Hey guys, well i am currently writing an article about how at times the Football League can be seen to just be a feeder club for Premier League teams, and i just wondered is there any clubs in paticular you feel you have become closer to? Any clubs you have regular loanee's from. And how many did you have in total last season? I know its random but i just want to make sure i get my facts right about each club so i have numbers for each division. Really appreciated, and i hope you don't take this as spam i do take my individual articles seriously and i do enjoy the research aspect, so helps welcome
Leeds United will never be anyone's feeder club and nor will we ever be anything close to it. The closest you could say we'd got was selling Fabian Delph to Aston Villa and them subsequently sending us Barry Bannan, Eric Lichaj and Shane Lowry on loan over the last two seasons, possibly under the supervision of our ex-boss Gary McAllister. I don't really see that as us being in any kind of partnership with them (formal or informal), it's just a coincidence that they have a good production line of young players, we're forced often to rely on Premiership loans and we have a decent contact in their club. For a list of the players we loaned last season, Wikipedia's list here is accurate I believe. The total therefore is 11 loanees. Four of those (Lichaj, O'Brien, McCartney, Watt) made over 10 appearances, and we signed O'Brien on a permanent deal in January. All in all, it was a failure and a last resort due to us not being well enough funded to be active in the permanent transfer market. Let us know when you've written the article.
