Loan Watch 2023/2024

[Sedgley Wolf]

With most of our existing loans coming to an end yesterday, what better time to start the new Loan Watch thread?

I'll try to update as much as possible, work permitting. Individual updates and videos welcome too, of course.

Following @YoungWolf's lead last season, here's the player loan table.

Name	Club loaned to	League	Until
Sasa Kalajdzic	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bundesliga *Out for the season*	June 2024
Luke Cundle	Stoke City	The Championship	June 2024
Ki-Jana Hoever	Stoke City	The Championship	June 2024
Joe Hodge	QPR	The Championship	June 2024
Louie Moulden	Northampton Town	League One	June 2024
Chem Campbell	Wycombe Wanderers	League One	June 2024
Nigel Lonwijk	Wycombe Wanderers	League One	June 2024
Chiquinho	Famalicao	Portuguese Primeira Liga	June 2024
Daniel Podence	Olympiacos	Greek Premier League	June 2024
Bendeguz Bolla	FC Servette	Swiss Super League	June 2024
Yerson Mosquera	Villarreal	La Liga	June 2024
Goncalo Guedes	Villarreal	La Liga	June 2024
Fabio Silva	Rangers	SPL	June 2024
Dexter Lemibikisa	Hearts	SPL	June 2024
Justin Hubner	Cerezo Osaka	Japanese J1 League	June 2024
Owen Hesketh	Kidderminster Harriers	National League	June 2024
Harry Birtwistle	Oxford City	National League	June 2024
Owen Farmer	Rushall Olympic	National League North	June 2024
Joe Young	Buxton	National League North	June 2024
Ethan McLeod	Alvechurch FC	Southern League Premier Division (7th tier)	June 2024

 

[YoungWolf]

Nice one.

Did I complete the last one, I’ll update if not. It will bother me otherwise haha

 

[Alan]

Will just generically shout out how outstanding Mosquera has been for FCC. Absolutely working out for both sides, that one.

 

[YoungWolf]

I do wonder what would be his situation had he not got injured in his first pre season and the cup game (cheers Bruno).

We basically signed him under the profile we’d been looking at Kossounou and Tapsoba, but been too slow with those two.

 

[AndyWolves]

Is guedes at benfica? Or is it not official yet

 

[YoungWolf]

Is guedes at benfica? Or is it not official yet

Not official yet but seems to be consensus that he will go on loan again for a season

 

[Deano]

Not sure how Mosquera's loan is working out for Wolves as no matter how well he plays in MLS, how does it tell us anything about how he could potentially adapt and play games in England? The levels of competition are world's apart.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Thing is he's hardly played any senior football. He hadn't racked up that many games in Colombia before we signed him. So just getting used to playing regularly is handy.

 

[Alan]

Not sure how Mosquera's loan is working out for Wolves as no matter how well he plays in MLS, how does it tell us anything about how he could potentially adapt and play games in England? The levels of competition are world's apart.

Sure as shit better than him sitting on the bench in the Championship.

The Prem is a massive leap from any level we would/could have loaned Yerson to. Equally, MLS is a pretty big leap from the Colombian top flight, where Mosq last got senior minutes IIRC.

 

[Alan]

Yerson starting in the center tonight for FCC. Has always been on the left of the 3 CBs before now IIRC.

They’ve just conceded but very harsh to hold him at fault for it, IMO.

 

[Sedgley Wolf]

Seemed to be a little lost positionally for the first, but agree it's harsh to blame him.

He played the full game in the end, finished 2-2

 

[Alan]

Notable tidbits re: Mosquera;

Imperious second half from him. Put in a lot more tough defensive positions and I don’t think got a any of them wrong; outright killed most of the NE attacks that came centrally.

Taylor Twellman had two interesting comments about Mosq; that he is at least in the top 3 for best offseason signings in MLS, and that his market value for Wolves has increased by roughly 30% due to his performances in Cincy.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

When did Sky lose the MLS rights ?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

For this season. It's on Apple TV and you have to pay an extra sub on top for MLS. Er, no thank you.

 

[Alan]

If you live out of market and have a club already it’s an incredibly positive change from how things used to be broadcast. But if you’re overseas and weren’t already invested it’s just one more hurdle, and one made out of real money to boot.

 

[big mean bunny]

The UK coverage of non domestic leagues has utterly fragmented. I used to watch Italia, German, Portuguese and French football all on BT Sport, and now they are all covered by separate broadcasters I believe.

Similarly with sky you used to get the Prem, Scottish prem, la Liga and the MLS as minimum and now they are all spilt out or looking to go that way.

Even the NFL Gamepass Europe has been punted off onto some service caused DAZN, which already has the NFL stuff separated from the rest of their content so the worry for many is that from next season you will need a double sub to access it.

 

[Alan]

Everything is a service now dontchaknow

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

May change next season (I do hear TNT are going to strip a lot back from the BT days) but last season Italian and French was on BT. Some Portuguese on ViaPlay Xtra for free. German on Sky more or less as an afterthought. Scottish mostly on Sky I think. Dutch has disappeared. Spanish had or has its own channel, some on ViaPlay's subscription channels, a handful on Viaplay Xtra and ITV4.

 

[Tredman]

Nigel Lonwijk and Theo Corbeanu have gone to grasshoppers for the season

 

[YoungWolf]

Nigel Lonwijk and Theo Corbeanu have gone to grasshoppers for the season

Bit disappointed for Lonwijk in that move, though he’d get a championship loan