Oxlade-Chamberlain played against Liverpool four days before he joined them

The president of Uefa has given his backing to a shorter summer transfer window.

The 20 Premier League chairmen will vote tomorrow on closing the transfer window before the start of the domestic season and supporters of the change are confident of success. Liverpool’s steadfast refusal to sell Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona has convinced some doubters that the Premier League can go it alone from the rest of Europe.

Closing the window before the start of the domestic season would also avoid the situation that arose when Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain played in Arsenal’s 4-0 defeat away to Liverpool and then joined the Merseyside club less than a week later.

Asked about his view on the transfer window being shortened, Aleksander Ceferin, the head of Uefa, said