Peter Ridsdale on Sam Greenwood and loans

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00:00Right. With the two loans, Magoma and Portia, are they just straight loans to the end of the season?

00:05Have there been any discussions about the summer potentially? Obviously, Jadon's catching people's

00:09eye already. Is it too early to say?

00:12Yeah, look, the frustration I sometimes get is when we get really good young loans and then people say,

00:19why didn't we have an option or whatever in it? Loans fall into a lot of different categories.

00:24There's more experienced players who, for varying reasons, might become available permanently from

00:30their club. There are young players, just as we send young players out on loan, where the clubs

00:37themselves are at a higher level. They want the players to get game time, but they've got no

00:46desire to sell those players on a permanent basis. And with Kane and Jadon, they're both

00:54Premier League players. Their clubs have put them in here to get experience in the Championship play

00:59games. And at no stage have they ever intimated that there is a desire or willingness to sell

01:06those players. And my gut feel, knowing what's happening in the market at the moment, given they

01:10are Premier League, their expectation level of what they think those players might be worth

01:16probably is way above anything we've historically paid for a permanent transfer. You just have to

01:21look at some of the players we've had from the Premier League on loan and what value they've

01:27gone for when they've been sold. You know, whether it be Sepp Van den Berg, or whether it be Liam

01:31de Lap, Jordan Pickford, you just go through them all. They're tens of millions, they're not

01:36half a million, two million. So each loan falls into different categories. We have an option

01:45on Sam Greenwood. Ryan, I don't want to go into too much detail, but you know, if he likes it here

01:53and we like him, there is a chance we might have discussions beyond the summer. But I say every

01:59loan, depending on how old they are, where they're coming from, who their parent club is, falls into

02:03a different category. You mentioned Greenwood before. Is that one to look at in the summer,

02:07the option to buy him? Obviously, the Leeds factor you've previously touched on, and they

02:12look like they're probably going to get promoted, so that might make it difficult.

02:17The decision on that will be in two people's hands, and that's the manager here and Sam's

02:23hands. The Leeds promotion or otherwise is not a complicating factor, because all of that's been

02:30taken into account in the numbers that have already been agreed between us and Leeds. And

02:37if Sam says I'd like to sign for Preston, and the manager says I'd like him to sign,

02:42the financials are already agreed. Whether Leeds stay down or go up is irrelevant.