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vimhawk said:
Thanks everyone - very glad people are so well informed and happy to hear this information which is new to me.

My thoughts for today however is about loaning players to other teams *in the same league*. Yes I know we have benefited from this in the past, but this does not make it right. The system is set up for potential (if not current) abuse by the super rich teams collecting players that they can't possibly play, almost so a competitor doesn't pick them up. Having then collected enough players for 2 or 3 teams, they then loan them out with the effective result being that they are indeed playing more than 11 players at a time for each round of matches. Sure they are technically playing for other teams, but since they can't (and obviously shouldn't) play against their parent club the effect is not too much different from being a kind of agent for their parent team. How many players have Chelski got at other clubs? Last season is was some ludicrous amount, but this season aren't there 2 or 3 in the PL? Wondering therefore what you chaps think about this process?
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Loan players should be allowed to play against their parent clubs imo.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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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! <laugh>
 
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.
 
Scotland clearly the better team but in the great Scottish tradition they go a goal behind.
 
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?
 
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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.
 
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