There has been some news today that Aston Villa want both Isaac Hayden and Ciaran Clark on loan in the Championship for the season.
But Rafa has confirmed that nobody in the first team squad will be loaned out this season.
There are some players – Henri Saivet, Rolando Aarons and Achraf Lazaar – who will be moving out and they have not been allocated a squad number.
Some youngsters will also be heading out on loan and maybe for the season – like England U21 goalkeeper Freddie Woodman as an example.
Rafa Benitez in training this week – listen up
Rafa started off his conference with a little bit of class by congratulating Neil Warnock on the great job he did last season in getting the Bluebirds promoted.
That was his first full season in charge in South Wales.
That’s a fantastic achievement by Warnock and the 8th promotion in his long career in football management.
Here’s some of what Rafa said in his PR today:
“I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate Cardiff, Neil Warnock and their fans on their promotion before you ask questions.”
“I did not get the chance before.”
“He (Yedlin) has been training but it is too soon for him this weekend. He will stay up here and work hard. Next week he should be better.”
“Nothing (on loans out of the club). Anyone who is in our squad, they will not go, as we don’t have too many players.”
“Some young players need loans, but we don’t have the numbers to allow others to go.”
“Some players can go abroad or to the Championship on loan.” “We have two or three who don’t play enough who could go out on loan.”
“We did really well last weekend, we are happy with the performance, but disappointed with the result.”
“The players have trained really well, they do every week, and the reaction is they have worked to get better.”
“The new signings have settled in well. Some of them who don’t know the PL like Schar and Muto might need a bit of time.”
“Rondon, Ki and Fernandez already know it well. The squad for me is stronger than before, we brought some players in.”
“But is the (starting) eleven better? “
“We will see.”
There’s been some discussion about those last sentences from Rafa.
Yes – the squad is better, and we have more depth in some positions, but is the starting eleven better than it was last season?
It is if we compare the team to a year ago because we now have Kenedy and Dubravka starting and they made a huge difference to the team in January.
Unfortunately, Kenedy is still on loan, but we got a bargain buy for Dubravka and paid only £4M for him.
But Rafa’s right about how good the starting eleven is – we will find out soon.
Comments welcome.
3 comments so far
RobLeenio
Aug 17, 2018 at 2:52 PM
Comment #1“Anyone who is in our squad, they will not go” – including Woodman?
That would leave us with 4 keepers, which seems excessive….
AncientC
Aug 17, 2018 at 3:05 PM
Comment #2carl, from earlier. Do you mean the same Muslim Brotherhood that is charitable group, was democratically elected into power in Egypt, supported by Obama, and then forced out in a coup. It is good you show an interest in these things, you will get there eventually. Better than turning Libya—which previously has the highest literacy rates in north Africa—into a open slave market and arming Saudis, isn’t it. Just leave it be. You wouldn’t have a leg to stand on if it came to a debate. And I am sure the blog wouldn’t welcome it. You have been rabbiting on about momentum for months.
I would be happy to talk about it; you are setting my argument up for a win, but I don’t think the blog would appreciate it. Take the hint.
Madmag
Aug 18, 2018 at 8:26 AM
Comment #3@Ancientc That was probably the biggest piece of pure B/S I’ll read today
You need to research Muslim Brotherhood multi national agenda a bit better. They are anything but democratic
As for your straw man of Libya, do you have any idea at all what life was like under the Gaddaffi regime.
You seem to be just a typical non thinking leftie and as for the hypocrisy of telling another not to talk about politics on the blog, well my flabber is gasted