I agree with everything you say here. However, i still wish we has RLC on loan for this season.

i dont agree with your stance.

loans usually suit all parties, but nowadays were just doing it on a larger scale, we used to get james vaughan & forsell. now we get players like RLC. max meyer will be filling the cabaye role when he gets his slot full time.

i agree we miss RLC, but i would rather have had him for a season & miss him when he leaves than never having seen him play in red & blue.

the mistake fans made was pinning their hopes on RLC coming back.

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

Sorry disagree. I agree with Braunstone. Never heard people moan when we loaned Paul Stewart, who helped us win promotion but was never going to sign for us.

i would suggest RLC is not over-rated, you are however of course correct he didnt score or set up bucketloads of goals but he was so strong & assured in possession, also you could tell wilf absolutly loved playing alonngside him.

when he really got into his stride 2nd half of the season he really was a class above anybody else doing that job in our team.

the thing i do like about loaning players is lets say he cost us £5m last season, he is a £30m player allday long and reslly that is actually a smart way of imrpoving your squad for a season.

you could also argue that loaning sakho really was the difference in us staying up or getting relegated season before last.

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

Don’t agree that he’s overrated.... think he fits the system well and he doesn’t look like he’ll be playing much at Chelsea he might as well come back.. agree that will suit and help Wilf.....

I definitely get that sentiment but how often do managers, players and ex-players talk about familiarity with teammates being a huge factor.

When you get someone like RLC in you basically have a 10% chance of getting them permanently, if that. Hoping for such a player to be really successful at the club seems totally counter intuitive to me.

Its the ultimate in short term, lack of "joined up" thinking. If the guy does well, especially in the opponents half, then he disappears there is going to be a hangover period.

Just watch that Leicester game, I know its only 1 game, and their heads dropped and they went down to 10, but the way we passed and moved in that game was a million miles from what we saw yesterday.

We havent replaced Cabaye which is criminal (we have some career criminals working in our player recruitment dept) but the lack of power, dynamism, great passing and forward thinking from RLC is really hurting us.

We had so long to replace both players and we failed, based on how things look currently. I would rather just have 1 hole in midfield, rather than a 2nd one which is self inflicted.

Time to have a long term strategy at our club, and that should not include loaning world class players we cannot buy IMHO.

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