The best player each Premier League club has had on loan. Simple as that...
Date published: Wednesday 11th January 2023 10:03 -The best player each Premier League club has had on loan. Simple as that. Only rule: only loans while they were in the Premier League count, which proved far more restrictive than we had naively originally thought and that we now bitterly regret. On we go, then.Arsenal do not have a great history with loans.
His actual loan spell, in the second half of the 2020/21 season, was decent rather than spectacular, but what’s happened since would make it a clear winner even if the rest of Arsenal’s loan signings weren’t awful shit. Odegaard joined permanently in the summer of 2021 and is now thedoing much of the heavy lifting to propel Arsenal ever onward in their unlikely title tilt.
It’s also really quite lovely to see Odegaard turn out to be genuinely properly good, because for the longest time he appeared to be walking the hackneyed path of “child prodigy scooped up at irresponsibly young age by Superclub, struggles to adapt, washed up at 22.” We thought he was going to be another Freddy Adu, basically, a player we remain convinced was entirely invented by nefarious Big Media just so they could do “Much Adu About Nothing” headlines.
But none of that was in the Premier League so none of it counts, and their post-promotion efforts have not been as good. Ross Barkley? Ross fucking Barkley? And the initial excitement about Philippe Coutinho wore off fast, didn’t it? Long before they totally spoiled it by making it a permanent move. So it’s all the way back to 2005 we go. It was as part of a clause in Nolberto Solano’s return to Newcastle that Aston Villa received his ready-made replacement.
By summer 2006 the future European champion was the subject of a tug of war. Villa, now managed by Martin O’Neill and still desperate to keep Milner, agreed a £4m move, only for Glenn Roeder’s Newcastle to renege on negotiations. He stayed – but only until 2008 when he was finally unveiled as a £12m Villa signing. And he’s still going.
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