Noble/Cooper

[arnapie]

I thought they had to be free agents at the time of the transfer window closing though?

Transfer window would be pointless otherwise.

Blackpool signed this guy yesterday - free agent

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📝 Blackpool confirm signing of Jay Spearing on a deal until the end of the season.

[purelybenjamin]

Blackpool signed this guy yesterday - free agent

Blackpool FC‏Verified account @BlackpoolFC 17h17 hours ago
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📝 Blackpool confirm signing of Jay Spearing on a deal until the end of the season.

He was a free agent at the time the transfer window closed though. If Noble's contract was terminated today for instance we would be able to sign him but wouldn't be able to play him until Jan.

See Dean Cox example from last season (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37351654).

We signed Shola after the window closed last year, but could play him because he was a free agent before the window closed (like Spearing).

Oh, and I wouldn't want Noble back even if he paid us. The reaction to Swindon's second goal and his lack of could-be-arsedness to try and stop the shot coming in showed me enough to know that he's the same player that left us. He's just had a great year playing in the National League without ever having had to try hard enough to get wound up.