I would say more so young loan players. Middleton hasn’t been at his best the last few games, but I think most rational people are patient enough to give him time to develop.
I can understand more apprehension in giving a young loanee time, unless it’s a 2 year deal. If Ejaria is going to take time to settle and be generally inconsistent, I can’t help but feel we’d be better allowing one of our own players that time instead, say McCrorie.
I have no problem with giving loans time to settle, but on the whole the majority of them need to be coming in and hitting the ground running. I don’t see any benefit in us giving another team’s player 40 games in a season, but he only plays well in ~10.