General Chat • Re: Teams coming down....

Ratscoot wrote:
Agree give Monk the contract then money to spend on permanent signings not loans then all these years in the wilderness will end

Last season - Loan signings that worked: Bartley, Jannson
Last season - Loan signings that didn't work: Grimes, Barrow
Last season - Loan signings that did okay: Sacko, Pedrazza

Last season - Permanent signings that worked: Green, Ayling
Last season - Permanent signings that didn't work: Antonnsen
Last season - Permanent signings that did okay: Roofe

I would say it was fairly much the same success rate whether it was loan or permanent signings. If you asked Huddersfield their best 3 signings were probably all loan signings. Likewise Bristol's in Tammy Abraham.

The key is to try to get loan deals with the option to buy - like we did with Jannson. MC usually only allows loan signings if we get the transfer clause but presumably made an exception with Bartley as Monk must have been desperate to get him and Swansea wouldn't allow us to have a transfer clause. It is a great way for us to do business as we haven't committed to buy and if the player does really well, like Jannson, we already have a fee agreed so the selling club cannot hold us to ransom (would imagine Torino would have demanded triple the transfer fee), and if the player does sh*te, like Barrow, we simply send them back and have only lost out on any loan fee we agreed to pay rather than the £ms a permanent deal would have cost.

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