Hull Chief Joins Spurs Boss Ramos In Calling For Transfer Window Changes

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Hull City chairman Paul Duffen has joined Tottenham Hotspur boss boss Juande Ramos in calling for changes in the transfer system.

Duffen has demanded a change to the way the Premier League operates the transfer window, having missed out on Manchester United striker Fraizer Campbell, who left Old Trafford for White Hart Lane as part of the Dimitar Berbatov deal.

Duffen told BBC Look North: “I, like most people, think that the window is a completely artificial device.

“It doesn't do anything productive
for football. It leads to over-inflated prices being paid on the last day.

“The sooner we get away from it the better but we have to deal with what we've got.”

Duffen then revealed that he would be bringing this up at the next shareholders meeting of the Premier League on Thursday.

“I'm certainly going to be lobbying to change this rule,” he said.

“We've had it for six years now which doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean we have to keep it, and I think we should try very hard to get rid of it.”

Ironically, Ramos agrees with Duffen, even though Spurs were the beneficiaries it appears of the workings of the transfer window this time, having snatched 20-year-old Campbell from under the nose of Hull.

With Ramos bemused by the fact that the window remains open once the Premiership season has begun, which the Spaniard insists affects the players. Berbatov, probably being his case in point.

“The league started on 16th August, but the window does not shut until 1st September,” Ramos is quoted as telling the Press Association.

“You play three games before it shuts while players are uncertain where they are going to be playing and team-mates are thinking which players will go and who will come in.

“That means they are not fully concentrated on their work.”

“I would prefer it that, once the league has started, you don't have a player playing for one team one week and playing for another the next.”