Posted by admin | Posted in Football Talk | Posted on 07-03-2010
The loan of Landon Donovan to Everton leads me to ask: How is it that a professional football player can be “loaned” to another team for only part of a season? Doesn’t that put an asterisk next to that team’s standings at the end of the season (for example, “LIverpool won the Premier League that year, with the help of Wayne Superstar and Tommy Terrific, who were with them for part of the season)? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against the practice, just curious about it. Thanks!
its being signed on a temporary basis, so you are a part of that team for however long your loan is, and it doesn’t matter how much silverware is won, none of which is going to be won by liverpool O.O
There are some rules, loaned players can’t play against the team they got loaned from. There is no more of an asterisk then if a team buys a player in the winter transfer window to help their chances. Very rarely will a team loan a player to a team in the same league as they are. Sometimes Arsenal will loan a Wilshire to a relagated bound team like Bolton but usually they are to teams of another country or to teams of a lower division. It gives the player first team experience usually something he couldn’t do at the squad, either because their season is done or because they are low down on the pecking order, it lets the team who gets the player have a player they wouldn’t have otherwise been able to afford either because of wages or cost on the transfer market. The team who owns the rights to the player either gets a percentage of the wages back or at least at the end of the loan gets a player who has had first team experiences. It is a way so that everyone wins.
Typically a player who goes on loan will have all, or most of his wages paid by the club he’s loaned to, but they don’t have to pay a transfer fee. Most clubs won’t allow their players who are on loan to play in European or Fa Cup games because they then become “cup-tied” and can;t even play for their own team in future games if recalled.