If a player is on a season loan can they be bought in the January Window by another club i.e. not the one where the player is on loan.
The reason I ask is I have been told by an unrealiable source that we are looking at Andy King currently on loan at Rangers

brexit wrote:If a player is on a season loan can they be bought in the January Window by another club i.e. not the one where the player is on loan.
The reason I ask is I have been told by an unrealiable source that we are looking at Andy King currently on loan at Rangers

Depends on the terms of his loan agreement I guess. If someone has agreed a season long loan with a loan fee etc then that would be a contract that could not be broken without agreement of both parties - they could do a deal to release him to sell to another club I suppose.

As for signing Andy King - hope this is not true. Not seen how he has played for Rangers but the fact he went up to play in that league does not bode well. We need to be looking at better and younger than him.

A standard loan deal will have a call back option in January.

Has he actually been playing up at Rangers? Didn't realise he was up there. Unless Drinkwater is going back I don't think it's a position we'll be looking to strengthen anyway.

A quick look shows he has only made 5 appearances for Rangers, 2 league, 2 league cup and 1 Europa league.

Don't know why this is but if it is because he isn't good enough for them, then he certainly isn't good enough for us.

My question about loan players is why do we bother?

Would be a signing which highlights how much we struggle in the market

Andy King was a decent player 4yrs ago but then so was Scottie Arfield and I wouldn't want him back either

dougcollins wrote:My question about loan players is why do we bother?

In case we find the next Michael Keane type loan signing and bag ourselves £25m profit

Goobs wrote:A quick look shows he has only made 5 appearances for Rangers, 2 league, 2 league cup and 1 Europa league.

Don't know why this is but if it is because he isn't good enough for them, then he certainly isn't good enough for us.

Going off his previous history he's probably injured.

dougcollins wrote:My question about loan players is why do we bother?

To plug a gap.

Other than Keane, who we tried to buy first anyway, and was always a loan to buy, then there has been very little in terms of impact, quality ir value for money.

But Sean's style and he says so himself isn't condusive to the loan market

dougcollins wrote:My question about loan players is why do we bother?

Ben Mee
Keiran Trippier
Sam Vokes
Michael Keane to name but 4 ....

Want me to go on

Bosscat wrote:Ben Mee
Keiran Trippier
Sam Vokes
Michael Keane to name but 4 ....

Want me to go on

Are we just to ignore the much bigger list?

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dougcollins wrote:Are we just to ignore the much bigger list?

Kightly, Cork, Cahill ...

No club has success with every player they loan but I think we have done pretty well.

Bosscat wrote:Ben Mee
Keiran Trippier
Sam Vokes
Michael Keane to name but 4 ....

Want me to go on

Come on boss, you know how it works. We ignore the ones that worked out for us and highlight the ones that didn't

You could at least limit it to SD's tenure.

Not saying we haven't done well in the past, it just hasn't been too good under Dyche.

claretonthecoast1882 wrote:Come on boss, you know how it works. We ignore the ones that worked out for us and highlight the ones that didn't

Sorry m8 I forgot that Have been away and am slightly out of the loop

Goobs wrote:A quick look shows he has only made 5 appearances for Rangers, 2 league, 2 league cup and 1 Europa league.

Don't know why this is but if it is because he isn't good enough for them, then he certainly isn't good enough for us.

Agree. Barton was useless.

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Agree. Barton was useless.

Barton was good enough for Rangers he just had a bust up which stopped him from playing, but of course you knew that.

If King has been doing the same hence his lack of game time then you may have a point, however my original point still stands.

dougcollins wrote:My question about loan players is why do we bother?

Pretty obvious really, we sign them to act as cover as we have seen in recent years with Chalobah, Flanagan, Bamford & NKoudou.

ClaretTony wrote:Pretty obvious really, we sign them to act as cover as we have seen in recent years with Chalobah, Flanagan, Bamford & NKoudou.

To be honest if that’s why we have signed Drinkwater it’s expensive cover, when we had David Jones who could have been signed to fulfill the cover role

Dy1geo wrote:To be honest if that’s why we have signed Drinkwater it’s expensive cover, when we had David Jones who could have been signed to fulfill the cover role

I didn't include Drinkwater because I think he came in because we knew we were not going to have Defour. Unfortunately, for the obvious reasons, that one hasn't quite worked out as yet.