Luton – You Believe A Loan Spell Is The Best Option For This Player

Earlier this week, I opted to launch a new series designed to provide a perspective on who the Hatters support believe should be kept, loaned, or sold.

My first choice in the series was – Carlos Mendes Gomes

Naturally, to gauge your reaction, the article contained a poll, providing three options.

To keep things universal, the same poll features in every one of the subsequent articles.

But with three options to select from:

• Keep Him!
• Loan Him!

and

• Sell Him!

How did you respond to a player who, since signing from Morecambe, last summer, only made 2 Championship starts plus a further 7 from the bench?

Well, it wasn’t all doom and gloom for the player with 22% wanting to Keep Him as opposed to the 26% who wanted to Sell Him.

But by far the most popular choice for the 23-year-old was to Loan Him, an option that received 52% of the vote.

Clearly the belief is that Carlos does have something to offer and that he could, given some regular game time elsewhere, still prove to have a future at Kenilworth Road.

Interestingly, in an article published by Luton Today, the gaffer, Nathan Jones, had nothing but praise for Carlos, remarking:

“Carlos came, with the greatest of respect, from being the star player at Morecambe, but coming into a real high-tempo, aggressive, good Championship side is a different kettle of fish, so he’s taken a bit of time to settle.

“That’s natural, but he’s got real ability.”

However, I can’t help thinking the plethora of signings made this summer have pushed Carlos further down the pecking order and, like the majority that voted, perhaps a season-long loan spell is needed to resurrect that confidence and develop Carlos into a player that can hold his own in the Championship.

COYH’s

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