EPL transfer window extended beyond start of season again

Tottenham’s Toby Alderweireld, Davinson Sanchez and Serge Aurier , from left to right, celebrate at the end of the English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Ian Walton)

LONDON — English Premier League clubs will be allowed to sign players again in the summer transfer window after the season has started.

Clubs decided at a meeting on Thursday that the trading period should end at 5 p.m. local time (1600 GMT) on Sept. 1 — around three weeks after the start of the season.

For the last two seasons, Premier League clubs had to make their signings before the season began.

The clubs reversed their original decision to align with the rest of Europe again.