New Loan rules

[albie]

Not sure if anybody has already posted these, but just so we all know for next season, here they are (from the Yeovil site, Ciderspace);

"All loan deals from now on will have to be conducted during the Summer (July/August) and Winter (January) transfer windows. All loan durations will have to be set at either a half-season or full-season deal. Once the window is shut, that player will not be able to return and play for that parent club's first team, and will not be allowed to be loaned out to a second club until the window reopens.

This left open a couple of issues that have been agreed at the Football League's 2016 AGM in Portugal today, and are as follows:

1. A player registered on a standard loan may continue to play non-first team football for his parent club during the term of his loan period. This allows that player to go back and play Under-21 or Reserve Team football for his parent club, particularly in the situation where the player is no longer getting first team football with the loaning club. However, much like the youth loan variant worked, it also allows clubs to view how their player is developing during a quiet midweek period.

2. Clubs will be permitted to sign a goalkeeper on a seven day 'emergency loan' basis if they do not have a fit and available senior goalkeeper on their books that has made five starting appearances in first team football. In the past this rule has been strictly enforced and the League have generally asked clubs to provide evidence from an independent doctor that their existing player(s) are not fit to play.

3. Clubs will be able to recall a goalkeeper at 24 hours notice from a loan period at another club if they are unable to field two fit goalkeepers in their 18 man matchday squad. This is therefore something for a loaning club to be aware of, in that they may still lose their goalkeeper, and of course could result in a chain reaction if that club then loses their only available goalkeeper."