Was there a weekly press conference today?

Bill Phuckingham and others usually have it all the internet by now?

 

Its on Twitter (Phil Buckingham) - sounds like Macca to Palace is a done deal

 

king? not coming yet because of dad's lad dazzer i suppose?

 

Don't see why we are wasting our loan spaces on another keeper, we could do with a winger instead. Anyone know if the Fuller rumours are true?

 

would we not leave a loan signing until the last minute to get the maximum days of the loan. not sure how these things work, but no point having him on loan until he can play

 

thanks for that ,never really understood the different loans or why.

 

Wasting a spot? How many players do we have on loan?

I think you can have 8 at the club at a time (4 long term, 4 emergency loan), and 5 in the matchday squad. If we get to the point where we've got a keeper and 4 outfield players on loan that we want in the matchday squad then we'll stick Peet on the bench and leave one of the keepers out. Until then it's irrelevent, and it doesn't mean the next game we wouldn't put the other loanee in goal if we needed to.

 

It goes back to before the transfer windows were introduced. The long term, either full or half season loans are the ones that are proper loans and they have to start/finish in transfer windows. They can be international or domestic.

Emergency loans have to be domestic. They're the 93 day limit ones which as the name suggests are meant to be for emergencies, where clubs have had an injury crisis leaving them short of numbers. In principle it's when you're down to 1 senior keeper available, or I think it was 14 outfield players (regardless of position) so that you could name 16 on a matchday. That would mean with our squad we could be without Hobbs, Chester, Rosenior, Dawson and Dudgeon and it would be ruled that we should play midfielders in defence because we had enough other players available.

When the transfer windows were introduced the Football League and FA decided they wouldn't be tight on that and allow clubs to bypass the FIFA rules by signing players without a crisis. I think they took the decision to allow them for the number of games we play compared to foreign leagues and the sheer size of our domestic setup (92+ pro clubs). It's better for them to let clubs have small squads and sign players when they want them them than to have all the clubs needing excessively large squads and even more strained finances. Clubs, including us though have taken the piss and signed players in October on "emergency" loans when we've aleady agreed and signed off on permanent deals for January (Paynter and Collins).

 

got it now , i think,

 

I'll test you next week.