IT’S over, finally the British transfer window has closed and football fans can go back to focusing on what really matters, the actual game.

Newspapers will stop making up stories about players joining a club when there is no source and might actually write stories about more pressing issues, like the importance of grassroots football or the amount tickets cost for fans, especially for the away supporters.

The money that has been thrown about over the summer on players has once again defied logic and belief. Every year, the amount clubs spend rises and with the new television deal it has meant teams can just keep blowing huge sums of cash on players.

But it seems this year, there has been growing concern about the timing of the window and when it should close. Fans, pundits and clubs have seemingly given up being angry with the tens of millions being spent on average Joes.

The battle has now turned to moving the closing date of the window to before the start of the season. Keeping it open these extra few weeks seems to cause disruption as managers don’t know who will be around for the rest of the season and players don’t know where their future lies.

At any moment they could be uprooted across the country, or abroad, and made to play for a team that they don’t really want to but have no choice.

I don’t have much sympathy for the players as it’s not like they are being made redundant. They are often given pay rises to go play for another club and while they are waiting to move from one luxurious mansion to another they are “forced” to stay in a five-star hotel which is often paid for by the club.

If someone was to offer me £60,000 a week to kick a ball I don’t think I would be complaining about what part of the country it is in.

But I do think about the children. How often are some kids being moved school? Unable to forge lasting friendships because at any moment their dad has to leave Sunderland to go to Bournemouth. 

These kids may live privileged lives but constantly moving every few years must be difficult.

However, this is about the players and clubs and German clubs seem to be the angriest about the time and date of the closing of the window. They make a valid point. 

You spend all summer working with a set of players, expecting them to be there for the season. The season starts, a particular player is impressive and then bang, a big club strolls in with a cheque for said player and you lose a key component of your squad.

Replacing him is hard because you weren’t expecting to be delving into the market so late in the window and before you know it, ambitions of a successful season are lowered.

Borussia Dortmund’s sporting director Hans Joachim Watzke is proposing the window be shut on August 1 and I agree. It means after matches, us journalists aren’t asking if a manager is going to sign player A or if their star player is about to be sold because he liked a tweet on Twitter.

We can focus on what happened in the previous 90 minutes.

Watzke said: “It really wrangles with me. We really need to close the transfer window on August 1.

“The biggest clubs get to the end of August with 20, 30, 40 or 50 million euro and upset the market. Many coachs ask why they bother carrying out pre-season when they know they may lose four or five players and receive new signings.”

The whole system needs an overhaul. It would stop the David de Gea debacle from happening and Sky Sports making a whole day out of nothing.

It would prevent Chelsea from unsettling Everton’s John Stones to the point where the youngster attempted to force through a move which was rejected by the club.

Stones now has to spend a minimum of four months playing in front of a group of people who know that he wants out. It’s ridiculous.

Transfers are becoming tedious and there is a reason why the Morning Star sports pages ignores this part of football during the summer.

You never know what to trust and there are more important sport stories to report on than Manchester United splashing the cash on a teenager.

Every so often the paper will run a transfer story but for the most part, there are more pressing matters in the world of sport.

The stories will keep appearing over the next few weeks, especially as the January window opens.

Though the amount of deals in the winter window is significantly fewer, the same disruption applies.

If the league introduced a winter break, which teams have been asking for for the last few years, then it would make sense to move the window to then.

It is common sense to have teams sorting out transfers when there is no football going on. 

Once the season starts, or the mid-season break is over, everyone can concentrate on trying to earn three points, while the space in newspapers can be filled with actual stories rather than the latest gossip. 

One can dream.