I've created this thread in the hope that we can find something concrete (ideally authoritative website links) explaining what the loan rules are when dealing with foreign clubs. I've got no knowledge on the topic whatsoever, other than looking at what happened with Hearts and guessing that it would be a similar situation for us. Hopefully someone reading this will help us work it out.
Do you have a bit of time on your hands NNW? This looks like a good starting point. http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/RulesandRegulations/FARegulations/NewsAndFeatures/2002/22791.aspx I may be wrong but I think that the Pozzos have transfered players between clubs for a year, then transfered them back. A loan or a transfer? If that is wrong I apologize in advance, but there has been a lot of reading over the past few days.
probably a very stupid question but can players be signed to dual clubs across different federations?
I do not think so. The Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano deal at West Ham rather found that sort of thing out with the involvement of Kia Joorabchian, playing for two teams, trying to sign for a third and their contracts being held by a company (Media Sports Investments) who were nothing to do with any football club.
But there are plenty of precedents - or am I misunderstanding aberdeen's question? We've had our own loan from overseas in recent years - Alexandrs Cauna & there are plenty in the EPL - Gylfi Sigurdsson springs to mind.
I'm wondering if its possible to have a simultaneous registration with Udinese, Watford and Grenada so a player could play for any of the three in domestic football without a loan agreement?
Can't see that that scenario would be possible - if it were, surely there would be much publicity around any such case? Plus, you would think that the expensive benches in the EPL - full of non-playing squad players - wouldn't exist either. It does exist in other sports though - after a fashion. In Oz rugby league, players can sign for two clubs, one in the NRL and another feeder club in a seperate league.
The only limit is what the FA say. Where the source is does not matter but Udinese and Granada would be separate teams even when the owners are the same.
