On Arsenal.com, the reserve team manager Neil Banfield says:
"We are looking for them to have benefited from playing at the sharp end, playing for points when it really does matter - we want to see how they have handled that.
"Also the preparation, because they are playing Saturday-Wednesday-Saturday-Wednesday, how they get over one game and get ready for the next one. It's the mental side of the game. When you're on loan you're playing for points and that really matters.
"They grow up, without a doubt. Maturity is something else we look for because they have seen what it's like [elsewhere], they have experienced different levels of the game. They see how hard it is away from Arsenal because they are well looked after here. They go out on loan and they realise there is another side to it."
It is a shame we cannot suggest new loan deals for Clichy, Sagna, Fabianski, Almunia, Diaby, Denilson, Walcott, Vela, Rosicky, Eboue and Wenger. Maybe they would come back a little more worldly and wise - able to mould new ideas into their game, and learn to fight for points.
Just a thought.
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