Similarly biased but he's being messed about here. People close to the academy have indicated the staff view his future as a full-back but they've then largely refused to play him as a full-back. It has been clear his development is low on the totem pole of their concerns. He's been pushed all over the place playing on the left to accommodate a poor player like Tanner and then forced centrally to accommodate the lack of any good CBs. Laird and Williams are clearly the two favoured and prioritised. He's wasting his time here at this point and is better off elsewhere. He's one of Ireland's biggest talents and we can't afford to waste him.
Highly debatable if that is Celtic though. SPL is low level and doesn't suit his style. They've also just signed Afolabi and Luca Connell and yet to even include them in a matchday squad. So if it'll just be more of that then there is very little point of going there. I don't know enough about Neil Lennon to know his ideology of integrating youth players, you might shed more light on that.
We have 11 out with 2 being senior players.
Our squad is thin so we've just been promoting players instead of loans. Rashford, Mason, Angel, Chong, McTominay, Garner, and Axel are all in around the first team instead of loans. Only Axel has spent time out due to the depth of CBs. TFM is also back due to injury. So that cuts down on some who would/could have gone out. Chong turned down a loan move this season.
Additionally we've released a whole load of players at 19-20. We kept Matty Willock for no reason on our books until he was almost 23 despite never being anywhere near good enough. We could have kept the likes of Bohui, DJ, Dearnley etc. for another year or two and loaned them but we've decided to just release them instead. Nishan Burkhart also went on a permanent instead of taking a loan.
We also just don't sent that many players on loans. So promotion of the best and release of the worst instead of loans would account for any decline.
