As Johnson knows, there is something much more calculated throughout the process now; Each Premier League club has a loan manager or at least one committee whose work is to ensure that academy’s talent or senior players who do not play can be relocated to help their development or help relieve numbers in the first team .
While the withdrawals previously tended to happen, and the vast major Your own success.
“It has changed a lot. It has gone from getting the players who are not playing for certain periods of time, one month, three months, six months, something more strategic,” said Rob Newman, former chief of recruitment at West Ham who also He spent 12 years in the Manchester City International Exploration Department.
“If they are playing well in children under 21 and there are 18, 19, you conclude that they need male football. Is it appropriate for the boy to leave?
“Because if you are going to get rid of below, then it makes no sense, so you are looking to put it in an environment where you adapt well, so clubs are naturally careful.
“The clubs, say, in the League one and the league two, will enter with presentations to show how they will play, how they would fit into a player in that, what they want me to do, etc.
“Do not be evil, there are still some that may have personal connections in the premier league clubs and will sound to ask: ‘Do you have a striker?’ Just to get a body.
“But, for the most part, there is a very extensive due diligence process of both the loan club and those who receive the player.”