Hard Quote by Kemar Roofe

I got my first taste of real professional football on loan at Northampton. I was 18 at the time, and I played only nine…

— Kyle Walker

I think the moment it all changed was when I went to Peterborough. I remember finding out that I was going there on loan,…

— Dwight Gayle

I kept going out on loan because I wasn't getting much time at Reading. Then I went to Sheffield Wednesday and then Nottingham Forest…

— Michail Antonio

Quite a few teams wanted me when I put it out there I wanted to go on loan. I thought Swansea was the best…

— Rhian Brewster

I arrived at Arsenal in 2010, and had five spells out on loan - plus another one with Oxford where I played just once.

— Emiliano Martinez

My first loan spell I was 18. I went to Crewe, and I felt I'd scored all these goals for Liverpool's youth teams and…

— Harry Wilson

I was out on loan at Barnsley when United accepted an offer for me from Leicester and that was it really. I just had…

— Danny Drinkwater

I really want to go to a club that really wants me. Southampton gave me that opportunity, and it paid off, I think.

— Toby Alderweireld

I signed for Reading and then West Ham where people called me 'The Invisible Man' or a 'poster' because I was on the bench…

— Michail Antonio

I wanted to get experience of playing a season on loan at a club, to play week in, week out.

— Andreas Pereira

We didn't know how it was going to go but it was always going to be hard for me to go straight from Melbourne…

— Aaron Mooy

I spent a lot of time at Weston Super Mare and it played a big part of my development to play men's football on…

— Ollie Watkins