A vote will take place on 7 September to ensure the transfer window closes before the next season begins.

English Football League and Premier League clubs are expected to vote for the transfer window to be closed before the end of next season, reports the BBC.

As it currently stands, the transfer window doesn’t shut until 31 August, which means we have three weeks of Premier League football going on while clubs are busy trying to offload and sign new players.

The vote will apparently take place among Premier League shareholders on 7 September and most clubs appear to be in favour of the change, which tends to add stress to managers when they should be concentrating on football.

“An earlier transfer deadline day would have helped us this year,” said Jurgen Klopp.

“In general, it makes sense that when the season starts that the planning is over.”

Moving it from July/August to June/July, when club football isn’t on at all, would be a sensible move and would mean it could last for the same duration. It just wouldn’t overlap with fixtures.

While the ruling wouldn’t affect the January transfer window, Arsene Wenger has always been in favour of scrapping that one completely as he believes it just gets in the way. He would rather just improve the players he has rather than buy new ones during a period that’s typically congested with fixtures. Plus, a lot of players are cup-tied at this point.

“I do not like the January window. It seems to be more about players who might come in other than the ones you already have,” he said back in 2009.

“It is not a great help. Some players are cup tied and cannot play certain competitions. If a player moves to another Premier League club, then why should he not be cup-tied in the Premier League [like he would be in Europe]?”