This is really doing my head in now....Where is our buys?

[Northstander]

Adams weighs in for Tyson


Wycombe boss Tony Adams has bolstered his squad by snapping up Reading striker Nathan Tyson.
Adams has been actively looking to strengthen his options at The Causeway Stadium and he has agreed a one-month loan move for Tyson.

Tyson has found himself out-of-favour at Reading this season and was placed on the transfer list in November.

Plymouth and Rotherham have been linked with Tyson in the past and he is keen to move away from Reading for regular first team football.

Adams will be hoping that the England Under-20 international can help fire his side to safety in the second half of the season.

The Chairboys boss is set to add to his signings by bringing in Millwall defender Stuart Nethercott on loan for a month.

Nethercott has slipped down the pecking order at Millwall and the club are willing to let him leave.

 

[Trigger]

We haven't got a pot to piss in, we will not strengthen our team, this is it until Falmer.

 

[byf]

Next albion signing in 2008-2009 season then!

 

[Bozza]

Why do people think we will be making signings NOW specifically?

The January transfer window only affects Premiership clubs, not us lowly sorts.

 

[bhafc99]

Err, though my knowledge of league rules is almost Rio Ferdinandesque in its vagueness, I believe clubs are only allowed so many loans at one time/over the course of a season. We're doing the best we can within those rules.

Am now happy to be corrected by loads of people who go to bed at night with the FA rulebook under their pillow...

 

[Bozza]

Loan rules...

The rules governing loans (or "temporary transfers" as the FA officially likes to call them) are long and detailed. They need to be in order to avoid clubs exploiting the system, but this does make them difficult to remember. This page sets out the regulations that apply during the 2003/04 season.

Theory
There are two types of loan - "short-term" and "long-term"...

A short-term loan is for a period between 28 and 93 days, including the start date and the finishing date. (All loans are for a specific number of days, and technically there is no such thing as "a month's loan".) The player cannot be recalled by his original club during the first 28 days (although it's possible that such a recall is allowed for goalkeepers in an extreme case), but can be afterwards regardless of the original period of the loan. A club can have up to eight players on short-term loan during the season, but no more than four at any one time.

Short-term loans which subsequently become permanent transfers do not count to the limit of eight such loans during a season.

A club is allowed to sign the same player on short-term loan more than once during a season. However, the total number of days on loan cannot exceed 93. Furthermore, a club can extend the length of a short-term loan as long as the total length is not more than 93 days.

A long-term loan can only apply to a player aged under 23 on the 30th June before the start of the season (so for 2003/04, a player on long-term loan has to have been born on or after 1st July, 1980). The loan must commence betwen 1st July and 31st December, and must run to the end of the season. A player on a long-term loan cannot be recalled by his original club unless he is permanently transferred to another club. A club can have up to four players on long-term loan during the season.

No club can send out more than six players on long-term loans during a season.

A club can take a maximum of four loan players (short-term and long-term combined) from any one club during a season.

A club is able to name a maximum of five loan players (short-term and long-term combined) in the 16 players listed on the team sheet for a game.

Under extreme circumstances, a club is allowed to take a goalkeeper on loan even if it infringes some of the regulations listed here.

The club receving the loaned player must play at least half of his wages during the period.

Any short-term loan to or from another country must last for 93 days. Note that Welsh clubs playing in the Football League or other parts of the English pyramid do not count as being in another country, but other Welsh clubs, and those in Scotland or Northern Ireland, do count as being in another country.

Practice
The most common type of loan is one that lasts for 30 days, expiring on a Saturday. This allows a club to sign a player on the Friday so that he can take part in training on that day, and then to play him in five Saturday games plus any midweek games during the period.

The next most common type is a loan that lasts for 93 days, again expiring on a Saturday. Any such period will also begin on a Friday, so that the player is available for 14 Saturdays.

The two common types above explain why so many loans expire at midnight on a Saturday.

Something that appeared in 2002/03 was the loan that expired on midnight on 1st January. This was obviously so that the original club had the player available to sell during the January transfer window, but also allowed that player to play in the game on 1st January given that probably not too many transfer negotiations are concluded on dates with full League programmes.

The long-term loan was only introduced a few years ago, and is intended principally for Premiership clubs to develop their young players in serious League action. This is why there is an age limit on such loans. The rule about no recall is designed to give the receiving club some stability in their own team. This type of transfer can be risky, for obvious reasons, but so far it seems that these loans have usually been successful. Insignificant clubs with no decent players, such as Bournemouth, have discovered that their entire season can be turned around by the presence of one major talent.