Blatter eyes manager window

12 April 2012

FIFA president Sepp Blatter is in favour of restricting managers from changing clubs outside transfer windows.

Blatter is believed to be unhappy with the way Juande Ramos recently left Sevilla to join Tottenham and Ronald Koeman's sudden departure from Ajax to Valencia.

Blatter believes managers should be subject to the same restrictions that govern the movement of players, who can only switch clubs in January and during the summer. "We will try to extend the rule that is valid for players to coaches," he said in the Daily Telegraph.

A similar idea was proposed by Stuart Pearce when he was in charge of Manchester City last season, although his aim was to prevent managers being sacked outside of an agreed window.

Ironically, he lost his job at the end of the campaign.

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