This may be an unpleasant concept for some & indeed I dislike the idea of us being labelled a feeder club. However with the presence of three large clubs in the near vicinity why is it that we cannot host for a while some of these clubs youngsters on loans whilst maintaining our own kids & the promising Harefield pipeline of the future. For all my antipathy to Arsenal from 1987 they do have a couple of kids that would be useful to us. Havard Nordveit CB, Henri Lansbury AM , Gavin Hoyte RB. Chelsea. The club who have ruined football by inflating the transfer market rub by a criminal oligarch. However Miroslav Stoch would be superb on the left wing the equivalent to an Adam Johnson but with more pace.Franco di Santo is out of reach being part of the first team now. Tottenham. Fluked the win in 87 thanks to the horrific goalkeeping crisis. However they do have a useful striker in Tomas Pekhardt who at 6'2" could fit into Hendos role & has had great sucess at Cezch u21 level. Obviously they all lack experience but they are all talented & more particularly hungry to prove themselves something lacking last year it seemed to me.
Experience is important, particularly as we have a very young strike force now, BUT i'm with you on this one! We need to use the loan market/free transfers to the best of our ability! I'm confident he'll bring in at least one loan signing this summer. Clinton Morrison upfront on a free transfer has been my shout for weeks now, but I don't think it will happen. You also have Rhys Murphy and Mark Randall at Arsenal whom are both very good prospects. My old man raves about Stoch at Chelsea, saying he's going to be a quality winger in the Arjen Robben mould. We also have a good relationship with Man Utd from previous transactions. They have a plethora of talent (obviously) which i'm sure S.A.F would allow out on loan to develop. I'm a fan of the loan system. If it can bring success to my club (Foster & Johnson on loan) aswell as develop young quality talent, i'm all for it! With the current climate in the transfer market, we could end up with players like Murphy and Lansbury on permanent deals in the future, as they'll never get a look in at Arsenal. Reading took both Harper and Sidwell from Arsenal many years ago. Look at them both now...both played key roles in Reading's promotion season and their first season in the Prem.
we do need to start looking at the youth of big clubs we can get some quality players who are hungry for first team football on loan. I think somebody like rhys murphy would be a brilliant signing
