The BBC do an article about the loan system and have to lump City in with Chelsea (who have 23 players on loan)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29280337
City have only 3 senior (21+ age group) players on loan - Micah Richards, John Gudetti and Karim Rekik as all other loans are EDS lads i.e. just out to get competitive league experience because there are no reserve teams anymore i.e. Denayer, Lopes, Cole, Zuculini, Drury, Leigh, Plummer, Rusnak, O'Brien, Johansen etc. and to be honest I think we should have not got Lampard on loan until Jan but kept Zuculini and used him as backup. Thus a max of 13 players on loan and 10 of these from the EDS.
We surely cannot be accused of abusing the system, in the same way\extent Chelsea are and have done, and yet again we get labelled alongside a negative story.
Negredo is not a loan but a sale (simply a delayed payment until next summer), and even Richards the club really wanted to sell and get a fee for but Italian clubs seem to want to get everything on the cheap.
Utd have the following on loan:
Hernandez (Real Madrid)
Cleverley (Aston Villa)
Zaha (Crystal Palace)
Powell (Leicester)
Nani (Sporting Lisbon)
Henriquez (Dinamo Zagreb)
Keane (Burnley)
Varela (Real Madrid)
and of course have Falcao on loan themselves from Monaco
but lets not highlight them by putting them into a graphic to show abuse of the football loan system. Lets just lump in City with Chelsea for that purpose and show a team made up from their loans.