[BaggieSteve]

AN-M won't be playing full back, as that was what Southampton wanted and he refused them, the reason why he took too long and they pulled out.
The team when they can all play will be interesting, is there room for Livers, Gibbs

I think the move to Southampton was more of an issue as Southampton are only 4 points behind Arsenal, you do not want to be helping out your competition for a European place by loaning them players.

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Trying to be positive and these are good loans, but already I am worried for next season, whichever league we are in and for the same reason as usual.  We will have to entirely replace what will probably be our first choice midfield: Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Okay Yokuslu and Conor Gallagher.  Just imagine what the combined cost of those three would be, plus the other positions we need to fill.  This is our biggest problem we cannot build a team, as we are in a permanent state of crisis management and firefighting.

News seems to be coming out that Sam Field is going to QPR for the rest of the season with the option of a permanent move. If the latter is the case, I think it highlights even more SalopBaggie's concerns above. I genuinely believe Sam Field has talent but has never been given a serious run of games to show this - when I think of how many Sawyers has had then Field's opportunities pale into insignificance. I'm disappointed we have been shipping out our young talent and replacing them with loans and/or older players. I appreciate the primary goal is to avoid relegation but I feel we should also be thinking longer term. If this approach fails to stave off relegation and all the loans return to their clubs, as they will, then we will need a better plan in the Championship than a team of old farts and has beens.