29 October 2020 at 12:40 by Arthur Herniou
There are 90 players on loan from Ligue 1 clubs this 2020-21 season.
Following the global economic context, which did not spare the football world, the 2020 summer transfer window was particular for the French teams, which tended to resort to loans, rather than transfers. However, some Ligue 1 clubs have loaned more players than others. In all, 90 of them have left their team, within the championship, to be sold to others, over a given period, according to the platform. Transfermarkt.
PSG and OM have loaned few players this season
With, respectively, three and four players on loan, Olympique de Marseille and PSG are among the clubs with the fewest in Ligue 1. However, their total market value, again according to Transfermarkt, is one of the highest in the championship. With a total of 16.05 M € for Paris, made up in part of the rating of Alphonse Aréola (13 M €), and 12.45 M € for OM, justified by that of Maxime Lopez (12 M € ). The players loaned by the two rival clubs are also among the youngest: an average age of 21.3 for the club of the capital, against 21.5 for that of the South, while the overall one is over 22 years old. .
Monaco champion of loans, ahead of LOSC
In this little game of who will lend the most, AS Monaco crushes the competition. A total of 14 players will spend their season at a club other than the Rock, including Keita Baldé, at Sampdoria and Benjamin Henrichs, at RB Leipzig. This is 5 more than any other Ligue 1 club, and consequently than its runner-up, the LOSC, at 9. All this information sent elsewhere may not return to Ligue 1. According to the Observatory of Football, only nearly 30% of players loaned to clubs from the 5 major leagues, between 2009/10 and 2018/19, returned to their home team at the end of their loans, often used as scheduled departures.
The ranking of Ligue 1 clubs that loan the most players this season
20. Brest = 1
19. Strasbourg = 2
18. Nimes = 2
17. Bordeaux = 2
16. Montpellier = 3
15. Dijon = 3
14. Lorient = 3
13. Marseille = 3
12. Reims = 4
11. Saint-Etienne = 4
10. PSG = 4
9. Angers = 4
8. Metz = 5
7. Lens = 5
6. Nantes = 5
5. Lyon = 6
4. Rennes = 7
3. Nice = 8
2. LOSC = 9
1. Monaco = 14