TICKET. Mercato: an unstable championship, necessarily …. Sport

In any situation, instability is a danger. For oneself, as for others, being unstable is not viable. The football is no exception to this rule, and the cycle pompously baptized “mercato”, the market in Italian, has a lot to do with it.

Obviously, with this period of transactions which ended on the evening of October 5, 46 days after the start of its championship, French football is emerging from an unstable period. How to build a team, retain an audience, move forward in a coherent way in these conditions for the clubs and their coaches?

This was already the case in previous years, minus the pandemic break. And it’s the same for all countries, and it doesn’t date from the day before yesterday, either. Certainly.

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The hunt for “miracle recruits”

Last year, England made a proposal, hit in the corner of common sense: to stop the transfer window the day before the first day of the championship. All over. We start the season with a group and we make our team. Period. But no country followed. And even less FIFA or UEFA, so quick to invent competitions or to authorize five changes in a match for the whole season, a rather absurd measure which also contributes to the instability of the teams (Sunday, the coaches of Brest and Rennes only made two changes …)

So for lack of change, the clubs continued to chase “miracle recruits” until last night, even if it means changing their type team at the last minute. The tassel of the 2020 transfer window is undoubtedly returning to Dijon, who let go his goalkeeper n ° 2 after three days, then his n ° 1 two days later, to go and engage in disaster the goalkeeper of Niort (Ligue 2). Lyon were not sure to keep their major players who were all waiting for a departure and therefore played for a month with uncertain support. The Paris SG or Stade Rennais, eager to spend before the bell, also bet at the last moment, even if they followed the “files” for some time.

Three months, and it starts again …

It’s not hard to imagine that it would have been better for everyone to wrap up before the start of the competition, and not during. Clubs and players’ agents could just as easily have upped the ante until the deadline, since that is their game.

This transfer window is over, is there room for stability? Not for long, because the winter transfer window begins in three months and the circus will start again. Until when ?

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