4 PSG Players Who Should Be Loaned Out in 2015-16 Season

With UEFA’s financial fair play (FFP) restrictions on Paris Saint-Germain’s spending and Champions League squad size officially lifted on Friday, Les Parisiens are now expected to embark upon a summer spending spree.

However, with their squad size for continental competition going back up from 21 players to 25 as well as their ability to spend, the need for homegrown talent to fill some of those squad spaces is greater this year than it was last year.

PSG possess a fertile youth academy and have plenty of excellent young gems developing at present, as was proved during this summer’s UEFA European Under-17 Championship in Bulgaria and the Toulon Tournament by the likes of Odsonne Edouard and Romain Habran.

Some of those prospects, as well as others who have already been on loan or even featured in the starting XI like Hervin Ongenda and Lucas Digne, have genuine star potential.

Those talents need regular games and experience if they are to continue to progress along their current trajectory and make it into the first team.

These starlets would make up the numbers in the Champions League, but keeping them at Parc des Princes this campaign would not necessarily be the best thing for their development.

Here are four PSG players who should be loaned out in the coming 2015-16 season.

Romain Habran

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After a constructive spell on loan with FC Sochaux-Montbeliard in Ligue 2 last season, Romain Habran went on to play an important role in France’s success at this summer’s Toulon Tournament.

The 21-year-old midfielder scored two goals and laid on one more in the 23 appearances he made for Les Lionceaux in the second tier, but he really caught the eye with a stunning long-range effort against the Netherlands in the final group-stage match in Toulon.

He scored another, provided one more and then got himself red-carded in the space of 10 wild second-half minutes of a tempestuous 3-1 final win over Morocco, proving that he has talent but also needs further work before he is ready for Laurent Blanc's (pictured) PSG first team.

A loan move to another Ligue 1 side could be the step up that Habran needs in order to make that progression.

Jean-Kevin Augustin

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On the fringes of coach Laurent Blanc’s (pictured) first team squad last season, highly rated attacking talent Jean-Kevin Augustin is another player who should be loaned out this coming season by PSG.

Back in February, the 18-year-old penned his first professional contract, tying him to the club until 2018. This move delighted the capital club's president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, as he revealed to PSG.fr.

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It's normal to show our confidence in the talented young players emerging from our youth academy. We are very happy that Jean-Kevin Augustin has chosen to sign his first professional contract with the club, because he represents the future of Paris Saint-Germain.

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Augustin has had little experience of first-team football so far, aside from a few fleeting substitute appearances and friendly run-outs.

A loan move to a Ligue 2 side, like in Habran’s last term, could benefit the prolific starlet as he ultimately seeks a starting role at Parc des Princes.

With three Paris-based clubs just one tier below the French champions, there is even the possibility that he remains in the capital and still gets the regular games and experience he needs in order to develop.

Hervin Ongenda

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Over the past 12 months, Hervin Ongenda’s progression has hit a brick wall.

Once one of PSG's brightest young academy gems, such was the failure of the 20-year-old’s season-long loan spell with SC Bastia in Ligue 1 last campaign that the talented young attacker cannot afford to get his next move wrong.

Despite having made a few appearances at senior level with Les Parisiens, it quickly became obvious that the move to Corsica was not going to work out.

Claude Makelele, the man responsible for bringing Ongenda to Bastia, departed less than four months into the season.

The PSG starlet only made six starts with I Turchini and 10 more as a substitute. By the end of the campaign he was not even featuring in the match-day squad and often trained with the reserves.

In hindsight, a loan move to a Ligue 2 side would have been better for him, and that may well be his next step.

Lucas Digne

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Since arriving at Parc des Princes back in 2013, it has been an up-and-down experience for left-back Lucas Digne.

The 21-year-old secured his place in France’s 2014 FIFA World Cup squad, yet he has found it impossible to dislodge veteran Brazilian Maxwell as Laurent Blanc’s first choice in the role.

With the 2016 UEFA European Championship now less than 12 months away, the pressure is on Digne to get himself back into contention for a squad place after losing his role in Didier Deschamps’ latest selections.

The only way that the Frenchman can be sure that he will win back his place with Les Bleus is by playing week in, week out at club level.

A permanent move, although it may appeal strongly to Digne, is perhaps not the best solution to his problem. Liverpool and AS Roma have been linked with him, according to the Express’ Ben Jefferson.

There is no doubt that the former Lille OSC man has the talent to eventually inherit Maxwell’s left-back role in the starting XI, but the process is taking longer than expected. The PSG No. 21 is perhaps in need of a little character-building as well.

By moving away from Paris permanently, Digne runs the risk of not hitting the ground running with his new side and ending his Euro 2016 hopes.

A move within Ligue 1 to a side that can guarantee him the regular minutes he needs would be the change he requires in order to get his place back in the France squad.