Playing the loan game is now much tougher.
Posted on June 1st, 2010 | 29 Comments |
Of course there are ways round it, as is the way with most pieces of new legislation. Even with the new rules teams will be able to go abroad and snap up the most promising youngsters from around Europe, but it does now mean that they will have to be a bit more careful before they proceed with that whilst taking the new home grown rules into account. The definition of home grown is for a player to be trained for three years under the age of 21 by somebody in the English and Welsh professional system, and their must be eight of them in each squad. Players under the age of 21 do not count towards the squad of 25 players so can play at anytime despite not being registered, and it’s that last part that could spell trouble in the loan market for Newcastle this summer.
A lot of clubs will be looking to hang on to their most highly rated youngsters, and those will be the players that we will be looking at should the club decide to rely solely on loan players. It would make no sense for teams at the top like Manchester United or Arsenal to loan out players who could, if the circumstances arose, come into their team and do a job for them. And at the very least, the parent club will no doubt be looking to insert a clause where a player can be recalled at short notice, making it harder to rely on loan players.
“The loan market is open to us and if it is the right player then it is something that we will do,” Hughton told The Journal today. “However, managers will want to assess things when they get back after the summer.”
“We’re busy working on things – but I don’t see anything happening imminently.”
So there was both a caveat for working in the loan market, and also a hint that signings are planned. And if you look back at what Hughton has said previously, ther have been many more caveats suggesting that we will be in the transfer market, although it does now appear that it will be later in the summer rather than sooner.
“With the World Cup this summer I really can’t see any significant movements until quite late, and of course there isn’t a lot of money out there in the market.” Hughton said.
“We’re no different from a lot of clubs. It could be June or even later in July after the players have come back from pre-season before we see anything happening in the market. We will be aware of what is going on, but what usually happens is that one player signs for a club and that may mean another player becomes available.”
No doubt the focus will be on that last paragraph as people interpret it in their own varying ways. But what it means to me is ‘common sense’. Players that aren’t available now may well become available later on in the summer, we just don’t know.
So as it seems that signings won’t be happening in the near future, it leaves us free to speculate a little, enjoy the weather, and look forward to the World Cup.
In fact scratch the weather, it’s just started raining!
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cooldj says there’ll be nee mackems on the plane to SA!!