Originally Posted by Season 74:
“No. Giaccherini's contract expires on the 13th, which is today. I have already contacted Yakutz about this as I still think it shouldn't have gone through as I see it as being today Giaccherini's contract had expired, but I think Yakutz was under the impression that today was the last day. Was just a bit of confusion as I originally thought it was Mondays the contracts expire, but you can clearly see on the site it says 13th for all those players.”
Yeah I can see that but I had assumed you kept it as Sunday every week as just a rough guide as it's quite a lot of effort to plan ahead to see what day every transfer window finishes on.
If the contract dates are taken literally how come we're allowed to play players who play in a Monday match when their contracts had already expired on the Sunday (or midnight saturday)? I'm assuming you need to still have them on contract going into the start of the matchday?
Pretty sure Funk must have interpretted it the same as me, not sure why else he would have released Nasri on Friday if he could still make a deal over the weekend.
edit - I agree that the deal shouldn't be allowed to go through though. On a normal matchday where the last match is at 4pm on a Sunday you don't get from 6pm till midnight to make deals for any players who's contract expiration was that day. Harsh on Yakutz though as it's not clear at all how the contracts would work on international breaks.
Last edited by fab cesc : 13-10-2013 at 22:34