Loan watch - 2016/17

[Matt Collins]

Surprised we didn't let RHM go to coventry. He's not been getting on the bench before we strengthened and the under 23 league is shit.

[UK Redsox]

If there's a thread like this on a Chelsea fan-site, they'll have their work cut out monitoring the players' progress

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/01/chelsea-38-players-loan-who-where

[Hookeysmith]

A goal, MOTM and taken off injured in the 59th minute. If football was only played for 60 minutes a game, Carlos would be one of the greatest players in the world. I appreciate he never had a proper rest every summer what with international football but I'm struggling to think of a player whose performance dropped so low for the final 30 minutes of a game.

Good luck to him though. For 60 minutes a game he's a very good, technical player. Why he never scored headers like that goal yesterday whilst at Villa I'll never know.

Oh hang on.. of course, Westwood on corners.

Surely its all about the pace of the game - he never got to grips with it here and was made even worse at 60 mins when both his body and brain tired

[VILLA MOLE]

If there's a thread like this on a Chelsea fan-site, they'll have their work cut out monitoring the players' progress

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/01/chelsea-38-players-loan-who-where

Stock piling talent and dictating where it goes,  to quash the opposition . it shouldnt be allowed 

[Dante Lavelli]

If there's a thread like this on a Chelsea fan-site, they'll have their work cut out monitoring the players' progress

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/01/chelsea-38-players-loan-who-where

Stock piling talent and dictating where it goes,  to quash the opposition . it shouldnt be allowed 

It's also a canny investment with players' values seemingly increasing 10-15% (?) each summer.  That's better than Abramovich keeping the cash in a bank account, not to mention the loan fees they'd be receiving.

[old man villa fan]

A goal, MOTM and taken off injured in the 59th minute. If football was only played for 60 minutes a game, Carlos would be one of the greatest players in the world. I appreciate he never had a proper rest every summer what with international football but I'm struggling to think of a player whose performance dropped so low for the final 30 minutes of a game.

Good luck to him though. For 60 minutes a game he's a very good, technical player. Why he never scored headers like that goal yesterday whilst at Villa I'll never know.

Oh hang on.. of course, Westwood on corners.

Surely its all about the pace of the game - he never got to grips with it here and was made even worse at 60 mins when both his body and brain tired

Was it only down to his own game or did he run out of steam trying to cover for other players defensively and having to complete more difficult passes later in the game as players stopped running into/creating space.  Perhaps we missed the obvious.

[Villa in Denmark]

If there's a thread like this on a Chelsea fan-site, they'll have their work cut out monitoring the players' progress

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/01/chelsea-38-players-loan-who-where

At the risk of sounding very judgemental, will many of them even give a f%%k, as long as whoever the latest Abramovich ego trip is, is not running the risk of a season outside the top 4 again.

[cdbearsfan]

The oddest is Cuadrado, at Juventus on a THREE YEAR "loan" deal!

[Dave Cooper please]

Harry McKirdy [Aston Villa - Stevenage] Loan

With young Cowans there too, they might just be my second favourite side.

Satanage could never be anyone's second, or even first, favourite side.

[eamonn]

The oddest is Cuadrado, at Juventus on a THREE YEAR "loan" deal!

Ryan Giggs was on-loan at ManUre for 20 years. Chickened-out of returning to his parent club, Man City, when the loan expired.

[UK Redsox]

Bump..........

Seeing as Gil's lack of game time is being discussed elsewhere

Has anyone been keeping an eye of the other loanees ?

[avfcpg]

Vertoute scored at the weekend....

[Dave]

Carlos Sanchez is generally in the team for a mid-table Fiorentina side.

Scored the winner for them earlier in the season against Chievo.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

A goal, MOTM and taken off injured in the 59th minute. If football was only played for 60 minutes a game, Carlos would be one of the greatest players in the world. I appreciate he never had a proper rest every summer what with international football but I'm struggling to think of a player whose performance dropped so low for the final 30 minutes of a game.

Good luck to him though. For 60 minutes a game he's a very good, technical player. Why he never scored headers like that goal yesterday whilst at Villa I'll never know.

Oh hang on.. of course, Westwood on corners.

Surely its all about the pace of the game - he never got to grips with it here and was made even worse at 60 mins when both his body and brain tired

Was it only down to his own game or did he run out of steam trying to cover for other players defensively and having to complete more difficult passes later in the game as players stopped running into/creating space.  Perhaps we missed the obvious.

True but I think international football caught up with him. It was a tournament every summer for the last 3 years, not to mention all the traveling.

[UK Redsox]

Calder, Toner and Suliman return from their loan spells, the latter due to injury

https://www.avfc.co.uk/News/2017/01/03/calder-returns

https://www.avfc.co.uk/News/2017/01/03/toner-suliman-back-in-b6