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Interesting to know if people prefer players to be loaned out or play for the reserve team to gain experience?

I know there are arguments for both my i personally prefer a player to be loaned to a premier club to gain experience. i.e like wilshire, sturridge, welbeck. Playing in the reserves just means they play against lesser players rather than try cutting it at the top level.

I think a few our our younger players would benefit more if they were loaned out.

Would love to see Suso, Sterling, Coady and Coates all get loaned out next season provided we have enough cover.

no brainer

the next gen has been a great thing and has really helped the young players but its not a patch on playin in a competitive league

I think the education till 19 - 20 should be at the club and then they need to start to learn from experience by playing in real games.
Loaning them is the only way to get this as we can't have B teams like they do in other countries. Ideally we need to get players loaned in the EPL as both the reputation and experience would be invaluable.
E.g. Coates could be playing for a team near the bottom. This acid test would make or break him, but at least he would grow from it and we would be in a situation to judge his ability in our league.

id like to see us loan players out if we got the right clubs interesting in taking them. definitely more beneficial than letting them rot away in the reserves. but we will always need some cover for injuries

i think a lot depends on wether we make the europa league next season. i think that has been a vital catalyst to giving our young players experience. without it we might not have seen kelly, shelvey, robinson, sterling, wisdom, suso etc get a game

The problem at the moment is we dont have a bigger enough squad to Loan some of are player out.

+1 would prefer to loan many of the guys mentioned above and move but what should be our reserves are our fecking 1st teamers....and let's face it, they ain't up to it YET

The loan system is a farce, which is why it is currently being reviewed. Under no circustances should a senior player be allowed to play for another team in the same league, and no loans should be for a full season.

Under 21s should be allowed out on loan to a different league for a maximum of 6 months
Over 21s should be allowed out on loan to a different league for a maximum of 3 months

How can a club the size of Chelsea, Utd or Liverpool be allowed to field a rivals player for a whole season?! These long term loans are a fairly new thing - I remember when (senior player) loans were for 3 or 4 weeks tops, and only used as emergency cover for injuries. If a club isnt sure about a player then take him on trial but don't sign him for a whole season.

Its fairly new because of the problems not having it created.
Lower league clubs have power to overprice British talent. England struggle to get players coming through.