Are Loans the New Graveyard for Out-of-Favour Footballers?

A summer full of exciting transfer activity soon awaits us, with City rumoured to be in for a number of top class players over the next few months. However, to make room for the new ‘stars’ at Eastlands, departures will inevitably occur.

Over the years at City we’ve seen a number of players go out on loan, perhaps because they are young and could do with experience holding down a first team place, or because the competition is too fierce to break into the Blue’s starting 11.

However, in today’s day and age it’s almost as if a loan move away from the club signals that a player’s career at the City of Manchester Stadium is swiftly coming to end. There used to be a time where a young, bright footballer would be loaned out to a team who were maybe a few divisions lower to give them an opportunity to experience first team football. Usually they would then return with some useful experience under their belt and make an attempt to stamp their mark on the first team. Whereas today, we see players being loaned out frequently, and never returning to try and make a name for themselves at City.

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