I am pretty sure there is a late deadline for free transfers - but would still need to fit within the 17 allotted non-HG slots...Is there a deadline for free agents to sign, or is it pretty much open season long?
I didn't believe there was a deadline, so long as you have sufficient space to register, and the player became a free agent prior to the end of the transfer window.
Our homegrown capacity was one of the problems in not getting another striker during the TW. Hence the attempt to borrow Welbeck. We haven't room for non HG players until we shed some. Next summer we will have 3 vacancies Kaboul, BAE and Friedel are all out of contract I believe. We can go for J-Rod in January so maybe that's why we only wanted a loan deal for DW.