25-03-2015, 18:00
Rotherham players are appearing for lower-division teams around the country, whilst they bring in emergency and youth loans to cover the gaps they themselves created in their desperation to avoid the drop. The system isn't a system, it's a farce.
The excuse for youth loans is that it gives competitive football to young players stranded behind expensive imports at big clubs - but in most cases it actively inhibits their progress. They can't impress their own manager because they are a hundred miles from home. Harry Kane probably learnt a bit from his loan spells, but he didn't shine. His chance to shine only came because Adeybayor and Soldado so conspicuously failed in the system the manager wanted to play.
The question is how many other Harry Kanes does the loan system turn into lower-division players? This season we saw Daniel Johnson at the Proact; however much he shone at Chesterfield and then Oldham it seemed his Aston Villa card was marked ..... he was on his way. Even in a terrible Villa team no one thought two or three first team games might unearth a real player. Yet teams from our level have slaughtered Manchester United and Chelsea this season, which must suggest a player consistently displaying talent at our level ought to rate a second look.
Quite simply loans areb ollocks. Crawley just signed John Cofie. Once a budding star at Man Utd. He had several loans, seems to have progressed backwards, now at 23 he's had very little first team experience and is actually a gamble for Crawley, who hope if it comes off it could keep them up.
The excuse for youth loans is that it gives competitive football to young players stranded behind expensive imports at big clubs - but in most cases it actively inhibits their progress. They can't impress their own manager because they are a hundred miles from home. Harry Kane probably learnt a bit from his loan spells, but he didn't shine. His chance to shine only came because Adeybayor and Soldado so conspicuously failed in the system the manager wanted to play.
The question is how many other Harry Kanes does the loan system turn into lower-division players? This season we saw Daniel Johnson at the Proact; however much he shone at Chesterfield and then Oldham it seemed his Aston Villa card was marked ..... he was on his way. Even in a terrible Villa team no one thought two or three first team games might unearth a real player. Yet teams from our level have slaughtered Manchester United and Chelsea this season, which must suggest a player consistently displaying talent at our level ought to rate a second look.
Quite simply loans areb ollocks. Crawley just signed John Cofie. Once a budding star at Man Utd. He had several loans, seems to have progressed backwards, now at 23 he's had very little first team experience and is actually a gamble for Crawley, who hope if it comes off it could keep them up.