Blatter Considers Transfer Window For Coaches
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter has expressed support for the idea of imposing a transfer window on managers to restrict them from between clubs at will.
The great man is unhappy with the way Juande Ramos recently left Sevilla to join Tottenham Hotspur, and also with Ronald Koeman's sudden departure from PSV Eindhoven to Valencia.
Blatter believes managers should be subject to the same restrictions that apply to the movement of players, who can only change clubs in January and during the summer.
"We will try to extend the rule that is valid for players to coaches," Blatter told the Daily Telegraph.
A similar idea was proposed by Stuart Pearce when he was manager of Manchester City last season, although Pearce's motivation was to prevent managers from being sacked outside of an agreed window.
Poor Pearce lost his job at the end of the campaign. -
Allardyce opposes manager window
Sam Allardyce has dismissed Fifa president Sepp Blatter's proposal for a managerial transfer window.
The Newcastle boss has warned that a system for managers similar to the one which governs the movement of players would bring meltdown to football.
"The transfer window is completely flawed, as far as I am concerned, and I have always said that right from the very start," he said.
"To have a managers' window would cause even bigger chaos."
"It creates inflation, it creates mayhem and it puts you in a hugely difficult position.
"People just need to show a bit more faith and a bit more patience in the managers they ultimately choose in the first place themselves and give them the time they need to do the job and not to knee-jerk react.
"They need to be brave and true to themselves."