I don’t normally read too much into press reports regarding players coming and going but there have been a few stories about players going out on loan recently that have all been proved correct.

The latest is the news that Anderson is on the verge of a loan move to Lyon.

There’s enough about the whole situation with Anderson to make this one quite believable.

Anderson is struggling to make a real impact at Manchester United. You could argue that now that Fergie appears to have settled on Fletcher and Carrick as his first choice, he isn’t being given enough games to prove himself in a decent run for the team.

The counter-argument, of course, is that Fergie hasn’t decided on Fletcher and Carrick at the expense of Anderson by drawing their names out of a hat.

The fact is, Anderson has been given opportunities and has often been found wanting, especially against the better opponents.

There was a bit of a problem with him at the start of the season when it was reported that he had a bit of a clash with Fergie. He found himself playing for the reserves the week later. I watched that reserve game and he was head and shoulders above everyone else on the field and he is clearly too good for that level but is not quite good enough to play at first team level regularly.

This latest development comes on the back of reports that he completely failed to turn up for training the other day and has been handed a substantial fine.

Fergie’s patience with the lad finally seems to have run out.

An interesting side-note to the story (and this is the bit that I wouldn’t be too surprised to discover is a figment of a journalists imagination) is that French international keeper Hugo Lloris could be coming in the opposite direction.

Watch this space…