coolcol said
The trouble in the loan system at the minute is injuries so until that glitch is sorted extending loan deals is a no-go at the minute any injury your loan player gets added to loan weeks so you loan player for 4 weeks gets injured on the 1st week would then add injury time too weeks left on loan
I.e 3 weeks left with 2 week injury =5 weeks injured so just imagine on a 8 week loan injured on the 1st week for 2 weeks equal a 9 week injury then managers would no way loan out players as the risk way it high.
We could ask to raise loan age to 25 maybe
I actually don’t mind 4 weeks loan time as if you extend to 8 weeks but the loaning team and stop playing/subs bench then the loan isn’t getting the games he needs so managers will just shorten loan weeks anyway and also what happens if in your 8 week loan period the manager packs in then definitely you player isn’t going to get the games needed.
There are just my thoughts for now  

This is actually a myth that seems to have gained traction amongst managers. I've looked into it and it doesn't happen. Injury lengths are random, the fact that you get a 4 or 5 week injury from a player coming back from loan is just a coincidence and just as likely to happen to any player.

I don't think the loan system is broken and needs changing. There is a software problem in that when a club loans out a player then that player disappears from their squad until he comes back which isn't ideal. I don't think it's reasonable to expect managers to keep track of players they have out on loan for a whole season or even half a season. Imagine having 6 or 7 players suddenly returning from loan spells that you had forgotten about and what that would do to the 21 player squad max.

You can loan a player for as long as you want, there are no restrictions, he just has to return to his parent club every 4 turns. It takes a bit of effort and you miss the odd turn or two but I don't see changing it being an improvement.

Steve

MissRachelleDuFrans said

Vote for Manager League Representative/Spokesperson/Commissioner
This would be an option for voting experienced managers in each division to work with all new managers such as myself and help them traverse the uphill summit (no pun intended) of learning the ropes, they would act as a spokesperson on their grievances to the Summit FA, they would be a somewhat commissioner to oversee transfers solely to make sure others aren’t taking the Michael per se and lastly to help us with other things.

  

I'm not really sure where to go with this one Rachelle.

The forum is here to ask questions or seek advice from managers that actually play the game who are eager to help, I am here quite often to answer questions, there is a Support Ticket option which I respond to normally within 24 hours, there is a New Manager Tips document in the Downloads section.

Not really sure what else can be put in place to help new managers?

Steve