Denver Royal72 busDenver Royal Re. 1st paragraph, I'd like to think we could sign one of them permanently by getting rid of the dead wood.
Signing a second one permanently may be dependent on us selling Swift and/or Moore.
And yes, getting another 1 or 2 re-signed on a loan again would be great.
Re. 2nd paragraph, that scouting network presumably were instrumental in finding those 5, and so it seems reasonable to think they could find some 'other' players too. Even if we don't bring back any of the 5 and have to move on, it suggests we're in good hands and that a blueprint is in place with regard to identifying players that fit our specific needs.
The Loan players were nothing to do with the scouting network, they were basically sourced by Kia Joorabchian's
agency
What, so we never even looked at them then? Given the success of those 5, is it possible we can/should go down a similar route this Summer, and not actually need a scouting network? In the case of Oliveira, we had reportedly been wanting him for a couple of years, so he didn't need much scouting anyway.
We knew about them, Maizaga we wanted before he went to chelsea, Baker we had been keeping tabs on for a while and he is a friend of Swifts from Chelsea and England, Martinez we will have known about through his goalkeeping coach at Arsenal Sal Bibbo, the only one possible not known well to us would have been the liverpool lad.
Joorabchian's agency brokered the deals, hence Mikael Sylvestere's presence at the ground.
There will be a cost to all this somewhere down the line though, no doubt about that.