| Premier League 26/27 summer transfer window dates 08:55 - Jun 7 with 999 views | unstableblue |
Premier League key transfer window dates/times:
Opening Date: Monday, June 15, 2026
Deadline Day: Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Closing Time: 23:00 BST (clubs have a two-hour grace period to submit paperwork if deals are agreed upon before the deadline)
So it starts a week tomorrow.
Wonder what the timing profile will be? Couple of early ones, long pause and then frenzy at the end!
Final of World Cup is 19th July; first game of season 22nd August. So two games and then it shuts.
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| Premier League 26/27 summer transfer window dates on 09:10 - Jun 7 with 919 views | BlueBoots |
Last Prem transfer window...
Hutchinson (30/06)
Johnson (01/07)
Greaves (12/07)
Delap (13/07)
Muric (17/07)
Townsend (01/08)
Szmodics (16/08)
Phillips (16/08)
Cajuste (19/08)
Clarke (24/08)
O'Shea (25/08)
Ogbene (28/08) |  |
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| Premier League 26/27 summer transfer window dates on 09:28 - Jun 7 with 862 views | unstableblue |
| Premier League 26/27 summer transfer window dates on 09:10 - Jun 7 by BlueBoots |
Last Prem transfer window...
Hutchinson (30/06)
Johnson (01/07)
Greaves (12/07)
Delap (13/07)
Muric (17/07)
Townsend (01/08)
Szmodics (16/08)
Phillips (16/08)
Cajuste (19/08)
Clarke (24/08)
O'Shea (25/08)
Ogbene (28/08) |
Top man Bloots
This is the data we need!
In summary looks like some clusters of buying, with typically 12 days between them, then two week splurge at the end.
Given the World Cup I expect to be even more back loaded this time. Maybe any championship raiding at the start.
On a related note and looking at your list, there is a school of thought that “ Roughly half of all football signings fail to deliver the expected value.” That feel right to me.
Indeed I’ve seen the scale below for Premier League clubs on a range of expected % of signings that deliver, when you rate them. And I’ve put your list of Town players against them (with the prem season in mind):
- clear success (30-45%) - Hutchinson, Delap,
- mixed/neutral (20-30%) - Greaves, Johnson, Townsend, Szmodics, OShea
- clear failure (35-50%) - Muric, Phillips, Cajuste, Clarke, Ogbene
Bit harsh?
But we’ll need to up our success rate this window. Sunderland must be well over 50% for the last window. Which is rare, especially given the volume. [Post edited 7 Jun 9:31]
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| Premier League 26/27 summer transfer window dates on 09:49 - Jun 7 with 776 views | Axeldalai_lama |
| Premier League 26/27 summer transfer window dates on 09:28 - Jun 7 by unstableblue |
Top man Bloots
This is the data we need!
In summary looks like some clusters of buying, with typically 12 days between them, then two week splurge at the end.
Given the World Cup I expect to be even more back loaded this time. Maybe any championship raiding at the start.
On a related note and looking at your list, there is a school of thought that “ Roughly half of all football signings fail to deliver the expected value.” That feel right to me.
Indeed I’ve seen the scale below for Premier League clubs on a range of expected % of signings that deliver, when you rate them. And I’ve put your list of Town players against them (with the prem season in mind):
- clear success (30-45%) - Hutchinson, Delap,
- mixed/neutral (20-30%) - Greaves, Johnson, Townsend, Szmodics, OShea
- clear failure (35-50%) - Muric, Phillips, Cajuste, Clarke, Ogbene
Bit harsh?
But we’ll need to up our success rate this window. Sunderland must be well over 50% for the last window. Which is rare, especially given the volume. [Post edited 7 Jun 9:31]
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I think that hits the nail on the head. The promoted clubs need a higher percentage of successes than those already in the premier league. Broadly speaking. All premier teams have a few successful players from each window to build a better squad over time. The new teams have to do it in one hit.
Equally it doesn't need every last one to be amazing. I wonder if, say, Muric and Phillips, maybe greaves had been as successful as Delap and Hutch, whether that would have shifted the dial to a larger extent. Big decisions, smallish margins. But has to be more than two to have any chance. |  | | |
| Step forward Mick Court on 10:06 - Jun 7 with 714 views | unstableblue |
| Premier League 26/27 summer transfer window dates on 09:49 - Jun 7 by Axeldalai_lama |
I think that hits the nail on the head. The promoted clubs need a higher percentage of successes than those already in the premier league. Broadly speaking. All premier teams have a few successful players from each window to build a better squad over time. The new teams have to do it in one hit.
Equally it doesn't need every last one to be amazing. I wonder if, say, Muric and Phillips, maybe greaves had been as successful as Delap and Hutch, whether that would have shifted the dial to a larger extent. Big decisions, smallish margins. But has to be more than two to have any chance. |
Good points AxelD
As you state the promoted clubs require a higher % than the established clubs in Prem.
At the extremes are Brighton and Brentford, very strong backroom technical teams, remarkable recruitment that’s been incrementally building quality - so they don’t need big injections like us. And of course in the case of these two clubs the ability to generate huge transfer fees and go and get the very best of emerging talent.
We went up too quickly last time. Didn’t have the structures to get more than two real successes (Omari obviously had already been with us, but that was a big fee and a coup).
Step forward Mick Court our Director of Recruitment - he’s been with us a year now, will be on a serious package, and having been Technical Chief Scout at Man U for 6 years and before that Man U Head of Recruitment Perfmance Analysis he has pedigree… and was surely known of and approved of by McKenna??
This is surely the window for him to put down his marker? And to throw the net internationally - and increase our % success rate on new signings. Think we’ll see a different profile of player.
No pressure then?! [Post edited 7 Jun 10:20]
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| Premier League 26/27 summer transfer window dates on 18:06 - Jun 7 with 419 views | armchaircritic59 |
World Cup should only delay a potential signing if it involves a player actually there I would have thought. |  | | |
| Premier League 26/27 summer transfer window dates on 20:25 - Jun 7 with 280 views | unstableblue |
| Premier League 26/27 summer transfer window dates on 18:06 - Jun 7 by armchaircritic59 |
World Cup should only delay a potential signing if it involves a player actually there I would have thought. |
Agreed.
As per discussion further down the thread they’ll be waves of purchasing through the window, with perhaps Champ players at the start. Azeez is not at World Cup as Nigeria didn’t make it, for example.
With the transfer window there’s a lot dominoes to fall as clubs buy, then allow players to leave who are surplus… World Cup will definitely play a factor in that chain | |
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