It’s easy to think that a player will improve by just being sent anywhere on loan, but there is so much more that goes into the decision to loan out a top talent.
The ultimate aim for the parent club is to let their players develop and improve, but certain conditions will benefit different players.
Takefuso Kubo has impressed on loan from Real Madrid and Mallorca this season, and it’s clear that Real see him as a potential first team player in the future.
La Liga have a rule where teams can only register three non EU players in their senior squad each season, which means Kubo will probably need to send him out on loan next season.
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A recent report from HITC was looking at Barcelona’s regret on losing him to Real Madrid as a youth player, but they also quoted a recent report from AS about his future.
They claimed that PSG would have no chance of signing him on a permanent deal, while Celtic were said to be one of 29 teams to show an interest in taking him on loan. It’s also worth noting in a more recent report that 90min.com claimed other teams are now trying to make a move to convince Real Madrid already.
That sounds daunting and you might think Neil Lennon would have no chance of convincing Real Madrid to let him come to Celtic, but it would actually make a lot of sense.
Real need him to develop into a player who is capable of playing in their first team, and that means finding a loan move where he’ll experience a lot of the same pressures.
At Celtic he would play in a team who would be expected to win every game, he would play for a team who see a lot of the ball and need to break down teams who sit back, and he will play for a team that everybody wants to beat.
All of that would be true at Real Madrid as well, while playing for Celtic would also give him exposure to European football and he would learn what it’s like to play an important role for a club that expects to win trophies.
It’s likely that he could join a team who play in a bigger league, but playing in a side that play in a different way and have lesser aims might not help him break into the Real Madrid team.
It’s likely nothing will happen until the La Liga season is officially finished, but it’s worth keeping an eye on where he ends up next season.
