{"id":450504,"date":"2026-02-03T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/450504\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:00:07","slug":"transfer-deadline-day-record-low-deals-completed-on-quiet-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/450504\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer deadline day: Record low deals completed on quiet day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A record \u00a33.1bn was spent by Premier League clubs in the summer &#8211; significantly more than in the winter window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The figure of \u00a3397m for this window isn&#8217;t hugely down on previous winters, with January always more low key than the summer as it is a notoriously difficult time for clubs to recruit effectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is even harder to do that on deadline day, but this one was particularly quiet, for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The big outlay last summer will be one, while another could relate to a new system of Financial Fair Play (FFP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5yd8g9vyleo\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that will come in from next season.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Squad Cost Ratio (SCR) will replace Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR), meaning overall squad costs in the Premier League from 2026-27 will have to be limited to 85% of a club&#8217;s revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s always going to be a degree of anxiety as to keeping your financial house in order ahead of a far more active market [the summer window],&#8221; Paul Macdonald of FootballTransfers.com said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Clubs wanted to ensure they were in a compliant position rather than having an additional headache of being hamstrung under the new rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A record \u00a33.1bn was spent by Premier League clubs in the summer &#8211; significantly more than in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-450504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}