MadAmster - setting aside that which our resident zombie copied from the Derby Telegraph (
https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/spo...recall-1191104), the EFL rules state (salient points highlighted):
"53.1.1 subject to the proviso that the duration of a Standard Loan must be the time between two Transfer Windows, Standard Loans can be for half a Season or a full Season;
53.1.2
any recall clause requiring the early termination of a Standard Loan can only be included in a full Season Standard Loan and this can only be activated during the second (January) Transfer Window;
53.1.3 any
other early termination of a Standard Loan must be by way of a
mutual agreement in writing (including by way of a recall clause within the Standard Loan Agreement)
between the Transferor Club, the Transferee Club and the Player but can only be completed:
(a) after the expiry of 28 days; and (b) only during a Transfer Window (but subject to Regulation 53.1.4 below)
unless otherwise agreed by the League in its absolute discretion (subject to such conditions as the League deems appropriate);"
So I would suggest that we have no automatic right to recall and in any event we cannot do anything before the end of February. However if we have inserted a recall clause, then if the player and both clubs agree, and the league sanction it, then I would think we could recall players.
The above assumes that we entered into standard loan agreements. Nick Blackman of course was transferred out of the EFL and so it maybe possibly easy (or subject to different rules) to recall him. Not that I am advocating it, but he is supposedly playing well there at the moment.