Maybe I'm a miserable sod, but I've never really liked the transfer windows - particularly deadline day.

Not only are there a ridiculus amount of rumours linking seemingly every player with ten dozen clubs, but unless you've got money to burn like Manchester City and Queens Park Rangers, the window dosen't really help you. The windows have severely damaged the smaller clubs.

Before the transfer window was introduced in England back in 2002, you could do deals all year round. That meant that there was nothing like the cashflow concerns for smaller clubs now. If a club was struggling to pay its monthly wages the chairman could pick up the phone, sell a player for x number of pounds and that was everyone paid for another month. OK, it might have been unsettling for fans and players alike but at the time we didnt know any different, and it worked.

Now, club's have to rush deals through, and it's even more difficult to complete deals these days what with all the add on fees and bonuses and other negotiations that agents have brought to the party. But it's the way SKY build it up that really annoys me.

They build up deadline day in January as the day that makes or breaks a club's season depending on weather or not they do the business that they need to do. We all know that the season isn't over by a long shot on February 1st, but the worrying thing is people actually buy what SKY tells them! They really do believe that if their club dosen't sign anybody, thats their season finished! Preposterous.

I suppose I could be viewed as thinking this because I'm a Notts County fan, as we very rarely do any deadline day business. Yet our fans demand we sign someone and seem to assume we're doomed to failiure if we dont. Yes, we do need a striker and it'd be nice to get one but whats more important? Signing a 30 goal a season striker or having a football club to go and watch every Saturday? Because in our case it is pretty much a case of one or the other. We're not loaded, we dont have money to throw about but fans still complain when we dont sign Jonathan Forte or Lloyd Sam or David McGoldrick. I know I'm repeating myself but I really dont think that the fact we're not loaded has sunk in with some of our fans. They expect far too much.

It is frustrating when we don't get players especially when they've been training with us, but to be honest if a player wants to go to another club because they're offering him more money, let him. I'd rather not have a player playing for our club who only joined because we offered him the most money.

I highly doubt we'll bring in anyone before tonights 11PM deadline, I think there's more chance of us bringing in someone on loan like we did last season. But is it really such a bad thing if we dont sign anyone on deadline day? It's hardly the end of our season.

Transfer window only helps clubs who are loaded and can throw money at whatever problems they have - QPR and Newcastle for example. But you very rarely see any clubs bringing in a big name star in January. Nobody wants to sell their strikers if they're scoring plenty of goals so I dont see why people get so angry when we don't bring anyone in.

In fact even when they do, it dosen't always work out, I dont even need to name names.

I'll be glad when the window ends, SKY goes back to talking about football rather than rumours, and everyone stops panicking about their players being linked with half the football league,

Then again, maybe it's just me being a miserable sod