The Premier League’s chairman, Richard Scudamore, pointed out that the issue over the transfer window closure has been a subject of fierce debate every year since it was introduced in 2002 in an attempt to regulate player and agent power. So it should come as no surprise that, after many hours of wrangling, an amendment was finally passed on Thursday and the window will now shut before the start of the season.
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