Willock has been the biggest victim of the switch back to the three sub rule

Klaus wrote:

Should have sent him on loan. We've been very anti-loan this year. I wonder if it's because no one can afford loan fees anymore.

Yeah he's at an age where he needs 35 games this season. He'd be lucky to hit double digits staying here.

I think he will play more games than Nelson, which really don't bode well for Reiss. We are going to fuck up both their developments and hopefully not Saliba as well

Don’t think there’s an exact science to this when it comes to loan time leading to better development. I’m not averse to it, and I’m sure the rule of thumb would tend generally towards the more exposure and experience a player gets the better for them, but there are players who stay in the squad without going out on loan and it doesn’t hurt their development. In fact if they are in teams that have quality players they can get good mentor ship and learn from the people playing in their future position. See Phil Foden.

No need to rush anything, it’s a long season and we are in lots of comps- their time will come. We sent Nelson on loan and Eddie too, neither seemed to improve much from their time away from us for various reasons, but the latter is here and showing he’s a useful player when he gets a chance.

We sent Eddie away and then he came back and started games for us right away. Appreciate that the loan didn't go as planned, but I think the whole experience was still very beneficial to him. It was still better for his development than Emery keeping him for a year and never including him in any match-day squads.

Yeah Eddie did a great job maturing on his loan even if it didn't look like the loan was a success. Nelson had a good loan but looks like he needs an English one now. I wouldn't say the lack of loan right now is going to ruin them but its a missed opportunity.

As for Foden he's younger than both of them and starting league games.

Spurs have signed Joe Rondon from Swansea. They’ve had a decent window spurs, two full backs, CB, CM and two signings upfront on loan. Jury is out on some of those players but they haven’t spent a lot so even it doesn’t work out they’ll recover most of what they’ve paid.

If spurs can properly integrate Ndombele in they’ll be really strong this season.

when is the loan deadline?

That would be last night. Benrahma was the big #DeadlineDay2 departure

14 days later

Atletico signs Kondogbia for 20m euros, 1 month after the window closed. Spanish rules are so weird

Ridiculous that they left it so late for sure. They have no business being angry at us when they're doing the same thing to Valencia, except worse. At least we had made our interest known all summer.

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