels it has an adverse effect on the whole game.
And he would welcome its removal completely as he does not see it serving any benefit to the clubs involved.
"I am for scrapping the January transfer window," he said.
"Either you leave it completely open or you close it completely, but now it's in between where everybody becomes nervous in November until the end of January.
"It not only makes the manager's job harder but it's harder for the club as well.
"Even for the players, too, because this way it means at the start of the season you can have players saying, 'If I don't play, maybe I will leave in January'.
"So they are already less committed to the cause. It gives them an opening.
"We have gone from a period where you knew if you didn't play you had to be committed.
"When we played we had to be committed to a club for your whole life.
"Maybe it wasn't right but if you didn't play you had no other option but to fight for a place.
Difficult
"Now we're in a position where the players can have a quick and easy way out if it is difficult. When I arrived in England, the window was open until the end of March.
"It's harder to do deals in January because, if you're buying a player who is available because he isn't playing, then in the Premier League the level is so high now it takes that player three, four months to adjust.
"Most of the time, a player doesn't leave in the middle of the season unless it's a massive club who comes in and he plays at a small club."
