GETTY Cases like Virgil van Dijk will be sorted before the season starts, under new rules A majority of top-flight clubs are pushing for the summer window to shut before the start of the season and will vote on the proposal next month. They are pushing for a new deadline to prevent the disruption caused by managers buying players when the season is already under way. But the change would not stop foreign clubs from swooping for Premier League players, raising the prospect of domestic clubs being left in the lurch. Watford are understood to be among those clubs who oppose a change in the rules, which will be voted on at a meeting in London on September 7. But it emerged yesterday that the...
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