06-01-2023, 11:08 AM
(05-01-2023, 06:29 PM)Theyak2 Wrote: If we loan they play against who we want?
It's bullshit it's the other way around.
TIf that's the way it is then send them back, they don't have our best interests at heart.
Simples
Last night, Chelsea made a £35 million signing for some Monaco bloke and it made me think what is the point of all those academies, u-23 leagues, kid franchises (like the one in Pompey) and loan signings littered all over the world? They mow up talent like a blue whale devours plankton and have no real intention of playing them. Some get lucky if their club has a transfer ban but for the most part it's about young players doing a Wayne Bridge and accepting high wages in return for a hopeful bench seat in a low round of the league cup/Europa league. It must be so frustrating for those with actual ambition when their club spunks more cash on a foreign unknown rather than focusing on their huge reservoir of players.
We got Matt Clarke for £5 million. Never played a game for Brighton. Not even on the bench. Spend years on loans until they got so bored they ended up selling them. It's not right and yes I know Pompey would do the same in that position - it's a Premier League disease thats killing football.