Martin Samuel's loan market articles

[ToffeeDan]

So how exactly are teams supposed to compete? Cheat FFP? Well that's Chelsea and City out for the count. Spend to much for a couple of years? err goodbye Liverpool. Not earn enough income whilst making continuous smallish losses? Oops that'll be Everton then.

Buying young players and taking a chance is obviously a cheaper risk. Nothing wrong with that and allows the selling club to receive an income. Limiting squads to 25 players stops the big teams from abusing the opportunity that large income streams can offer them to dominate withoutrestraint. So if City and Chelsea have Moses, Lukaku and Barry sat doing nothing then that's apparently ok now.

The players get to play. The parent club gets to save money and thw loaning club gets to avoid a transfer fee. That's just smart financial management of spare resources. What Samuel conveniently overlooks is that the transfer fee - sorry that's the so-called transfer fee is really only a form of compensation to the club releasing the member of staff from a contract. Unless of course he actually thinks the clubs are selling human beings into slavery.

 

[MartSlinger]

Love this! LOVE IT!
Means that we at Everton Football Club are doing our job properly. I want to be hated for this kind of stuff means that we are threatening all the media darlings. YES! Hahahahahaha! TON TON TON.

 

[Muzumbu]

Daily fail make me physically sick. Do they have a vendetta against us or something cos we are breaking the "Top 4" mould? How dare we get good players on loan because we can't afford them!

I'm sure if Arsenal had 3 players on loan and were doing well, Wenger would be called a genius.

 

[roydo]

Fat hairy idiot.

 

[Billy Dean]

How dare a team like us with a small budget use a mixture of clever management and shrewd transfer business to be successful? By doing this we are clearly denying innocent rich clubs, managed by clowns, who spank millions in a scattergun fashion, their rightful place in the elite. I hope that if we do take 4th place then they find a way to disqualify us from the CL and ban the loan transfer system all together in future.

 

[ford_uk]

He was on the Sunday Supplement banging on about this so was waiting for this article, the London press hate it don't they.

 

[ijjysmith]

Sunderland have 5 players on loan this season, WBA have 4. Presumably this is equally contemptible in the world of Martin Samuel?

 

[Blueblooded]

So what he's saying is that "in these days of financial fair play" (my @rse), clubs like Chelsea who have oil millions which allow them to stockpile dozens of players at a time are not worth commenting on, but clubs like Everton who don't have two beans to rub together in comparison are out of order for "exploiting" the situation.

Right, got it. Obviously it would be better for football all round if players like Lukaku were just left to rot in the reserves somewhere.

 

[BoysInBlue]

They hate us because we shatter their heavily hyped misconceptions that success can only be achieved by spending a ton of money and we could potentially unseat one of the chosen few. Imagine how many London journos support Arsenal and are terrified we might cause the Gunners to go tits up? They need CL for the money, to pay for the Emirates Stadium.

Instead of having a go at us, he should perhaps question why the richer clubs are allowed to stockpile players in the first place.

 

[SiOnemore]

The fact that the article is in The Daily Mail, tells you all you need to know.

 

[hullefc]

In the article it says Arsenal has been involved in 14 loan this season. So it's typical sour grapes from one of the Sky 4, supported by the media. They can't stand that a team might get into the top 4 by not have a shed load of cash. It makes the sports hacks job more difficult to explain why Martinez has done such a good job on a small budget, in his first year in charge. So they put it down to the loan system. There are 2 types of people despised in Britain one are MPs and the other are hacks that pretend they are objective journalists.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Wouldnt have needed to loan Barry had City had not taken Rodwell off us. Also last time i checked we paid loan fees for all our players. Samuel doesnt know what he's arguing anymore. He's banged on onerously about every subject under the sun that he's ended up contradicting most of the things he's ever said.

Unfortunately most of the media will be hating Everton this season. Most are Liverpool fans -standard. Now we also have Unuted fans beating on us because Moyes is getting shown up. Self entitled spurs have their nose out of joint and the wannabees like Newcastle and Villa hate us because they want it to be them. Its only normal fans who will have any respect for what we've done, and they do not work in the media.

 

[Royal Blue Jersey]

Sunderland have 5 players on loan this season, WBA have 4. Presumably this is equally contemptible in the world of Martin Samuel?

How dare you quote undeniable figures and simple facts to undermine Martin's expertly crafted bulls**t nonsense.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Is Martin Samuel still a thing?

I thought he was shot from a cannon into the sun

Or was that just wishful thinking on my part?

 

[Dymak]

I really hope we finish in the top four, as they would absolutely hate it if we did!