When summer transfer window reopens as first deadline for Club World Cup passes

The 2025 summer transfer window has shut for six days because of the Club World Cup and Premier League rules, with deadline day also set for a minor change on September 1

The transfer window has shut. Fear not, though, it is only for six days.

A short pause is a result of the Club World Cup, which kicks off in the early hours of Sunday morning, with the initial registration period – dating back to June 1 – allowing the clubs involved in the new tournament a chance to complete moves.

That means Trent Alexander-Arnold is available for Real Madrid, with Liverpool earning £10m by allowing him to go a month before the end of his contract at Anfield, Liam Delap can play for Chelsea after arriving from Ipswich Town and Rayan Ait Nouri will feature for Manchester City following his signing from Wolves.

Other teams have availed of the early start too with Liverpool completing a move for Jeremie Frimpong and Manchester United landing Matheus Cunha.

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But the reason for its closure is actually down to Premier League regulations which stipulate that the summer transfer window must open “at midnight on the date 12 weeks prior to the date on which it is to conclude.”

Which means moves can be registered again from midnight Monday until September 1.

But there is one other twist – deadline day will come to an end at 7pm rather than the 11pm everyone has become accustomed to for several years.

That is to spare club officials and agents from working into the early hours of the morning to complete late moves, submit deal sheets and the like.

Chelsea and Manchester City are the Premier League’s two representatives in the controversial Club World Cup, with City defender Manuel Akanji among those already airing grievances around having to participate in the competition.

“I have been a strong critic of this competition for some time now,” Akanji said while on international duty with Switzerland last week. “We players would love to have some holidays, and some time for our bodies to rest,”

But with a $1bn prize pool, meaning the eventual victors can take home the equivalent of winning the Champions League while playing fewer than half the games, has drawn clubs towards competing.

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