YORK City boss Jackie McNamara might have loaned in nine players during two-and-a-half months at the Bootham Crescent helm but he reckons next season's scrapping of such moves outside the transfer window could benefit the Sky Bet League Two strugglers.

The English FA have been under pressure to fall in line with a FIFA directive for several years and have finally relented ahead of the 2016/17 campaign.

That means clubs on these shores will not be able to recruit players on a temporary basis outside of August and January.

This term, under those conditions, previous boss Russ Wilcox would not have been able to recruit Michael Collins, Bryn Morris and Rhys Turner while, similarly, McNamara would have been prevented from bringing in Will Boyle, Bradley Fewster, Mark Kitching, Jordan Lussey, Kenny McEvoy and Stefan O'Connor.

In past seasons, meanwhile, it would have deprived the club of the services of Diego De Girolamo, Brad Halliday, Keith Lowe, Stephane Zubar, Richard Cresswell, Luke O'Neill, Adam Reed and net-minder Nick Pope, although it is unclear whether teams will still be able to recruit on-loan goalkeepers in emergency circumstances.

Despite his reliance on such transfers during his turbulent tenure, though, McNamara is not normally a big advocate of the loan system and is predicting that the law changes could mean more promising youngsters will now become available to clubs like City on a full-time basis.

"It may help the likes of ourselves because big clubs might not carry as many players any more," he reasoned. "At the moment, we are developing other teams' players and you would rather reap the benefits of that yourself.

"With the new rules, clubs might make earlier decisions on such players and make them available for permanent moves rather than loans, so they've not got as many people in the building and that could be good for clubs like us. We might be able to get more in like Matty Dixon and Kenny McEvoy. so we can work with them while they are still young.

"We've had to do things since coming in to help us but, in an ideal world, I'd rather have been here at the start of the season and got everything done squad wise then. You would prefer to work with full-time players from the start, then add one or two in January if needed."

Having seen life from the other side, as a top-flight manager in Scotland, McNamara is speaking from an authoritative positions when he reasons that bigger clubs might suffer more than smaller outfits when the loan system is restricted next term.

"I loaned young players out at Dundee United to other sides to gain experience and you saw the rewards with one or two," he explained. "Johnny Russell, who is at Derby now, went to Forfar and Raith and came back a better player for it."

McNamara also has first-hand experience of how the current loan regulations can help out-of-favour senior players resurrect their careers elsewhere - something that might prove troublesome under the new rulings.

"When I was at Falkirk, I was at the point of my career where I needed to get out because the manager had left and I didn't want to stay, so it was a good option for me then to go to Partick Thistle," he explained.

Within 15 months of that move, McNamara had taken over as manager of Thistle, ushering in the next stage of his career in the game.