Sheffield United boss Kevin Blackwell has added to the growing number of managers calling for an end to the transfer window.

The Blades lost midfielder Michael Tonge to Stoke on transfer deadline day last summer and reports suggest Newcastle are ready to make a bid for defender Matthew Kilgallon with the end to the current window looming.

"I'm not a big fan to be honest and, like most of us, I'll be glad when the latest one is closed," Blackwell told the Sheffield Star. "Both in terms of out-goings and people who might be coming in. Sometimes they leave you with absolutely nowhere to go.

"Last summer when, after thinking everything was sorted, we got a call right at the last minute from Stoke about Michael Tonge.

"I was sat in my office at one in the morning sorting something out that, in all honesty, I didn't really want to happen in the first place."