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Ian Holloway

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    <laugh> ooooo arrrrrr!
     
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    Just read the blog, and while it is a fairly balanced piece, two parts stuck out for me...

    Firstly, these two quotes seem to contradict each other...

    "But according to Football League rules, only 18-year-old Chalobah is counted in the Hornets&#8217; loanee quota. Why? Because, despite stating that a maximum of five can be included in a matchday squad, foreign loan deals are counted as transfers and therefore don&#8217;t count."

    "Effectively a team could win promotion to the Premier League with a whole team of loanees at questionable cost. Something just ain&#8217;t right."

    How can you have a whole team of loanees if only 5 can be included in a matchday squad? I assume he means international loanees? Even then don't you have to have so many homegrown players in your squad?

    Secondly...

    "while the emphatic emergence of powerful England Under-21 midfielder Chalobah has energised their promotion charge. It was he who nodded the opener against Holloway&#8217;s Palace."

    Odd, I'm sure it was Almen Abdi?
     
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    The strange thing about all this is that the finger is pointed to Watford to taking advantage of a loophole in the FL rules but any other team in the league could do the exact thing as us.

    If I was the manager of CPFC I could ask my scouts to go abroad and look at getting in an unlimited amount of loan signings. No one is stopping any club from doing this.
     
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