Everyone knows that David Beckham had a spell at Preston and John Terry cut his teeth at Nottingham Forest, but there's so many loans you'd be forgiven for completely forgetting about.
Ashley Cole's third London club? The blue strip worn by Jordan Henderson long before his glory days as a Red? Anyone? Or what about the semi-retired pro making the shock move from Motherwell to Manchester United?
It's very easy to forget that most top professionals, at some point in their careers, were sent out to gain valuable experience or were quite possibly an emergency capture.