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It was definitely the plan to re-loan mate, otherwise he would have been in the Hoffenheim and Leicester squads. Imagine he had offers but without guarantees he would start and if he's just going somewhere to be depth, he might as well be depth here.
That's a fair point about those 2 squads. Probably right they saw him training and liked what they saw, then looked at the loan offers and didn't like what they saw.
I wouldn't be surprised if there is a bit of both.
Yeah, assuming we can secure a good loan for Lankshear this makes good sense all around.
He didn’t look that physically developed when Poch arrived. In the book on Poch’s first season, everybody was weighed etc at the start of training. Harry was 18% body fat which is way over for a professional athlete. Most footballers are 10% or less . Poch soon knocked him into shape.
We've had a monstrously unsuccessful academy relative to our peers for years despite huge investment.
Delap is also over a year older
I take hope he's similar to Harry where he had plenty of loans most relativly meh ?but was never really expected to be as good as he turned out.
For now.
Can he go out on loan?
He could be loaned to the top divisions in Tuvalu or Kiribati which aren't governed by FIFA but otherwise he's now played for 2 clubs and can't go back out to a 3rd this season.
We have generally been bad at loaning players out for experience. For every Skipp at Norwich there's at least five Harry Kane's at Leicester.
