| Loan players - best and worst 13:30 - Feb 3 with 6412 views | headhoops |
All these new loan players got us talking about some of the best and worst we could recall.
Kyle Walker and Fredericho Macheda for example - polar opposites.
Andros Townsend and Mark Kennedy in the plus camp Gus Caesar in the worst ever category. Any particular favourites spring to mind?
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| Loan players - best and worst on 13:39 - Feb 3 with 5452 views | daveB |
Lee Cook, Adel Taarabt, Wayne Routledge and Danny Shittu would be my top ones on top of Walker and Townsend.
Too many to mention for the crap ones but Callum Willock was stand out rubbish |  | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 13:40 - Feb 3 with 5451 views | loftboy |
Gus Caesar is and will be the worst by a country mile. Macheda in recent times was shit as was Scott Sinclair [Post edited 3 Feb 2014 13:40]
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| Loan players - best and worst on 13:48 - Feb 3 with 5405 views | runningman75 |
Mark Kennedy was my favourite loan player as a youngster. Townsend most recent favourite showed a work ethic which other " better players" did not have.
Is Monday so do not want to put up anything negative about worst loan players though will enjoy reading others posts. |  | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 13:52 - Feb 3 with 5400 views | BasingstokeR |
Almost every loan I can remember getting from Man Utd being disappointing.
Mancienne was alright on loan. Jimmy Smith and Jay Simpson had a successful initial loan periods.
Maybe Parejo on the bad list? Was Di Carmine a loan? And definitely - the "ABC Loan" was probably the worst Loan of all. |  | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 14:00 - Feb 3 with 5390 views | gordanoR |
Bob Malcolm. |  | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 14:05 - Feb 3 with 5380 views | simmo |
I remember Ephraim doing well on loan, especially given his age. Routledge was class for us in the promotion year. Walker was probbaly the most successful, he was the best player on the pitch practically every game he played. |  |
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| Loan players - best and worst on 14:15 - Feb 3 with 5342 views | Neil_SI |
I was disappointed we were unable to make Mark Kennedy permanent, but that was probably wishful thinking at the time. Jerome Thomas was another good loan signing and they were both the kind of players, after a few hard years, that you remembered what it was like to have that extra bit of quality back in the squad.
Akos Buzsaky — albeit a bit of a cheat loan signing — has to be regarded as one of the best because of the impact he had in that period. In fact, after he became permanent, I don't think he reached the same heights again. He had a glorious spell under Luigi De Canio.
Kyle Walker was the other one, who after seeing five minutes of his debut against Ipswich, the first thing that came out of my mouth was "we need to sign this kid now".
I'm in the minority when it comes to Andros Townsend, he had a decent spell with us of course, but was neither here or there about him becoming a permanent addition to the squad, and think he's just one of those impact players who is going to have good and bad spells, and whose directness suits certain types of matches. So I wasn't overly fussed and still think he will be found out quite easily at top level.
And of course, plenty of other names mentioned here, that are worth a little nod to as well. Lee Camp definitely deserves a mention too. [Post edited 3 Feb 2014 14:17]
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| Loan players - best and worst on 14:15 - Feb 3 with 5340 views | Metallica_Hoop |
Leon Best wasn't much cop.
I agree with the ones mentioned, Jah Bob's debut was one of the funniest things I've seen for ages. |  |
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| Loan players - best and worst on 14:21 - Feb 3 with 5314 views | MrSheen |
Jerome Thomas and Darren Ward were very lively in some grim sides.
Robert Taylor was perhaps the worst striker I've ever seen for us, fat and useless. Paul Furlong was pretty ho-hum when he first came on loan, which may have created some of the intial hostility to him. |  | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 14:28 - Feb 3 with 5299 views | N12Hoop |
Karl Walker and Wayne Routledge had a big part to play in our promotion. Wasn't Adel on loan that season as well?
Re the worst, didn't we have a couple of dreadful wolves players (keeper and left back) to throw into the mix?
