NTT20 Scouts: Loan Rangers
Today, we’re rounding up the standout loanees of 2025/26 who look set to saddle up and ride back into the EFL for another season of development.
Howdee
Sam Parry: The summer transfer window is the Wild West: sun blazing, clubs scrambling and targets disappearing over the horizon before anyone can say “draw”.
We’ve already lassoed four correct calls from our first scouting bulletin. Now we’re heading back out on the trail, this time in search of the EFL and National League’s best temporary guns for hire.
Or, to put it another way, we’re going full Lone Ranger—well, more loan arranger.
Today, we’re looking at 5 players who thrived away from their parent clubs last season, assessing what made their loan spells work and identifying where they could ride out to next.
The rules of the territory are simple:
The player must have spent at least part of last season on loan at an EFL or National League club.
Their likeliest next move must be another loan, rather than a permanent transfer.
And before we saddle up, a quick word for anyone joining us midway through the journey: do go back and read the rest of our scouting coverage. This is not a collection of isolated wanted posters but one wider body of summer work—best followed from the start of the trail.
Amario Cozier-Duberry (RW), Brighton
George Elek
🚀 Ceiling — Wolves
🧱 Floor — Bolton
🎯 Sweet Spot — Millwall
First loans are tough, so they can often be discarded, and Amario Cozier-Dubbery left a disappointing spell at Blackburn well behind him as he helped to return Bolton to the second tier of English football last season. ACD was, for my money, the best player in League One when fit.