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Its not about being poached its about having to pay higher prices for targets. The seller knows if you cant get a deal with an English club you can always sell continental.
I have to disagree. We were screwed around time and again by losing players to PL rivals after the season started to the point of almost accepting that we write off August and start proper in Sept. Players going on strike and handing in a transfer request during pre-season is one thing but while you have important matches to play it completely disrupts the team.Tbf it was us that decide to close early.
Should have just kept it at en august
I have to disagree. We were screwed around time and again by losing players to PL rivals after the season started to the point of almost accepting that we write off August and start proper in Sept. Players going on strike and handing in a transfer request during pre-season is one thing but while you have important matches to play it completely disrupts the team.
Yes we can always lose a player internationally but we have a choice whether to sell or not.
And whilst I can see where you are coming from with losing out on a player and the selling club get a second bite of the cherry to sell cheaper in Europe. I don't actually think it will be that much of an issue as the selling club want to get the most money they can. You could argue that it could actually work in our favour forcing them to sell to us and even reduce their price to guarantee the riches of a PL team in case they don't get any better offer later.
All the big 5 (except La Liga) made a big deal of saying how they wanted the window to close earlier, then proceeded to do fuck all to bring the windows in line.