- Jun 29, 2007
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I would be all for loaning out players to Championship or lower for the likes of Lankshear, Donley etc, who needs to start getting used to men's football and playing in bigger arenas.I just think hes going to get less minutes in when it comes to the crunch stages of the Europa and FA Cups potentially as we are pretty stacked in our central areas so if he could be playing every week it we should take the opportunity. Quite a lot of disrespect being thrown at the championship, alot of the top teams there are playing decent football and its not plain sailing in them final 3rd roles so he would still learn alot there.
However, the thing with Bergvall is that he has already played 2 years of senior football in Sweden. Now, the quality might be lower in the Swedish league, but it is a physically demanding league and many teams did all they could to rough him up.
I think he will learn more from playing against tougher opponents and better teammates & learning Ange's system than to go out on loan this season and then we can re-evaluate in the summer.
In addition, we can get all the promises we want but there is an inherent risk with loans as well. Many were hoping for a Championship loan for Donley, and he is currently spending a lot of time on the bench for a team placed 20th in League 1.