We may as well close all active transfer threads then.
I get closing a thread if a player extends a contract, or the transfer window ends, or if he gets traded to another team. But if there's still activity??
Too often I think posters here want to close transfer threads as a sour grapes, knee-jerk reaction to their frustrations about closing a potential transfer. As if shutting down the thread to hold any more public conversation on a player allows them to experience a "premature closure" -- so that they can move on because life is too emotionally difficult for them to keep threads like this open. Can't have that failure to close something keep nagging at us, right?
It's like deleting a contact on your phone of the girl you've been trying to bang, but you can't handle her rejection to date so you cope by making an emotional swipe.
And to that, I say: that's childish, so deal, OK?
If there's no news, there's little to post. And nobody is being forced to go back into transfer threads where they don't want to go. Just because you close the thread doesn't make the issue go away.