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Lane Loan Love - ranking every Blades loanee in history

Lane Loan Love - ranking every Blades loanee in history

A history of the loan system - how Sheffield United have used it and their success (or not)

Jul 08, 2022
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At the foot of this email is a labour of the author’s… love(?) - a 181-strong list of every Sheffield United player ever brought into the club on loan. It is, we believe, the only list of its kind and the author invites you all to say “how on earth have you forgotten him?”.

Words: David Beeden AKA DeadBat (with much-needed help from Silent Blade)

Loan (noun)

Definition of loan

‘something lent usually for the borrower's temporary use’

a: the grant of temporary use: ‘Can I have the loan of your right winger?’

b: the temporary duty of a person transferred to another job for a limited time: Morgan Gibbs White is on loan to Sheffield United until the end of the season.

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