Martin Samuel's loan market articles

[billycopper]

I don't have a problem with his article. If FFP is the issue though then FIFA needs to look at clubs who use outside wealth to tempt the best players first before it goes after clubs taking advantage of the loan system. We're operating on a far more level playing field. It was Roberto's charm and persistence and the opportunity to play regularly at a high level in a team that plays attractive football that persuaded the loanees to join us. It's something that would be within the means of Spurs, Newcastle, Swansea etc if they were cute enough about it and decided to go that way.

And Wenger is complaining about Chelsea manipulating the system by allowing us to field Lukaku against everyone but themselves anyway. I don't think that loanees should be permitted to play against their parent clubs. It could be too easily abused.

 

[Khalekan]

I think even if one doesn't have a problem with the article or even agrees with the broad thrust of it, one has to wonder why Mr. Samuel waited until now to write it.

He has had practically the whole season to vent his views on the loan system but he says sod all until Champions League qualification suddenly falls into Everton's own hands with the season's end rapidly approaching.

It's like Fleet Street's gang of corpulent knowitalls have had a lightbulb moment and see the status quo which they have actively encouraged this past decade and a half in real danger of being smashed.

The CL without either Arsenal or United is total anathema to them.....the fact that both might be relegated from the CL this season is unthinkable.

And why no mention of Liverpool?

They are sitting atop the league and they have as many loanees as we have. Is it just that he doesn't mind loans so long as they aren't the glittering success ours have been?

If Romelu Lukaku had turned out as big a flop for us as that boy Moses has at Anfield would that be all right then?

In my view this is very much Martin Samuel having a dig at Everton and Roberto Martinez, no matter how much he protests that it isn't.

 

[bluejock]

LOOK AT MY ANGRY INTERNET FACE AND FEEL MY RAGE

Fat man talks tosh in Newspaper. Arsed?

 

[bluestevon]

Be interesting if Liverpool win the league due to the point Moses got them in the season opener against Swansea if their will be an article slating the loan system due to the rs winning the title courtesy of a loan player getting them the result

 

[davidloach]

Barcelona actually hired Martinez before this season, he's just here on loan too.

 

[Billy Dean]

I think even if one doesn't have a problem with the article or even agrees with the broad thrust of it, one has to wonder why Mr. Samuel waited until now to write it.

He has had practically the whole season to vent his views on the loan system but he says sod all until Champions League qualification suddenly falls into Everton's own hands with the season's end rapidly approaching.

It's like Fleet Street's gang of corpulent knowitalls have had a lightbulb moment and see the status quo which they have actively encouraged this past decade and a half in real danger of being smashed.

The CL without either Arsenal or United is total anathema to them.....the fact that both might be relegated from the CL this season is unthinkable.

And why no mention of Liverpool?

They are sitting atop the league and they have as many loanees as we have. Is it just that he doesn't mind loans so long as they aren't the glittering success ours have been?

If Romelu Lukaku had turned out as big a flop for us as that boy Moses has at Anfield would that be all right then?

In my view this is very much Martin Samuel having a dig at Everton and Roberto Martinez, no matter how much he protests that it isn't.

he's probably an arsenal fan, that would explain the timing.

 

[TheFinnFan]

every journalist in great britain should be shipped and whipped

 

[toffee matt]

he's probably an arsenal fan, that would explain the timing.

Samuel is a west ham fan

 

[Eric Djemba-Djemba]

Samuel is a west ham fan

Bet he was fuming when they had Andy Carroll on loan last season.

 

[Kev The Rat]

The real problem is not the loan system it's the fact that clubs like Monaco, city and Chelsea can stockpile players in the way they do. If these clubs weren't allowed to do this they wouldn't be demanding loose loan systems that send surplus players out on loan as they have to us. And if the richest weren't allowed to stockpile players then there's a greater chance that clubs like us would have them anyway.

 

[flibbyflob]

HANG ON a minute.

I'm fat and have a beard too. FFS.

Are you Mike Parry?

 

[ijjysmith]

LOOK AT MY ANGRY INTERNET FACE AND FEEL MY RAGE

Fat man talks tosh in Newspaper. Arsed?

Exactly this.

It's funny though. You get other threads about us being ignored by the media.

But when we are mentioned it's tosh like this.

Who really cares?!

 

[Elong]

They're just worried that we're gonna break the mold of the top 4. Arsed? Not in the slightest.

 

[efcfanwirral]

Be interesting if Liverpool win the league due to the point Moses got them in the season opener against Swansea if their will be an article slating the loan system due to the rs winning the title courtesy of a loan player getting them the result

From what I've been hearing it'll be loads of articles on how they've won the league spending practically nothing with a master tactician in charge, despite essentially failing FFP

 

[ijjysmith]

They're just worried that we're gonna break the mold of the top 4. Arsed? Not in the slightest.

Exactly this.