For the past two seasons, the window in England has closed the day before the new season has begun, at the beginning of August.

However, at a shareholders’ meeting on Thursday, it was decided by clubs to move the closing date back into line with deadlines across Europe.

The closing date this year will now be 5pm on Tuesday, September 1 – with the Monday being a Bank Holiday.

A Premier League statement read: “At a shareholders’ meeting today, Premier League clubs voted to adopt a change to the summer transfer window closing date for season 2020/21.

“This will move the closing date back to the traditional point at the end of August/early September.

“The 2020 closing date will therefore be 17:00 BST on 1 September (31 August 2020 being a UK Bank Holiday).

“Clubs agreed after discussing the topic at length at previous shareholders’ meetings.”

The Premier League have also announced the 2020/21 season will start on Saturday, August 8.

Players who reach the latter stages of Euro 2020 will therefore have only a short break before returning to club action.

The tournament, held across Europe this summer, will run from June 12 to July 12.

The decision to move the transfer window back will please many top-flight managers, including Jurgen Klopp.

The Liverpool manager had called for the windpow in England to realign with the rest of Europe’s top divisions.​

“I don’t care when it closes, I only think it must close at the same time,” Klopp said in August.

“When they spoke about ‘Let’s finish it before the season starts then everyone knows their squad’ – that’s a good idea. But then the rest didn’t do it and that makes no sense.

“Can somebody explain what is the benefit for the Premier League? We don’t really have a problem but for other teams, their key players are still on the market and everything can happen.”

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