The loan system

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The amount of people you get saying we'd be nothing without our loan signings, the news of Traore seems to have brought it all about again. In my eyes, if we have money left from Fellaini & Anichebe sales that can be used to sign players, it'd be a better idea to loan as many players as we can at the moment to try and get into the Champions League, then if we got there to use it on Champions League class players. Whereas, if we don't get to the CL we can use money on improving the squad aswell as loaning other players. Whichever way you look at it imo it seems like the right thing to do. Plus, there's always the factor of players warming to us. Think Roberto's pulling a blinder with the loan system and something Moyes really missed a trick with when helping us to progress further.
 
Other fans always have a generic complaint about the club, same as I am sure we do about other clubs. Doesn't mean anything. Before it was that we were a long ball team, now its that we are nothing without our loans.

Bobby explained his strategy and that the loan system is there to be used each year and keep a squad fresh whilst keeping a solid permanent spine to the first XI and the squad. Thats fine by me.
 
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Pretty sure Moyes loaned Howard, Pienaar, Arteta to great success and Jo, McBride, Donavan etc to relative success as well like. Lots of others too.
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I think all of those bar Donovan were to try them out with a view to signing them. The way Roberto's using the loan market it's to improve our team to try and make progress as a club and who we can attract.
 
It's all a bit sour grapes from other teams calling us Everloan in my opinion. It's not our fault that they go out and piss tens of millions of pounds up the wall on average players when we need to beg, borrow and steal to get any money together. It's like frugality isn't a good trait anymore which is worrying considering how many clubs seem to forget they are businesses at the end of the day and if you can get more for less you should.
 
Nobody was arsed when we loaned the likes of Straq. The players were there for the clubs to get. Martinez was the only one shrewd enough to stick his neck out for them.
 
Surely Robertor this is like having your cake but not eating it, or renting when you can afford to buy.

If we have money we should buy and tie them to long deals so not to lose them unless it is to a large transfer, at the moment we are in a position were no one is spending so don't have to and still be able to more than hold our own. If our near rivals buy, then we wil. Have to spend to stay with them. Who would have thought one or two seasons ago about life without a Baines for instance, but ,since his injury Oviedo has proven he is more than capable, coupled with RM faith in Barkley and hopefully introducing. Few more youngsters but looking at our bench lately everyone knows our squad is thin.

In essence, if we can afford to buy, buy, no one was thinking about Cl footbal for us this year and so every result at the moment is a bonus, good football attracts good players, loans whilst good to pad out the squad is not the way forward.

Most of our positions are covered except the most important one and the one that it is the most expensive to cover, and that is of centre forward. We know Lukaku's will go back to Chelsea and every penny should be squirreled away for a forward, the rest of the positions you can fill on the cheap (relatively) or bring through but we do not have any prolific scores coming through.
 
If Cissokho and Moses had turned out as good as our loanees then nothing would be said by them lot. I think the position we're in financially that we can get by with loans then hopefully invest quite heavily in the summer.
 
The moans re-loans emanating from our rivals is music to my ears. "Me thinks they doth protest too much" : which in modern English is saying, we present a threat and they are NOT happy about it.
 
Robertor said:
The amount of people you get saying we'd be nothing without our loan signings, the news of Traore seems to have brought it all about again. In my eyes, if we have money left from Fellaini & Anichebe sales that can be used to sign players, it'd be a better idea to loan as many players as we can at the moment to try and get into the Champions League, then if we got there to use it on Champions League class players. Whereas, if we don't get to the CL we can use money on improving the squad aswell as loaning other players. Whichever way you look at it imo it seems like the right thing to do. Plus, there's always the factor of players warming to us. Think Roberto's pulling a blinder with the loan system and something Moyes really missed a trick with when helping us to progress further.
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Give Moyes some credit - he was one of the first managers to use the loan system to help take us forward before it became more commonplace.

Loans have become an integral part of the game now. Clubs have plenty of good reasons to use loans to cover positions for the short-term while a longer term solution is in the pipeline. It's pointless people saying that we are artificially strengthened by the loan system - you might as well say we are artificially strengthened by the transfer system, because that's essentially what a loan is.
 
It makes not a jot of difference whether you win games with a team you spent £200m on or a team filled with loan signings. It's a feeble complaint made by those who are unhappy with our form this season.
 
You do whatever you can to gain an advantage if it's within the rules and is beneficial.

Not doing anything illegal are we?
 
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