Premiership/Changes in transfer market: With two big changes expected to the transfer system over the next couple of days Premiership clubs have held off from wheeling and dealing. But tomorrow the market should receive a helpful stimulus.

By the time the Premier League's summer meeting finishes, players in Britain ought to be more affordable and a new market is likely to have opened.

Currently deals between Premiership clubs must be paid in full within 12 months, usually in two tranches, but the signs are that the chairmen will allow top-flight transfer fees to be paid over the length of a player's contract. They are also set to approve loans between Premiership clubs for the first time.

The change to payments, initially proposed a year ago, would offer particular benefits. English clubs have long been able to find such helpful terms abroad, and mirroring those should ensure more money flows into domestic coffers during a difficult financial period.

Of course plenty of foreign players will still arrive and the change would not bring an immediate flood of domestic moves. Internationals are still being played, options are being considered.

Yet the alterations would boost the market. Why would any club have offered to pay a Premiership rival £6 million for a player over the course of the next year yesterday when by Saturday they might be able to spread that over a period four times as long?

Less financially threatening would be dipping into a new Premier League loan system.

There is, though, much negotiating to be done. How many players could a club take on loan in any season, how many at once and how many from one club?

And, crucially, will the borrowing club have to pay the player's wages in full?