Posted:
Sun Aug 23, 2009 5:56 pm
by JoeTerp
For me, Nemeth was always going to go on loan. Maybe the Championship would have been better than Greece, maybe not, but this is part of the deal to bring in the new CB, so no use complaining. I hope that he starts over there, and I hope he impresses. But I have cooled on my hopes on him anyway.
I don't buy the argument that "when has anyone ever come back from being out on loan" what is that supposed to mean exactly? that we shouldn't send people out on loan? When has a loanee ever shown enough during their spells that we would have been interested in buying such a player if they weren't already on the books? Seems to me the loan experience just exposes the player for what they are, which is more of an indictment on the academy, WHICH IS WHY IT WAS TOTALLY REVAMPED THIS OFF-SEASON.
Using a Karma argument, you would still have to say that we are punching above our weight in producing players. Gerrard is still a the club and he is in the top .00001% of footballers in the world, I don't think that is appreciated enough. And then Fowler and Owen were both world class strikers. Those expectations are too high imo, and there is no reason for them to be that high. Better than Voronin, that is where the bar is for where the standard of our youngsters has to be in order to help out the team. That seems like a reachable goal.
And what the hell with this "other than Insua" line WTF do you mean other than Insua? why doesn't he count, why isn't he enough? It seems like Kelly is our backup RB this season too, thats pretty good.
Posted:
Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:07 pm
by LFC2007
I don't really see a downside to this. He's joining a club in a league of decent standard where he'll have his chances to play regularly. A kid his age needs that.
Posted:
Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:27 pm
by LFC2007
Perhaps that's true, but wherever he goes on loan he'll have to fight for his place, the point of loaning young players out though is that their chances of getting first-team football are greatly improved and in this instance it's no different.
Posted:
Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:19 pm
by Dazzer
Any ways Reason I see for this loan is only to let people see him in action in a first team I feel Rafa knows this lad won't make it due to his age and is putting him on the market so to speak.I expect him to be sold next season hopefully for a profit (I meen over what we paid him so far).