Point one - you simply cannot guarantee that and even if the play is better, it may not be as successful in terms of results.Jack Celliers wrote: ↑07 Apr 2026 21:34 Change the manager and we get:
Better football. The second half of Stevenage away is the worst I have seen any team play football.
Better signings. No more of Leam's friends who are past it.
Decent loanees. Would you let any of your young players come and complete their education in the current Reading set-up?
Youth players.
I'm not sure he deserves the sack, but I would jump for joy if another club came in for him.
Point two -
Roberts, Nyambe & Ward have all been decent to excellent signings under LR
Young seems pointless and I think was a rushed deal to get a body in
Keane has been a waste of a loan but made sense at the time - I think we all saw the logic in it, it just hasn't worked out
Rinomhota has clearly had some issues off the pitch which appear to have happened after he signed meaning he may as well not have been there.
Of those, only Keane really fits your criteria but as said, I think most people thought that made sense as a short term loan.
Point three
Again, impossible to say - loans aren't always young players but can be a way to bring in an older player that the parent club don't want but we can use - I would rather us use the loan market to bring in experience that we may end up signing and utilise our Academy for younger players rather than helping develop a Brighton player that they can sell on to someone else later.
