UEFA Transfer Rules Impact on Clubs

And if a deal happens within 45 days of each other between two clubs,

permanent deals, Uefa would deem that to be a swap deal.

And when they deem that to be a swap deal,

that would basically mean that they can't immediately post the full profits from that sale.

Let me give you an example.

Club X sells to Club Y.

Then Club Y then buys from Club X.

But Club X cannot then, if it's within 45 days,

they cannot then post the full accounts and full profits from that deal.

Because Uefa in that time frame will feel that there is some sort of swap deal going on.

So they might have to amortise the amount of profit that they make from a particular deal over the length of a contract.

Villa, you would think, can't afford to do that because they've made such a humongous profit on the Morgan Rogers deal to Chelsea.

So if you look at it from the Villa perspective at the moment, they sold Morgan Rogers to

If they bought Nicholas Jackson, they will fall foul of this rule because it would be within 45 days.

Because if you waited 45 days after Morgan Rogers signed for Chelsea, it would be after the transfer window.

Villa can still do the deal.

They can still buy Nicholas Jackson,

but they won't get the full feel of that profit from the Morgan Rogers deal because of this Uefa rule.

Even if it's loads less money, you're saying, Susan? Yeah.

Is that very fair? Because it's the way that clubs have accounted for certain deals.

Because you know, there were question marks being put over certain deals between two clubs and you thought,

why is that player going there and this player going there? Why can't they just call it a swap deal?

But they don't want to call it a swap deal because it goes into separate accounts.

So the alternative is, well, why don't Aston Villa just try and loan Nicholas Jackson from Chelsea?

There's another rule. There's a Premier League rule.

You cannot loan one, more than one player from another Premier League club at any one time.

And what have Aston Villa just done?

They've loaned Alejandro Garnaccio from Chelsea with an option to buy purely because they knew they couldn't buy Alejandro Garnaccio right now because of the 45-day rule concerning Morgan Rogers.

So I'm not going to say that this deal cannot happen, but Aston Villa know that if they do pursue a deal for Nicholas Jackson in this transfer window,

there is a chance that they will fall foul of this UEFA 45-day transfer rule

and won't be able to make the most of the immediate profit that they got from the Morgan Rogers transfer.

Goodness me.

Well explained. Thank you for that, Darmes.