Villa player loan watch

[eastie]

@MatKendrick: Jackie Chance: Villa's highly rated youngster Jack Grealish set to join Notts County on loan #avfc http://t.co/wsPlPdRcl4

Good luck to the lad , he could be a very good player for us in a year or two.

[Dante Lavelli]

There's a good interview on the guardian with Martinez talking about the youth/loan system. For me, the pertinent point was that players up to the age of about 20 play/train 35 hours a week. This drops off to about ten hours when they've graduated but are not playing regularly ie on the bench.

He says it vital players aged 21 to 23 go on loan as this is the key period, or the biggest difference between England and Spain. Good move by the club.

[supertom]

He really impressed me in pre-season. Actually we've been talking about a dearth in Irish talent, but there's some very promising Irish youngsters coming through our ranks.

This is the right time to get him out on loan too. Get him playing. Hes at a good level, he's got Enda down there with him too, which'll help him settle quicker. Good luck to him.
I reckon we loan him to L1. See how he does. Then perhaps loan him out again in the Championship if possible. Get him well prepared to step up to Prem level in a year or two.

[PaulWinch again]

Good to see hopefully this will aid his development.

[richard moore]

Glad to see we are doing this more. I feel there has been a missing 'X Factor' these past 10 years or so where we have consistently produced youth teams capable of winning things, but much fewer youngsters than you would have thought given that success, who have made it at Premier League level. I hope that loaning out players is that missing link

[eastie]

Glad to see we are doing this more. I feel there has been a missing 'X Factor' these past 10 years or so where we have consistently produced youth teams capable of winning things, but much fewer youngsters than you would have thought given that success, who have made it at Premier League level. I hope that loaning out players is that missing link

I agree, maybe we will see Gardner and Bowery go out on loan to championship clubs too.
There is no problem loaning these players out if we have a recall option on them .

[not3bad]

"Loan watch" thread?

[paul_e]

Glad to see we are doing this more. I feel there has been a missing 'X Factor' these past 10 years or so where we have consistently produced youth teams capable of winning things, but much fewer youngsters than you would have thought given that success, who have made it at Premier League level. I hope that loaning out players is that missing link

I disagree on the 'made it at premier league level'.  There are currently a more than reasonably number of players in premier league matchday squads who came through our academy.  What has been missing is the 1 superstar we can point to as our major success but I doubt there's many sides in the premier league with a better success rate than us when it comes to regular premier league players.

[eastie]

"Loan watch" thread?

That's for players out playing on loan , this is news of grealish going out on loan, there's a difference.

[not3bad]

"Loan watch" thread?

That's for players out playing on loan , this is news of grealish going out on loan, there's a difference.

There's nothing wrong with this thread, but I was suggesting that with all these players going out on loan, maybe we start a loan watch thread so we could talk about how they're all doing.

[Dante Lavelli]

"Loan watch" thread?

That's for players out playing on loan , this is news of grealish going out on loan, there's a difference.

There's nothing wrong with this thread, but I was suggesting that with all these players going out on loan, maybe we start a loan watch thread so we could talk about how they're all doing.

I agree. Potentially grelish could play against carruthers this weekend v MK Dons.

[eastie]

"Loan watch" thread?

That's for players out playing on loan , this is news of grealish going out on loan, there's a difference.

There's nothing wrong with this thread, but I was suggesting that with all these players going out on loan, maybe we start a loan watch thread so we could talk about how they're all doing.

Sorry, i misunderstood your point, yes a loan watch thread may be interesting with Burke, grealish, Stevens, Fonz etc out on loan .

[darren woolley]

I think it will do him good to get some first team action.

[paul_e]

I think it will do him good to get some first team action.

definitely, I think this kid has enough about him to be a bit special so now we need to see how he mentally handles being given a bit of a kicking.

[OCD]

The one good thing about the Youth Champions League being scrapped is that we have to get those players loan moves. It has seemed in the last couple of years that we've actively avoided loaning these players out because they had big European games at their level.