It would surely be the age of the player that might be loaned as to where. There must be a step into Liverpool’s first team (for example) and league two is not necessarily good prep for Premier league or champions league football.
Too young and this might be a fools errand and may in fact stifle some of our own academy youngsters. Older loaners might consider league two too far down the pyramid to really prove themselves.
I’d like to think as SWTT said that this might be because RL is actually looking to fill most if not all positions with signings but we shouldn’t cut our nose off if the right player becomes available.
It might also be that with some of our little ducks coming into line with sell ons there might be a little more money for RL to assemble a squad in his image to go through league one in a year or twos time.