A look at Boro's loan signings since coming down in 2017

Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
Jack Harrison went on to win promotion as an important member of the Leeds team. Not playing him was just Pulis being an idiot. Did we have him at the same time as Traore? Imagine how dangerous traore would have been if they had to look after our other side as well.

Our loan signings since relegation have been bad. Prior to that we've used the market well. Fuchs, carbone, zenden, centre back from Chelsea, centre back who scored in the play offs, Bamford, Frederick's, Kalas, Geremi.

A lot of our post relegation signings have been bad also. I would put that down to the manager a lot of times. Our scouting team have unearthed some real gems. The less we spend the better they seem to do.
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It's true that, about resources. I remember my best friend's Dad, a lifelong Stoke fan, saying something about Gary Rowett when he'd just been sacked as Stoke manager. "He's a resources manager. Give him a group of decent pros and he'll get you in the top half and do well, but give him £30m and he hasn't got a clue what to do with and loses his head and it turns to sh*t."

I think the same is true of Boro. Our best business was Mowbray picking players up for peanuts when we had next to nothing to spend, Karanka wheeling and dealing a bit in his first 18 months, Warnock picking up Crooks and Watmore. Even Woodgate with Bola and Dijksteel. Wilder with Lenihan will probably be the same.
 
Danny Batth was quality, Neeskens Kebano probably our best loan since we’ve come down and Oriel Hernandez did well too.
 
Besic's first spell under Pulis was decent though tailed off a bit at the end. I would rate him 6-7
Bolasie did ok but not as well as I think we all hoped, especially as we were probably paying Premier league wages for him. Probably rate him around 6.
Batth was definitely the only loan who was good from start to finish; probably a 7-8
Roberts looked exciting for his first few games but actually did very little and started just as our brief golden spell under Woodgate went south.
I have a nagging feeling that Sporar got hit by post-viral fatigue and then lost faith. The first half of the season he looked decent if not prolific.
 
We've had a lot more failures than successes over the years,but let's list a few success stories.
Robbie Mustoe
George Friend
Bernie Slaven
Mark Viduka
Mark Schwarzer
Grant Leadbitter
Juninho
French Frank
Graeme Souness
Many many more
 
Canyoudigit said:
We've had a lot more failures than successes over the years,but let's list a few success stories.
Robbie Mustoe
George Friend
Bernie Slaven
Mark Viduka
Mark Schwarzer
Grant Leadbitter
Juninho
French Frank
Graeme Souness
Many many more
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I didn't realise we loaned all those players.
Apart from Juninho the second time.
 
We've had some shockers 😂

Forest are a prime example of getting it right. Then again none of them are with them now.

Besic looked class for 4-5 months.

I'd say Bolasie surprised me. I openly admit I wrote him off prior to signing him.
 
Jack Harrison sold for £11m and scored some important goals for leeds inc keeping them in the prem

Lewis baker loaned all over but got 8 goals for Stoke last season
 
TeaCider said:
Disagree.

If scoring in one game makes you a success, then Connolly and Balogun were successes.

If we'd lost against Reading, the one game Roberts did anything, we'd still have stayed up by a point.
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You disagree with most things to be honest.

It also wasn’t the one game he did anything in.
 
newyddion said:
Thought he was canny
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I thought he'd be a great signing for us, but I don't think it worked at all.

In fairness to him, I think a large part of that will have been because we signed a winger and played him as wingback under Warnock and then as a second striker under Wilder, which obviously isn't going to make it easy to succeed.
 
I wouldn't have wanted to sign permanently any of those loan players at the time of the loan.

And people who say Besic was good in his first spell must have been watching a different player to me.
 
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