It's the level they're being loaned to. If Buonanotte was off to League 1 and Barco to the Belgian 2nd. division you'd have a point, but they're not.
[Albion] Valentín Barco **Season Loan To Sevilla 23/08/24**
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Strikes me that there is method in throwing these youngsters in early, sink or swim to a degree, but in the process add exposure and value to your investment.
Rather than buying youth and automatically loaning them, we do appear to be giving them a chance, then loan. Perhaps this gets them a better loan, maybe us a better loan terms, and in the process adding a final value if they don’t work out for us.
I’ve rather felt our investment this summer is less about the money from previous sales and more about the potential value we have in the squad.
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I’ll go with that. I just think he’ll learn more by being here than being in Sevilla.
If he’s here and Pervis is fit he won’t play. How’s that learning more?
If he’s here, and Pervis is shit, he would have played.
Only if Ferdi (the best left back at Euro ‘24) is on Right Back duty or injured.
Then there is Boscagli. This supreme left footed ball playing centre back has played at left back over 60 times. If we sign him, I’m sure there’ll be games where tactically, a left footed Veltman is a better option for Hürzeler than the sort of attacking threat an Estupiñán or Kadıoğlu gives you. Everton springs to mind with the constant diagonal ball Hinshelwood struggled with.
Finally, Lamptey was many people’s MotM against Marseilles away at Left Back. But I do sadly believe he’ll be leaving the club this week.
Lampty has been wonderful, but with his track record for injuries I fear we can’t carry him.
Boscagli is an ‘if’, whereas I believe Barco would have created real competition for that place. Ah well, it’s done now.
If he’s not playing regularly at Sevilla then agree, the loan becomes pointless.
I don’t disagree. I think the loan is not really in the short term interests of the club but the long term benefit (happier and better Barco having had a lot more minutes because he’ll be 1st choice at the multi-Europa champions) probably outweighs that.
And the decision making at the club is nearly always based on long term benefit as RDZ found out to his disappointment.
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Pro tip: if using your phone, add the properly-accented name to your personal dictionary and then it'll be suggested each time you start to type it. Then you can Kadıoğlu correctly with no effort.
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Bit random, my son was just getting his hair cut in Brighton and his barber had just before him cut Barco’s! Seville taking their time 
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He's in the 23-man squad for their La Liga match tomorrow:-Bit random, my son was just getting his hair cut in Brighton and his barber had just before him cut Barco’s! Seville taking their time
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Love that you've got Connolly with the right number of Ls and Ns. O'Riley needed?
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To be fair it’s a pisstake / homage to the most incorrectly spelt ex squad member we have ever had
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Not in the squad for Sevilla's visit to Mallorca tonight.
