Town boss Mick McCarthy says he can’t see why FIFA have decided to scrap the Football League’s emergency loan system from next season.

FIFA has long been against the emergency loan provision introduced by the Football League, which allows clubs to sign players on short-term loans of up to 93 days outside transfer windows, as it “affects the sporting integrity of the competitions”.

Having been given a number of reprieves, the system will be scrapped at the end of this season. Window to window and season-long loans will continue, however.

“They are stopping it. This week I’d be pretty annoyed if that were the case,” McCarthy said.

“I think it’s wrong on a few counts actually because I don’t think clubs below the Premier League can go out and sign players for seven, eight, nine million and given the 20, 30 or 40 grand a week. There’s some in our league, but not many of them.

“And below that it’s a real opportunity for clubs. We’re having the benefit, but I think it’s a real opportunity for clubs to get their players playing time, valuable playing time so they can improve and in the meantime we benefit from it, and other clubs benefit from it.

“There’s a lad who played for Peterborough last night who is on loan from West Ham [Martin Samuelsen] and he was ripping it up.

“We’ve had Ainsley here, who has done great. He’s not going to play in the Arsenal team, but he’s done really well here.

“I think it’s sad that they’re doing it and players filter down and they go and get good game time and become better players and they help the lower clubs, like we’ve been helped, a lower club from Arsenal.

“I don’t see the reason for shutting that window, but whether I see the reason or not, it’s going to happen.”

McCarthy believes it will reduce the chance for youngsters who are with big clubs to gain much-needed experience.

“In the main I think young players want to play in a team where they’re playing for points and it matters, there’s a crowd there, there’s more pressure,” he continued.

“And if they don’t get that it’s very hard to then stick them in your own team, for me to stick them in my own team, but certainly to stick them in Man United’s team or Arsenal’s team or Tottenham’s team. Sticking them in without any game time anywhere is pretty difficult.

“Harry Kane has been everywhere on loan and now he’s an England striker. I’m telling you, he wouldn’t be the England striker without having gone to Millwall, Leicester and wherever getting all those games.

“Without having those experiences going out they don’t get to be the players they are today and there’ll be loads of them that you could say that about.

“There have been so many of them that have been out on loan and have ended up being good players because of the experiences that they’ve got.”

He added: “Where are they going to play? They can’t play in the U21s if they’re over 21, you can play three overage players.

“So if you’ve got a squad of 24 or 25 and some need to have some football and somebody might benefit from it.

“If it was someone from here, somebody beneath us, Southend or Colchester or Cambridge or Peterborough, could loan one of our players, what’s wrong in doing that?

“I’ve seen the benefit this year, I loaned Luke Hyam out to Rotherham and he came back and has played in the team and has been different class.

“He wouldn’t have got that, he wouldn’t have got those games in the U21s, not a chance at the intensity that they play in our league. That was a benefit to me and I’m benefiting from being able to take loans.

“I keep seeing the benefit of it. It seems to get good, young players, who are never, ever going to play in the top teams’ first teams without some experience, the experience they need.

“And the big teams still won’t put them in, not first of all. They’ll go and buy somebody else.”

McCarthy says the change will mean he’ll have to adjust his approach when it comes to building his squad for next season.

“We’ll have to have a squad that can cope with injuries like we’ve got now,” the Blues boss said.

“But the other side of the coin somebody would say to me, ‘You wouldn’t go out and try and sign Ben Pringle, you’d use Adam McDonnell or somebody else that’s here, if Kundai Benyu was fit you might play him or you might play Alex Henshall if he was still here, you might put him in the team rather than going and getting a loan signing’.

“Well, yes I would, but we’re in that position in the top six, if we can keep pushing and we can get a better player than that then that’s what we want to do.”

He added: “But if we can’t we’ll change our policy, we’ll just have to get a squad that covers it, as simple as that.

“And if we run out of players then, then we’ll play them from below. We contingency plan all the time for it, but I don’t see it as necessary to stop that emergency loan window, I think it benefits a lot of people. I don’t know who it hurts, seems to be more benefit.”

