Player development - Loan or not

[JD23]

I’ve signed Endrick, and some other ‘wonder kids’ - as a top premier league club with the best facilities and coaches is it generally better to keep wonderkids at the club even if they only play a handful of games in a season, OR better to loan them out?

[ImDaWeasel]

If they are over 18 and not going to participate in 75% of your first team games then loan out to a club that'll play them every week.

[busngabb]

1 hour ago, JD23 said:

I’ve signed Endrick, and some other ‘wonder kids’ - as a top premier league club with the best facilities and coaches is it generally better to keep wonderkids at the club even if they only play a handful of games in a season, OR better to loan them out?

It depends. If they are very young, 15-17 keep them at your club and train and develop them on double intensity, focusing on their weakest stats that are important for their role. If they are 18+ and not getting gametime you really need to loan them out, but choose the club with the best facilities and insist on a loan deal which specifies they will start regularly and hammer the other teams manager if that doesn't happen. Nothing causes a player to waste away more than loaning him out to a club with lesser facilities who don't play him.

If your players are overseas players who require a work permit, again loan them out or you'll struggle to get them a work permit on renewal. I've been stung by that a few times, signed foreign youngsters, developed them and about to bring them into the first team, only for them to have their work permit rejected when I renewed their contract.

 

[DMVian]

I don't think there is a "correct" answer, just as there isn't a "correct" answer in real life.

My rule is if they're age appropriate for U18/U19, I keep them there.

If I have a reserve team, it depends on performance. If they're dominating on my reserve team and I don't have a slot to move them up into 1st team consistently, I try to loan. Or if I'm overloaded at a slot, I loan out.

Also a case-by-case. If I try to move someone but only lowly clubs want them, I keep them around. If I think a player is developing but then a solid club in my tier or tier below with good facilities proactively offers to take them on loan with strong playing time promised, then they're gone.

Edited November 7, 2022 by DMVian

[FrazT]

I keep young players in house till they are home grown, then will loan them out to a league 1 level below the one that I am playing in, as long as they get regular starter status.  I do not entertain a squad status below regular starter as I cant see the point if they are not getting regular games.