CLARETS chairman Barry Kilby has not heard "one good reason" for the introduction of a transfer window in the English game.

"I just can't think what the advantage would be for English football to go down this route," said Kilby.

He is backing the Football League's decision to oppose any enforcement of a system that has been used on the continent for a number of years.

"I can understand the international implications and the desire to have everyone in the same community working within the one system.

"But when it comes to transfers within the domestic game, I can't see why it should be imposed."

The two transfer windows would exist in the summer, ending at the start of September, and then there would be another month in the winter, probably January, when deals would be allowed to take place between clubs.

The Premier League was involved in the negotiations that took place in Switzerland this week and final approval is expected to be given by the executive committee next week.

Although the Football League was not involved they will have little option but to follow suit, despite immediately making their opposition felt.

But the only affects that Kilby can foresee would be detrimental ones and he insisted: "It is very hard to get a positive argument together. What are UEFA trying to achieve?

"The first thing that I can see happening is that the cost of players will go up. You are going to have clubs put in a position where they need to strengthen and they are going to realise it is going to be their last chance to buy.

"Certainly at this club we like to open negotiations on a long term basis but that will be a lot harder when you are working with a deadline. "All you are going to get is the frenzied transfer activity that you get in Italy when a window is open.

"The movement of players will be very badly restricted and I just can't understand why."

Burnley already has one of the most stable squads in the country, Stan Ternent not being one of the major movers in the transfer market and certainly not being a panic buyer.

But already this season he has sold John Mullin to Rotherham and bought Tony Grant from Manchester City while only this week Andy Payton went out on loan to Blackpool.

"This is just hindering the market place and the only advantage I can see is that it will make life nice and easy for the bureaucrats."

UEFA committee chairman Pedro Tomas Marques, of Spain, said: "This is a historic agreement which, for the first time, should give us harmonised transfer periods in European professional football. It should help provide increased stability in the game.