The SPFL is considering a relaxation of the rules on loans between teams in the Scottish Premiership, The Scottish Sun reports.
Currently, Celtic and others are only able to loan one player to each rival in the top-flight but new rules being proposed would double that to two.
The club would also be able to loan as many as four out to individual lower league teams, doubled from the current limit of two, if the green light is given to the new rules.
It’s unclear whether sides would be able to have more than the current quota of four loan players in their registered squads at any one time.
Celtic, along with Rangers, are said by the paper to be in favour of the changes because it could help our talented young development players gain first-team football more easily.
Last season the Hoops heavily utilised the ability to send players on loan to other Scottish sides.
Anthony Ralston and Ewan Henderson made the switch to top-flight sides St Johnstone and Ross County.
Meanwhile, Ross Doohan, Daniel Church, Robbie Deas, Stephen Welsh, Lee O’Connor, Conor Hazard and Jonathan Afolabi all spent time in the lower divisions of the SPFL.
Anything that allows our young players to get more first-team experience should be seen as a positive, especially since there looks to be little chance of colt sides being introduced.
Would it be beneficial for Karamoko Dembele to make the switch to a Premiership side for example? Or could Luca Connell do well at a team that would previously be unable to bring in another Celtic loan player?
It’s an interesting development and one to watch over the coming weeks.
In other news, Celtic captain Scott Brown has been left impressed by the training performances of Patryk Klimala and Ismaila Soro.
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