Ventura wants transfer market closed before season starts

By Daily Sports on August 29, 2017

Italy coach Giampiero Ventura believes that the transfer market should close before the start of the season.

Ventura said on Monday that uncertainty over the situation of a number of players had made it difficult for him to pick the squad for Saturday's World Cup qualifying showdown away to Spain, their most important match since Euro 2016.

"There are players in the middle of negotiations who have not played, or others who have changed teams and have only played a few minutes and it's the national team which pays the price," the veteran coach told reporters.

"It would be better if the players I select were playing all the time, but there's nothing we can do."

He said it was a contradiction that the transfer window around Europe ended at the end of August when the season was already two or three weeks old.

"The market should close 24 hours before the start of the season, I've always said that," he said.

"This is a result of the transfer window still being open, which means you have to live with certain situations."

Spain and Italy are level on 16 points at the top of Group G although Spain have the better goal difference.

Only the winners qualify directly for Russia next year while the best eight runners-up in the nine European groups go into two-leg playoffs.

Italy have not won in Spain since 1949 - although that did not worry Ventura.

"We'll take the game to Spain and try to win," he said. "If the last time Italy won in Spain was 70 years ago, it's clear that there’s been a problem. But it also means that if we win, we will have done something great."

•Photo shows Italy coach, Giampiero Ventura.

Source Daily Sports

Posted August 29, 2017


 

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