Gus Caesar however will live in the memory forever. He was a player that gave everyone hope that they too could make it as a professional footballer. |  |
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| Loan players - best and worst on 14:31 - Feb 3 with 5284 views | Clive_Anderson |
Wasn't Brett Angel on loan? I can't believe even we'd have signed him on a permanent deal. We've had some absolute cack over the years.
I seem to remember Michel Beck being rubbish as well.
Jerome Thomas was ace in the year we finished outside the play-offs in the third tier. | | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 14:39 - Feb 3 with 5266 views | WestminsteRs |
Carl Leaburn was terrible.
Mark Kennedy was a shining star in a very dark period. |  | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 14:49 - Feb 3 with 5242 views | smegma |
Mark Kennedy by a country mile with a mention of Kyle Walker.
Ditto Gus Caesar who just beats Bob Malcolm, the only thing Caesar won in hoops. | | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 15:20 - Feb 3 with 5201 views | BasingstokeR |
Leon Best got directly in the way of and blocked more goals for us than he had shots himself in that loan spell he had with us. | | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 15:34 - Feb 3 with 5187 views | hoops_legend |
Marcus Bent is the answer to both
Worst - For his play on the pitch. He was awful
Best - He told Neil Warnock that we had too many loan signings in the match day squad and one had to be taken out. Bent was sacrificed and we won. If he hadn't done that we would have been docked points and this is the season we were close to going down. |  | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 16:16 - Feb 3 with 5167 views | gordanoR |
Idiakez was pretty good & got us out of a hole if I remember rightly. | | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 16:24 - Feb 3 with 5147 views | paulparker |
| Loan players - best and worst on 16:16 - Feb 3 by gordanoR |
Idiakez was pretty good & got us out of a hole if I remember rightly. |
Best- Walker,Routledge, Shittu,kennedy,Darren Ward, rowan vine, Cranie,
Worst- Ceaser, Jason Jarrett, calum Willock,Rossi(gk) Malcolm, Robert Taylor, leon best, the wolves players signed at the last minute against Leeds(was that ollys last game ??) |  |
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| Loan players - best and worst on 16:24 - Feb 3 with 5147 views | Metallica_Hoop |
| Loan players - best and worst on 16:16 - Feb 3 by gordanoR |
Idiakez was pretty good & got us out of a hole if I remember rightly. |
I forgot about him.
Scored a blinding free-kick as I recall. | |
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| Loan players - best and worst on 22:16 - Feb 3 with 5061 views | Vish |
Can't remember if he was a loan but Aziz Ben Askari was excellent.
Ben Sahar one of the worst | | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 23:44 - Feb 3 with 5031 views | hamptonhillhoop |
Paul Walsh in the days when loan deals only lasted two games. I'm sure he had a game against Chelsea in the early 90's |  | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 04:39 - Feb 4 with 4983 views | FredManRave |
Most effective, Ishmael Miller with his last gasp winner against Leicester having come on as a sub. |  |
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| Loan players - best and worst on 08:55 - Feb 4 with 4919 views | CiderwithRsie |
Hitchcock? | | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 09:08 - Feb 4 with 4906 views | CiderwithRsie |
In hindsight, I'm not sure whether Mark Kennedy would have been the answer to our prayers. But in a period when we just seemed to get worse and worse, my God he stood out.
By contrast, the worst ones for me aren't the likes of Caesar or Malcolm - just honest to God rubbish players - it's players like Sinclair or Parejo who have real talent but can't be arsed to use it when they are on loan.
Interesting piece in the Indie on Sunday contrasting Townsend's career, and how loans worked for him, and Adam Smith from the same Spurs youth team, whose career has bombed. But part of it I think is that with big clubs hoovering up all the young talent before they have shown they can cut it, players often still have to work their way up the leagues [same as Austin has in a more traditional way] but do it on loan. I think players like Townsend get that; as far as I can see Little Tom does too. Others go all big-time when they've not yet earned it. Who can blame them - they're still just kids really. | | | |
| Loan players - best and worst on 09:33 - Feb 4 with 4897 views | enfieldargh |
Tamas Priskin.
He scored one goal at that was about it |  |
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| Loan players - best and worst on 10:58 - Feb 4 with 4881 views | EalingRanger |
Ben Sahar was properly pants. |  | | |
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