Loan Market Evaluation
Premier League 2 qualified clubs (Clubs with Category 1 academies) have loaned out 267 players this year, enough to fill fifteen 18 man squads, with 22.47% of those players being overage for U23 football.
Unsurprisingly it is Chelsea who once again top the charts for most loanees, they have 31 players out on loan - incredibly 11 of those players are over 23 years old meaning that Chelsea alone have contributed 18% of all the >23 year old loans in the league.
Closely behind Chelsea are Manchester City, with 27 loanees, although City contrast sharply in the number of overage loans with just one “senior” player having been sent out.
Reading, Sunderland and Crystal Palace have the fewest players out on loan with just 1 each.
Perhaps the most surpising result is that Norwich and Brighton have 22 and 19 players out on loan respectively (8 overage between them. Brighton are undergoing a youth revolution in recent years and have greatly expanded their youth squads while Norwich also have a strong academy in an area with relatively few rival clubs.
Under the proposed “Operation Big Picture” plan; Arsenal, Brighton, Chelsea, Manchester City, Norwich City and Wolverhampton Wanderers would have to reduce their number of loanees (the proposal was to limit loans to 15 per club).
| Club |
In |
Out |
>23 |
| Arsenal |
0 |
16 |
2 |
| Aston Villa |
1 |
6 |
1 |
| Blackburn Rovers |
3 |
2 |
1 |
| Brighton |
0 |
19 |
3 |
| Burnley |
1 |
4 |
1 |
| Chelsea |
0 |
31 |
11 |
| Crystal Palace |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| Derby County |
1 |
6 |
4 |
| Everton |
1 |
6 |
1 |
| Fulham |
6 |
10 |
4 |
| Leeds United |
1 |
10 |
2 |
| Leicester City |
1 |
11 |
2 |
| Liverpool |
0 |
12 |
2 |
| Manchester City |
1 |
27 |
1 |
| Manchester United |
0 |
10 |
2 |
| Middlesbrough |
2 |
3 |
1 |
| Newcastle United |
0 |
10 |
2 |
| Norwich City |
3 |
22 |
5 |
| Reading |
3 |
1 |
1 |
| Southampton |
1 |
9 |
4 |
| Stoke City |
1 |
8 |
5 |
| Sunderland |
1 |
1 |
0 |
| Tottenham Hotspur |
2 |
10 |
0 |
| West Bromwich Albion |
2 |
10 |
2 |
| West Ham United |
2 |
4 |
1 |
| Wolverhampton Wanderers |
2 |
18 |
1 |
|
36 |
267 |
60 |
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Great post, as always, @Sweeting. Any idea where those 60 overaged players went!!! If they end up at some obscure club even at this age, they should do some career rethink.
Breakdown of loan for >23 players from Cat1 clubs…
English Championship: 17 - 28.33% (Fulham - 4)
English League One: 6 - 10% (Norwich - 2)
Turkish Super Lig: 6 - 10% (Stoke - 3)
English Premier League: 5 - 8.33% (Chelsea - 3)
Spanish LaLiga: 4 - 6.67% (Newcastle - 2)
Italian Serie A: 4 - 6.67% (Chelsea - 2)
Belgian Juliper League: 3 - 5% (Brighton, Chelsea, Leeds - 1)
Dutch Eredivisie: 3 - 5% (Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Stoke - 1)
Scottish Premiership: 2 - 3.33% (Brighton, Reading - 1)
Swiss Super League: 2 - 3.33% (Norwich, Wolves - 1)
Portguese Liga NOS: 2 - 3.33% (West Ham, Liverpool - 1)
English League Two, German Bundesliga, German Bundesliga2, Belgian Proximus League, Romanian Liga 1, Russian Premier Liga - 1 each (1.67% each)
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Elliot makes his debut for Blackburn tonight and Wilson starts for Cardiff also.
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Grujic on bench for Porto
Nice to see Elliott and Wilson both starting and playing full games tonight. Think Wilson would have secretly enjoyed scoring against Bournemouth after they seemed to drop him presumably saying he wasn’t good enough.
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Starts for all of Woodburn, Elliot and Wilson.
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Sheyi Ojo starts aswell. More than likely doesn’t have a future at Liverpool but think we could get good money for him when we sell. He is definitely a championship level player who could be good enough to play in the premiership some day.
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Good point don’t know why I keep forgetting Ojo is only on loan.
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Harvey Elliott scores for Blackburn.
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Ojo has scored for Cardiff
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I think his contract will expire next (2021) summer.
An assist for young Harvey as well. Sounds like he’s played really well again.
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I would be very surprised with Liverpool if he is let go on a free. Bad business if they dont get money for him. I remember thinking when we sold Sterling it was okay because we had Ibe coming through and Ojo was following on after him. It didn’t work out that way but back then Ojo had a lot of potential.
Edit: Just googled his contract situation and it looks like he signed a five year contract in the summer of 2019 so not too sure
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Sheyi Ojo with an assist tonight.
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Since the Harry Wilson’s out on loan or sold thread topic was so badly out of date, I am placing his latest goal in here instead.
Video clip is geo-locked to UK only. You will need VPN if you are outside of the UK.
Harry scored another worldie.
https://youtu.be/6PUyrR5f9bI?t=101
Source article: Harry Wilson hits another screamer & Awoniyi has pace to burn on full debut - Liverpool FC - This Is Anfield
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Both Ojo and Wilson start for Cardiff tonight.
Elliott with another assist for Blackburn. 1 goal and 3 assists in 6 games so far.
Played 5 full games and got subbed today in the 93rd minute. Playing a lot of football at the moment.
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