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There’s More To Wolves’ Deal With Spanish Side Jumilla Than Some Think

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Loans out to League One and Two aren’t just about game time. Youngsters at Premier League and Championship clubs are arguably coddled with the facilities and the wages, so a spell away where they have to fend for themselves is often quoted as a benefit by clubs. A player can have a good career and get a good financial return in football by only training and never playing. A taste of having to succeed for themselves, their family and their employers is not a bad thing.

So, the level of Jumilla doesn’t wash when you consider other factors.

The obvious benefit for the club I would say speaks for itself. Help Jumilla compete, help them grow and not only will we have a second Academy in effect, they can potentially become the go-to club for talented youngsters knowing there is a pathway through. We also, via our importance in the relationship probably have more of a say on game time should we wish to, and helping to shape the club and ethos in a mutually beneficial way whereby anyone arriving with us in the future, has already been brought up in a way they would’ve been had they been with us already. Easier integration is the plus.

Going back to a players benefit.

If we want a youngster to mature and get a taste of life outside of the Wolves blanket, Jumilla brings added benefits. A self-proclaimed small club in a quiet area means they avoid the distractions the game can bring, and focus purely on building habits beneficial to their careers – habits that should follow through when we get back to the more British pub scene and nightclubs.

They also experience a different type of football, and again the level is unimportant, the League Two test may be considered more difficult but given the B-team nature of Academies in the Spanish game, players will cross paths with La Liga’s elite sides reasonably regularly and facing that elite crop at points will certainly be an experience.

Get that experience under their belts, then look to make a mark at League One or Two level having had 12 months of something completely different is not going to do anyone any harm.

I can only see it as being of benefit to the players themselves, as well as the club both in the now as well as in the future.

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