7 Worst Loan Signings of All Time

From Liverpool loanee Arthur Melo, who has played just 13 minutes of football this season, to Chelsea paying £16 million to get four goals and no assists out of Joao Felix over four months, HITC Sevens takes a look at some of the worst loan signings in the history of football.

My HITC Sevens socials:

Twitter - @HITCSevens
Instagram - @HITCSevens

Other HITC football / soccer / Premier League socials (not run by me):

[nathanb]

I have played the same amount of Premier League football at Anfield as Arthur Melo

[pascallovic]

Lucas Ocampos at Ajax also a terrible loan deal. 114 minutes played in six games. 5 million in fees, 4 million in salary and zero goals and assists in 4 months. He was sent back in de winterbreak and now plays a Europa League final with Sevilla.

[Jack-shuv]

Honestly have to say that this is one of my favourite channels. It is so refreshing to hear someone discuss football without tit being laced with bias/abuse in one direction or another.

[Alfie_]

A run down on how bizarre Slimani is. In the last two seasons, he has played for four clubs, Lyon, Sporting, Brest and Anderlecht. In 2021/22, he scored 1 goal in 12 games for Lyon in Ligue 1, before moving to Sporting, where he scored 4 in 9 in the league. After that, he moved to Brest for the start of the 2022/23 season, scored 1 goal in 16 games in Ligue 1, before moving in January to Anderlecht, where he has scored 8 goals in 10 Belgian Pro League games...

[jayme]

In fairness to Jese, you need to mention that he had ACL reconstruction surgery in 2013 from which he never really recovered. PSG were suckered into a move for him as his contract was running down and they pretty much just loaned him out every season to see if he was ever going to recover. It seems to me the player himself could see he was never going to deliver on his promise and lost interest in the game.

[brovegas]

The fact that Danny Drinkwater heatbutted a teammate in training and never played after that should have made him bad enough to include him

[KingYahshua]

Can’t believe Renato Sanches is only 25 years old. I feel like this guy has been around for decades.

[MC-xvtn]

Falcao’s decline was tragic for us Colombians, but as soon as he went back to Monaco in 16-17, he rose from the ashes. Insane comeback. Shows how the prem is just a pure hit or miss, even for the most brilliant of strikers. Back in 2012-2013, he was honestly the best #9 in the world, the awards speak for themselves.

[seandelap]

Yet another list that Chelsea could feature prominently in

[chaelpsonnen]

Falcao only played 3 games in his second season at Monaco because that was the same season he was loaned out to Man Utd, he was available for all of monacos games before he left

[ollieduracell]

Poor old Freddy Adu gets the brunt of everything 😂

[lucaslonchampt]

Day 10: 7 Best Loan moves ever.

The loan moves that have greatly benefited the team receiving the player for a limited amount of time. While not exactly the best, I always think of Morientes to Monaco as an example.

Now come on Alfie, you're just teasing me at this point

[achimsturzu]

I know you have talked about Romanian football in the past, but could you dwelve a bit in the history of Dinamo Bucharest? The club with the second most titles in the Romanian football, bought by spanish investors who have literally scammed everyone and brought in players with big wages just to not pay them like Alex Garcia who has played for Manchester City. The club was relegated last season, and everyone thought that it was going to die, but somehow we are in the promotion play-off this season.

I could help you with some stuff, if you are interested in doing a documentary about it :).

[stenic]

I saw Falcao play for Man Utd at Deepdale in an FA Cup tie in 2015, it was almost sad seeing a player who was in such decline he made Kevin Davies (playing for Preston at the time) look like a world class striker.

[kipzonderkop]

Felix may have only scored 3 goals, but considering how little everyone else has scored, it’s sort of worth it. What a joke.

[xurstadia]

Brilliant research yet again. How did Ramsey and Felix get such lucrative deals? Genuinely blows my mind, but not more than Falcao, now he was a joke. Trust my team to be #1 ha.🤯😂

Great video, keep it up

[coffeyallday]

Things Kim Kallstrom did at Arsenal:
Scored a penalty in the semifinal shootout to help send Arsenal to the FA Cup Final
Made a cool pass in a mid-week game

For that, we thank him for his service

[seandelap]

Stoke City were in the EPL from the 2008/2009-2017-2018 seasons which is in fact 10 seasons not 9

[deanmarais]

As a United fan, watching Falcao was so frustrating. You could see he really was trying his best but he was accomplishing nothing and it was getting to him. It felt like he was always falling on the floor for some reason. With so many struggling strikers its usually only their inability to finish that limits them but with Falcao it felt like he couldn't do anything right.

[albertmillerelectricbooga]

Streets won't forget Sturridge selling out Perth Glory's stadium in the first of his 4ish home games