Loanwatch 2022/23

[pauliewalnuts]

Chelsea's business model makes me sick.

It is an odd one.  Spend big on potential, don't play them, watch their value drop. 

Not really. Spend big on potential and give them massive salaries (and set their families up with homes and jobs) so all the young talent wants to go there because they pay the most. Play the ones who are good enough, keep loaning out the ones that aren't until they find the right level to be sold at.

In the last three years Abraham, Gilmour, Zouma, Tomori, Pasalic, Aina and Kalas has brought in around £140m in transfer fees.

Yeah, they've made an immense amount of money doing that.

[Dante Lavelli]

Chelsea's business model makes me sick.

It is an odd one.  Spend big on potential, don't play them, watch their value drop. 

Not really. Spend big on potential and give them massive salaries (and set their families up with homes and jobs) so all the young talent wants to go there because they pay the most. Play the ones who are good enough, keep loaning out the ones that aren't until they find the right level to be sold at.

In the last three years Abraham, Gilmour, Zouma, Tomori, Pasalic, Aina and Kalas has brought in around £140m in transfer fees.

there’s a few more:

Guehi at palace cost £18m according to wiki
Livramento at Southampton cost about £5m from memory
Gallagher elevated his price tag to, I dunno, £40m whilst at Palace

Annoying but Chelsea do a good job at breeding footballers.

[pauliewalnuts]

Gallagher elevated his price tag to, I dunno, £40m whilst at Palace

You're probably right about 40m, but honestly, if Villa paid that much money for someone so staggeringly average as him, I'd be distraught.

[maidstonevillain]

Aaron Ramsey now has a better goals per minute ratio than Cameron Archer for boro, averaging a goal every 161 minutes (to Cam's one every 170 mins).

Which is the fair comparison. Because all other variables are the same.

Is that just for 'Boro or include his earlier loan spell as well?

Oh, just Boro, I was looking at Boro's BBC results page!

[ChicagoLion]

Gallagher elevated his price tag to, I dunno, £40m whilst at Palace

You're probably right about 40m, but honestly, if Villa paid that much money for someone so staggeringly average as him, I'd be distraught.

He hasn’t shown much at Chelsea but he looked really good at Palace.

[Gareth]

Looked good at Palace, at Chelsea he seems to just come on and run round charging onto people…obviously enough to continually get into England squads though

[OCD]

Easy to look lost at that basket case of a football club tbh.

[eamonn]

Yes, they even hid Mourinho inside a kit basket to circumvent his ban ahead of one Chumps League game, didnt they

[Drummond]

I'd trust Emery with any signing right now. I'd also trust our recruitment team too.

[Legion]

Archer with an assist for Ramsey.

[OCD]

Has a team's promotion bid ever been so dependent on 2 loan signings from the same club?

[ADVILLAFAN]

Decent night so far for Villabrough

[pablo_picasso]

2 goals & 2 assists for Archer, 1 goal for A. Ramsey.

Not a bad night at all...

[PeterWithesShin]

Louie Barry sent off

[Brazilian Villain]

Louie Barry sent off for Salford.