Loan Rangers

[Sutton_blows_goats 6,220]

38 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

He wasn't included in the last update in March, either.

 

Weird.

Has only played 2 games or something, been injured most of the time. Hannover DoF said when they failed to win promotion they were only going to play guys who were going to be there next season.

 

The boy is a waste, we either get rid int he summer or make him train with the B team. Send him here, there and everywhere. And if he gets injured give him minimal treatment. He wont be our problem soon enough.

 

He might think its great rinsing us for 30k a week, but he is going into his last year and League 1 and 5k a week beckons after this unless he starts showing something.

[der Berliner 4,187]

2 hours ago, Rousseau said:

He wasn't included in the last update in March, either.

 

Weird.

Maybe they wouldn't want to bother us with these meagre stats ...

 

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/rabbi-matondo/leistungsdaten/spieler/404384

[JohnMc 3,224]

What's particularly disappointing is none of the 2019 Alkas Cup winning side have made the step up to our first team. There were boys in that side that really looked like they could make it, yet none of them have. 

Nathan Young-Coombes is currently without a club. Kai Kennedy was named player of the tournament, he plays for Queen Of The South now, Aaron Lyall at Morton, Ciaran Dickson is in prison, captain Kyle McClelland was released by Rangers and played for Coleraine this season. Adam Devine is still with us but for how much longer, and Lewis Budinauckas but as he can't get into the Thistle team on loan currently, I'm not confident he's displacing Kelly or Butland anytime soon. Alex Lowry was the one who probably had the best opportunity but he's currently not troubling the Wycombe Wanderers first team very often.

It's not too much to think that at least a couple of those players could have become decent squad players by now at least. You wonder if winning that tournament, and the adulation and expectation that followed it, was the worst thing that could happen to them. 

 

If Birmingham want to keep our players I can't imagine we'll be making that difficult for them. 

[buster. 5,658]

24 minutes ago, JohnMc said:

What's particularly disappointing is none of the 2019 Alkas Cup winning side have made the step up to our first team. There were boys in that side that really looked like they could make it, yet none of them have. 

Nathan Young-Coombes is currently without a club. Kai Kennedy was named player of the tournament, he plays for Queen Of The South now, Aaron Lyall at Morton, Ciaran Dickson is in prison, captain Kyle McClelland was released by Rangers and played for Coleraine this season. Adam Devine is still with us but for how much longer, and Lewis Budinauckas but as he can't get into the Thistle team on loan currently, I'm not confident he's displacing Kelly or Butland anytime soon. Alex Lowry was the one who probably had the best opportunity but he's currently not troubling the Wycombe Wanderers first team very often.

It's not too much to think that at least a couple of those players could have become decent squad players by now at least. You wonder if winning that tournament, and the adulation and expectation that followed it, was the worst thing that could happen to them. 

 

If Birmingham want to keep our players I can't imagine we'll be making that difficult for them. 

Good point, well made regarding The Alkas Cup winners.

 

 

Given pressure on management to win games then you can see why they may be reluctant to use youngsters. 

 

Add that to the regulations that mean the cream of the academies now being poached by well off English clubs, eg. Gilmour/Chelsea and Wilson/Villa.

 

We do the same with Rice/Motherwell but he just stagnates in a Scottish youth system that makes it harder still.

 

Difficult conundrum to solve.