With Jurgen Klopp reshaping his squad this summer, Liverpool began work on a number of loan deals, with the Liverpool Echo's David Prentice reporting on their fail-safe clause in July, revealing that "clubs [would be] penalised financially if a player they have loaned does not play in a specified ratio of matches."
This ratio was believed to be 75 percent, but while the likes of Danny Ward (Huddersfield Town), Ryan Fulton (Chesterfield) and Adam Bogdan (Wigan Athletic) have met that target so far, the same can't be said of Jon Flanagan at Burnley.