Good for him, but I place zero stock in age group football. Royston Drenthe is probably my favourite example of this, literally looked like the Dutch version of Messi in the 2007 European U21 Championships. There are few lessons to be learned from these competitions. We only learn about a players true quality, application and character when they step up to senior football and Kenny hasn't proved what he can do this season. I would like to see Kenny have a full season of senior football under his belt on loan as he's obviously not going to be first choice here.
I see your point. But loans at this stage in their careers do not always work. People refer to Colemans as a good example of one that did work out. But at the moment I liken Kenny's situation to that of Galloway and Garbutt.
Both those players had spells in the first team where they showed they weren't out of place at that level without particularly excelling. Both were prob 3rd choice LBs for us and, at the time first choice for England U21s.
It was decided to send them out on loan to get games under their belt. In bith cases the loans were disastrous and , as it happens, injuries meant they would have been playing had they stayed at Everton. Ironically thats how Galloway was given his chance.
Their development could have turned out very different had they not gone on loan. As it stands, both are destroyed and may not even make a living out of the game once their contracts expire.
At that age, 19/21 its a very thin line between success and failure. I'm all for getting players out on loan when they're a bit younger to get experience of open age football. But thereafter we should take cobtrol of the development ourselves. With the best ones anyway.
You only need to look at the Chelsea model to see that continual loans dont work.
