[Sir Megson]

Sir Megson, the January 'Window' does prevent wealthier clubs of unfairly buying their way out of trouble if they find themselves at the lower end of the Premiership league table condemning less wealthy clubs, who were unable to compete, to Premiership oblivion.

Clubs are allowed to discuss and agree terms when the windows aren't open though, it's movement and registration of players is what's affected by the transfer window. Therefore the discussions on transfers are generally close to these windows and it's a rare exception when players and clubs agree terms way in advance of the window opening. Agents know that's when the prices increase.

The issue I have with transfer windows is that by condensing the period of time that players are allowed to move, it creates an environment whereby any agent who knows what he is doing will tell his player to bide his time and wait for the best offer once clubs are desperate to do business towards the end of the window. This leads to bidding wars and predictably the club with the deepest pockets wins.

We've been guilty of a panic buy or two over the past few years because of this. Anichebe being the first that springs to mind. Deal was something in the region of £6m for a bloke that spent most of his time at the club crumbling like a biscuit that had been dunked for too long and he lived on our treatment table.

Everton must have been loffin all the way to the bank!