betting-deals.com

FA and Fifa to discuss extending emergency loans for extra season

18th March 2015

FA and Fifa to discuss extending emergency loans for extra season The Football Association will talk to Fifa this week about extending the emergency loan system which many lower league clubs believe is vital to their existence. World governing body Fifa plans to end the system, which allows clubs to sign players outside of the two transfer windows, at the end of this season. The FA hopes to persuade Fifa to extend emergency loans to the end of 2015-16. Nearly 350 players have already been signed on emergency loan this season. Only three of the 72 Football League clubs - Blackburn, Leeds and Reading - have not used the system so far. It was introduced to help ease financial pressure on lower division clubs with smaller squads. The FA has put forward a motion to raise and discuss the issue at Fifas Executive Committee meeting, which begins in Zurich on Thursday. It is hoped English clubs will be given an extra season to prepare for an eventual transfer system without emergency loans. Fifa rejected a proposal to consider extending the emergency loan system on an ongoing basis at a previous meeting in December. It is thought it wants to end the arrangement in favour of a standardised system across its members. Fifa refused to say why it wants to outlaw emergency loans when asked for clarification by BBC Sport this week. Emergency loans allow Football League and Conference clubs to sign players for a maximum of 93 days in two periods outside of the international transfer windows. England Under-21s midfielder Ravel Morrison helped QPR win promotion to the Premier League after joining on emergency loan last season,scoring six goals in 15 league matches as they went up through the play-offs. This season, players were eligible to move between 8 September and 27 November, and again from 9 February until 26 March. All other transfers must be completed in two transfer windows, which take place during the summer and throughout January in English football. England is the only country which uses an emergency loan system source: www.bbc.co.uk

News item brought to you by Betting-Deals.com - © 2011