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The transfer window opens the day after a league finishes its playing season, and a club in that league can sign players as soon as it opens. Please see Football League website: Rules: Section 1 - General Definitions:
and Section 6 - Players Rule 41.6.2
I've used links to the FL rules because they're on an ordinary webpage rather than the PL's 100s of pages of handbook, but for completeness, the Premier League handbook 2014/15 Section A.1.145 page 86 of a very large PDF file defines season as
and Rule V.1 page 207 defines the summer transfer window as
There is no requirement to wait until 1 July. If there was, it would appear in the rules. Norwich's season ended after the play-off final, so the transfer window is open, and if the transfer window is open, they can sign Mr Dorrans. Struway2 ( talk) 21:13, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Struway2: The transfer windwow does not open officially until 1 July so the transfer cannot go through until then
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The transfer window opens the day after a league finishes its playing season, and a club in that league can sign players as soon as it opens. Please see Football League website: Rules: Section 1 - General Definitions:
and Section 6 - Players Rule 41.6.2
I've used links to the FL rules because they're on an ordinary webpage rather than the PL's 100s of pages of handbook, but for completeness, the Premier League handbook 2014/15 Section A.1.145 page 86 of a very large PDF file defines season as
and Rule V.1 page 207 defines the summer transfer window as
There is no requirement to wait until 1 July. If there was, it would appear in the rules. Norwich's season ended after the play-off final, so the transfer window is open, and if the transfer window is open, they can sign Mr Dorrans. Struway2 ( talk) 21:13, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Struway2: The transfer windwow does not open officially until 1 July so the transfer cannot go through until then