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Daleyitfc added 10:33 - Feb 12 The scrapping of emergency loans should be just the first step in scrapping the stupid loan system entirely, before football turns into speedway. Each team, in whatever league, should have its own players and nothing else : of course, hand in hand with this should be the reintroduction of a proper reserve league i.e. Football Combination in this region - the single biggest reason why clubs struggle to give their fringe players game time.

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JimmyJazz added 10:35 - Feb 12 AMN is a season loan so would still be allowed. Otherwise there is the January transfer window, but our club like to ignore that
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vanmunt added 10:37 - Feb 12 I am all for the end of the farcical emergency loan system if it means more academy players are going to be given a fair crack of the whip on the bench. What is the point of the academy if they play for their respective youth International teams then get loaned out then released from the club because a 30+ year old journey man is picking up a pay packet.
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JustSpivvyChops added 10:43 - Feb 12 That's ITFC fooked from next season on then..............
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itsonlyme added 10:44 - Feb 12 Whether you like the loan system or not, it has been vital to a lot of clubs, including ours. The big issue here is it will mean that clubs will have to have bigger squads, so it will cost more in the long term.
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JimmyJazz added 11:00 - Feb 12 The key is in the name - an Emergency loan. That should really only cover goalkeepers.
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BlueKush added 11:29 - Feb 12 Bishop didn't need the experience...
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jas0999 added 12:25 - Feb 12 It should only be used in an absolute emergency and that's not a so called established championship club picking up just three new injuries since the closure of the transfer window. We only use it because it's cheap. Evans cashed in on Mings in the summer, saved hundreds of thousands in wages for twelve or so players moving on and although brought in some players, it didn't and hasn't touched the millions in fees received. Thus January we signed two below average cheapies. We got rid of four. We should have invested significantly enough in order to cover injuries or suspensions with quality players. I'm sick of hearing that Evans covers the running of the club. It doesn't help us on the field and that's the product which fans buy. Our current playing squad in my opinion lacks the quality to justify current prices. That's Evans fault.

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Cakeman added 12:33 - Feb 12 The reason it is being scrapped is because it has been abused. I fully agree with Daleyitfc' spot on comments. The club will now have to invest in signings be it permanent or longer term loans instead of relying on the farcical emergency loans. Mr Evans might cough and splutter a bit at that I guess!
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PhilTWTD added 14:02 - Feb 12 Not sure it has been abused. It was set up as a workaround by the Football League and has always been 'emergency' in name only.
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blues1 added 14:38 - Feb 12 Have to say Phil, I think it has been abused. I remember Norwich getting Alan Lee on loan when they already had 4 strikers. Hardly an emergency. And it did start as for emergencies such a keepers. But I don't see a massive issue with this. It just means clubs will need to sign any loan players during the windows. This also will do away with the daft 93 day rule, as that only applied to these emergency loans neway.

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dirtydingusmagee added 15:25 - Feb 12 no Cakeman,it probably means Mr Evans will sit back and watch us play in League 1. The club .like many/most others has debts ,under present set up ITFC is just treading water at best.Unless we get a new owner with cash to splash this is about as good as it will get,it could get worse though .
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PhilTWTD added 16:45 - Feb 12 blues1 It was always emergency in name alone, the Football League brought it in to get around the transfer window when he came in. FIFA have been trying to get them to get rid of it for years, they never liked it because it was a loophole. In that sense it was an abuse in itself, but it's been used the way the FL intended.
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BrettenhamBlue added 21:26 - Feb 12 It will force us to think more long term which is a great thing. We will also not be in a position to mutually terminate contracts anymore ( Henshall. Alabi, Oar, Connolly and Parr). Instead we will have to reason with these players and try to convince them that staying at ITFC is a good thing. It also gives young players a chance (McDonnell must wonder what he has to do right now to get into the first team). If teams suffer in the first few months, they can easily benefit from the January Transfer Window. Let's imagine for a second that we are McDonnell. Oar, Parr, Connolly, Henshall (all which can play left side) leave the club. Fraser gets injured. I've played well so I should be given my chance now, right? No...instead we bring someone in on loan. These players are desperate for game time. They should be given their chance. Benyu, Dozzell, McDonnell could all have had first team appearances at some point. And it honestly doesn't benefit us that much. The rich clubs can pay a higher percentile of wages, therefore can bring in loan players that have international standard pedigree. There is always a good argument as to why it is an emergency.

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