Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Have we ever had so many loan players at the same time before? We may have, but I’m not sure when we’ve had three of them in our first choice starting eleven. Strictly speaking, with Wintle and Watters returning, it was like having five new players against Forest and so there may have been a bit of good luck involved that they all gelled so well, but I think that newness to our side caught Forest out to some extent because they didn’t know what to expect from us.

Great credit goes to our manager and the recruitment team who managed to bring in two of the sort of players I’d given up on us getting under previous managers in Drameh and Doyle and you’d like to think that having done it in January when there’s probably less players at Premier League clubs of comparable quality available, we should be able to get more good loanee in the summer assuming Morison and the recruitment people are still in a job.
The trouble with loanees in the summer, is some of the better players might not go out until the very end of the window - if they are on the fringes of their squad then many teams will want to wait until they know if they sign their targets and who they lose before seeing if they can release them.

Similarly we got Harry Wilson out of the blue on transfer deadline day because they were looking for a permanent transfer but it fell through.

With so many players to need to bring in we can't afford to leave it too late.

They've shown that we can put a good case (and powerpoint presentation) together for some of the more discerning clubs, so that will hopefully stand us in good stead in getting more loanees in. (I dread to think what kind of powerpoint we would have put together under Warnock)

We also need to be looking at out of contract players sooner rather than later - there are lots who would do a job for us.