Stoke City were the go-to club for loan recruits last season. Ashley Phillips, Andrew Moran, Lewis Koumas, Ali Al-Hamadi, Tom Cannon and Josh Wilson-Esbrand all featured for the Potters at different points of the campaign - and with varying levels of success.
Cannon looked to be the striker Stoke have needed for several seasons now, bagging 11 goals before his good form caught to eye of parent club Leicester City and then promotion chasers Sheffield United.
It all ended with Cannon being recalled in January and then sold to the Blades for about £10m. But if Chris Wilder and Co thought they had found the man to fire them into the Premier League, they were sadly mistaken. Cannon was only on target once in 15 games as United lost out in the play-offs to Sunderland.
Phillips, the young Spurs centre-half now being courted by the Blades, was arguably the best of the loan bunch last season. He was was as good as an automatic pick under Mark Robins. However, Wilson-Esbrand, who had worked with Robins at Coventry, was probably the worse.
Of the rest, Moran and Koumas did okay for youngsters still developing their games, while Ipswich striker Al-Hamadi struggled with injuries too much to adequately replace the goals that Cannon had provided.
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So what can we expect for the new season? Clubs like Stoke - as in those that are cash rich but hamstrung by EFL spending rules - just cannot afford to ignore loan recruits, even though their success is largely hit and miss.
The key is probably taking just the right number to bolster your squad, but not make it too reliant on players who could be snatched away if they do really well. At the very least, loan clubs risk bringing players on, only to see them walk away for nothing. Cannon and Phillips are two clear examples.
It can work. Burnley were the only club in the Championship to rely as heavily on the loan market as Stoke City last term and are now back in the Premier League, but they are probably the exception who prove the loans rule.
So as Robins and Co plot their transfers for next season, StokeonTrentLive brings you the 76 loans that have now ended and the players who may well be let out on loan again next term...
Goalkeepers
Mark Travers (Middlesbrough from Bournemouth)
James Beadle (Sheffield Wednesday from Brighton)
Defenders
Dion Sanderson (Blackburn from Birmingham)
Owen Beck (Blackburn from Liverpool)
Bashir Humphreys (Burnley from Chelsea)
Nat Phillips (Derby from Liverpool)
Finley Burns (Hull from Man City)
Kal Naismith (Luton from Bristol City)
Ryan Giles (Middlesbrough from Hull)
Zak Sturge (Millwall from Chelsea)
Calum Scanlon (Millwall from Liverpool)
Callum Doyle (Norwich City from Man City)
Ben Nelson (Leicester City from Oxford)
Nikola Katic (Plymouth Argyle from Zürich)
Tymoteusz Puchacz (Plymouth Argyle from Holstein Kiel)
Rob Atkinson (Portsmouth from Bristol City)
Kaine Kesler-Hayden (Preston from Aston Villa)
Ryan Porteous (Preston from Watford)
Jayden Meghoma (Preston from Brentford)
Ronnie Edwards (QPR from Southampton)
Harrison Ashby (QPR from Newcastle)
Harry Souttar (Sheffield United from Leicester)
Alfie Gilchrist (Sheffield United from Chelsea)
Harry Clarke (Sheffield United from Ipswich)
Rob Holding (Sheffield United from Crystal Palace)
Josh Wilson-Esbrand ( Stoke from Man City)
Ashley Phillips (Stoke from Tottenham)
Chris Mepham (Sunderland from Bournemouth)
Hannes Delcroix (Swansea from Burnley)
Yasser Larouci (Watford from Troyes)
James Abankwah (Watford from Udinese)
Paddy McNair (West Brom from San Diego)
Mason Holgate (West Brom from Everton)
Midfielders
George Earthy (Bristol City from West Ham)
Will Alves (Cardiff from Leicester)
Sivert Mannsverk (Cardiff from Ajax)
David Ozoh (Derby from Crystal Palace)
Harrison Armstrong (Derby from Everton)
Lincoln (Hull from Fenerbache)
Joe Rothwell (Leeds from Bournemouth)
Josh Bowler (Luton from Nottingham Forest)
Ryan Wintle (Millwall from Cardiff)
Alex Matos (Oxford from Chelsea)
Darko Gyabi (Plymouth from Leeds)
Isaac Hayden (Portsmouth from Newcastle)
Freddie Potts (Portsmouth from West Ham)
Adil Aouchiche (Portsmouth from Sunderland)
Sam Greenwood (Preston from Leeds)
Karamoko Dembele (QPR from Brest)
Hamza Choudhury (Sheffield United from Leicester City)
Shea Charles (Sheffield Wednesday from Southampton)
Andrew Moran (Stoke from Brighton)
Enzo Le Fee (Sunderland from Roma)
Salis Abdul Samed (Sunderland from Lens)
Lewis O'Brien (Swansea from Nottingham Forest)
Forwards
Amario Cozier-Duberry (Blackburn from Brighton)
Cauley Woodrow (Blackburn from Luton)
Jeremy Sarmiento (Burnley from Brighton)
Marcus Edwards (Burnley from Sporting Lisbon)
Jaidon Anthony (Burnley from Bournemouth)
Jerry Yates (Derby County from Swansea)
Joe Gelhardt (Hull from Leeds United)
Louie Barry (Hull from Aston Villa)
Manor Solomon (Leeds from Tottenham)
Samuel Iling-Junior (Middlesbrough from Aston Villa)
Kelechi Iheanacho (Middlesbrough from Sevilla)
Ben Doak (Middlesbrough from Liverpool)
Josh Coburn (Millwall from Middlesbrough)
Lewis Dobbin (Norwich from Aston Villa)
Muhamed Tijani (Plymouth from Slavia Prague)
Michael Obafemi (Plymouth from Burnley)
Kaide Gordon (Portsmouth from Liverpool)
Mark O'Mahony (Portsmouth from Brighton)
Koki Saito (QPR from Lommel)
Min-hyeok Yang (QPR from Tottenham)
Jesurun Rak-Sakyi (Sheffield United from Crystal Palace)
Ben Brereton Diaz (Sheffield United from Southampton)
Ibrahim Cissoko (Plymouth from Toulouse)
Lewis Koumas (Stoke from Liverpool)
Ali Al-Hamadi (Stoke from Ipswich)
Jayden Danns (Sunderland from Liverpool)
Myles Peart-Harris (Swansea from Brentford)
Adam Armstrong (West Brom from Southampton)
Will Lankshear (West Brom from Tottenham)
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