WSFFL - Close Season Transfer Procedures

This seems a good a place as any to post this sort of thing if we lose our e-mails...

Relegated Players

You have until 1 June to tell me if you would like to retain any of your relegated players. After this date I will remove them from your squads and credit your bank balances with half their value. If by some miracle they are picked up by a Premier League club over the summer the manager in question will be given first refusal to take that player back for the amount of compensation they received. Their value in the game will be as it was before relegation.

If you think the player concerned may be in for a big money move you may want to retain him. I can't think of many other reasons for doing so.

This system is much easier for me to employ than any sort of piecemeal dumping through the summer. If you are thinking of hanging on in case they come back please think again. There is a reason why they've been relegated.

The Pool

Purchases - The pool will shut for purchases when the last games of the season kick-off. It will not re-open until after the pre-season auction.

Dumps - The pool stays open for you to dump players. Once again I will give you a player dump 'amnesty' until 30 June. This will give you time to work out whether any of your players are retiring, leaving on frees, returning after loan etc. and give you the opportunity to cash in. After this date, if I contact you before you get in touch with me you could lose players in this situation for nothing. Sorry, but them's the rules! If you dump any players from non-relegated teams (contract expired, loanees, that sort of thing) you won't be offered them under the 'first refusal' rule. They'll go into the 'summer pool' and under the hammer at the August auction.

Undisclosed Fees

As usual SoccerNet will be the source for transfer fees throughout the close season. In the situation of an 'Undisclosed' fee being recorded you will be offered what you paid for the player. If you would like to query an undisclosed fee please send me links to two reputable websites transfer centres or news stories which agree on a fee. I will not accept newspaper cuttings, fan sites or collaboration sites such as Wikipedia that can be easily altered.

Private Deals

In the rare event that you want to transfer between clubs please get on with it and let me know.