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Football Daily | Why the transfer window is actually a large collection of different windows

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! The transfer window isn’t an actual window, of course. In reality, it’s a large collection of different windows, with each club having one of their own, through which they peer longingly, occasionally flinging large quantities of cash money out of them like half-cut sailors on a ship coming into dock, and they’re all in various states of disrepair. For example, Tott

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27 Aug 2026, 16:31 UTC
Last checked
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Recorded article metadata

Publisher
The Guardian
Country
England / United Kingdom
Source published
27 Aug 2026, 14:50 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Scott Murray
Section
Transfer window
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Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! The transfer window isn’t an actual window, of course. In reality, it’s a large collection of different windows, with each club having one of their own, through which they peer longingly, occasionally flinging large quantities of cash money out of them like half-cut sailors on a ship coming into dock, and they’re all in various states of disrepair. For example, Tott
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    Football Daily | Why the transfer window is actually a large collection of different windows

    Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! The transfer window isn’t an actual window, of course. In reality, it’s a large collection of different windows, with each club having one of their own, through which they peer longingly, occasionally flinging large quantities of cash money out of them like half-cut sailors on a ship coming into dock, and they’re all in various states of disrepair. For example, Tott

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  • publisher category Football rss-category
  • publisher category Nottingham Forest rss-category
  • publisher category Sport rss-category
  • publisher category Transfer window rss-category
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#3204
Observed
27 Aug 2026, 16:31 UTC
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489,327 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt