My understanding of the loan system is that it is there to enable players to get experience of playing, and for the parent club to assess the player's abilities. By loaning the player to another PL club, the parent club is, effectively, stating that they believe the player to be good enough to play in the Prem; that being the case, the parent club ought to put the player in its own squad, rather than palming that player off to another club, as part of a strategy to manipulate the odds within the league.
I think players should be at a club for two years before they can be loaned. This would allow academy players to go on loan to gain experience of first team football but stop the ridiculous practice of rich clubs buying young players, sometimes just to stop others buying them, and immediately sending them to their pet clubs.
Just watch the amount of bend Bale puts on this!.. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ngle-in-training-with-the-outside-of-his-boot
Spain 11th, Holland 12th, Italy 16th!! Oh, and France 24th. I'm not convinced they are very meaningful. I'd back any of the above three to beat Wales 8 or 9 times out of 10.
It's interesting to see how much impact Bale's made for his national side, as Ronaldo and Messi play for better teams, but with less of oomph, generally. I'm sure that says something, but I've absolutely no idea what!
If he behaves similarly with us it's not hard to see why Pochettino doesn't want him anywhere near the pitch.
It's abundantly clear that he's simply fallen out of whatever love he ever had for the game. All the soap opera with his family members and juju and supposed conversion to Islam then back to Christianity and quite clearly obsessed with money... If he really cared about his God given talent none of those things would affect him quite as much as they do. I can see Balotelli being exactly the same in 5 years. It's a shame because on his day he's up there with the best strikers in the world, he just never had the graft or willpower to stay there.
I’ve thought for a while Adebayor has some psychological problems. Everyone laughed about the "sign from God" quote. Well, everybody believed that 300 years ago. Adebayor was born into a world which in important ways is centuries removed from ours. He may be suffering from trying to live both in that world and this one. I have plenty of sympathy for Balotelli as well. Imagine being one of Italy’s pioneer non-white sports stars. How many racist words and gestures do you think it would take to drive you a little buggy? How many do you think he’s seen and heard?
There is an article in the Independent about the re-branding of Ryanair. In order to attract 'posher' customers they are changing their brash 'Chelsea blue' to a calmer 'Spurs blue', in their livery and uniforms, and reducing the amount of aggressive yellow. Take that Chavs.
