FIFA tightens up transfer rules: the matter of players on loan – player advisors: "out of step with actual practice"
Berlin if you cannot play in your own team, you will be loaned out. The professional gains playing practice, the club collects money again. But some are overdoing it, says one player consultant.
By jens marx, dpa
Until the end of the winter transfer window on the 31st of December. January such formulations are likely to continue to be popular: player XY needs more playing time, which we are currently unable to offer him.
Or: the loan is a good option for both sides at this point in time. Everyone does it in the Bundesliga, everyone does it in international business.
Borrow players from other clubs, who are not used there, but often cost a lot of money. loaning out players who are not likely to be considered in your own squad, but who can bring in a bit of money through a temporary deal. "if someone wants to keep up in the game of the big ones, then he also starts to get creative," says renowned german player consultant roger wittmann (61) in a dpa interview.
chelsea FC currently has 21 players on loan
In some places they are just a little too creative from the point of view of the world governing body FIFA. chelsea FC, for example, lists – as of friday – 21 professionals on its homepage under loan players. Among them no less than three goalkeepers alone. The so-called "loan army" of the club from london has been legendary for years. At atalanta bergamo, the list of loaned professionals is much longer. Since this week, the German national player robin gosens, loaned to inter Milan with an option to buy after this season, also belongs to it.
60 players on loan or something like that would also be too much, wittmann said, that would be without a concept. But the fact that FIFA now wants to tighten up the rules for loan deals is very displeasing to the player advisor, especially in these difficult times of the coronavirus. "i believe that this is completely out of practice. Any club in need, especially in times of pandemic, must be able to do what it wants," said wittmann, not without adding that he couldn’t see anything that FIFA had ever done well. "these are all things that are unworldly."
In detail, FIFA wants to know from the 1. July to the loan time limit and also limit the number of players. The duration must then be at least the period between two registration periods and may not exceed one year. Loaned professionals may not be loaned to third clubs. a club is only allowed to loan three players to a given club during a season and the total number per season is supposed to be eight professionals loaned and eight loaned out. From the 1. july 2024 becomes des again down to in each case only six players. professionals up to 21 years of age and players that a club has trained itself are not covered by the rule.
Loans offer opportunities, but also risks
"i believe that the pandemic is forcing many to rely on young players, and that this will help the young players. That you loan out the players that are less costly and give the young ones a greater chance," said wittmann. All clubs would try to free themselves somewhere especially in the pandemic. "then this business must also be allowed."
But whether all this is actually always so good for the development of players – it remains at least questionable. The advantages of being able to gain playing experience elsewhere are evident. The disadvantages of not being able to gain a foothold in a club should at least not go unmentioned.
one example of this is the Bundesliga, which, with its rather moderate number of players on loan, is not likely to be so badly affected by the stricter rules. At the 1. FC union berlin center forward taiwo awoniyi matured into top goal scorer this season. It blossoms at the old forsterei. Awoniyi has come home to roost after years on loan since joining liverpool FC from nigeria in august 2015.
the reds loaned awoniyi to FSV frankfurt, NEC nijmegen from the netherlands, royal mouscron and KAA gent, to the 1. FSV mainz 05 and finally to the unioner from. Last summer, the eisernen bought awoniyi from liverpool FC. "i am happy to finally arrive and have a home after the many loan stops in the past few years," was how the main man put it at the time.