It is a mark of how Manchester City's approach to their squads and academy that they will barely need to spend any time thinking about incoming loan restrictions.
FIFA announced changes to the game on Thursday aimed at developing young players and preventing hoarding from the beginning of the 2022/23 campaign. These include maximums of: one year for any single loan, three players to any single club, and eight players loaned out and eight loaned in at any given time, scaling down to six at most by the 2024/25 season. Players that are 21 or younger will not count towards those limits, nor will club-trained players.
Not so long ago, that could have spelled trouble for the Blues.
