FIFA’S decision to give the emergency loan system a stay of execution is good news for football, says Neil Lennon.

The Whites boss added Liverpool youngster Jordan Lussey to his squad before yesterday's loan deadline closed and he does not like the idea some clubs could be left high and dry by not being able to recruit outside the two traditional windows.

Emergency loans allow clubs outside the Premier League to bring in a player for a maximum of 93 days. The sport’s governing body wanted to scrap the system at the end of this season but have now been talked down, extending its use to the end of 2015-16.

Wanderers are one of 70 clubs in the Football League to have taken advantage, bringing in Ben Amos from Manchester United and Giles Coke from Sheffield Wednesday when they needed cover last month and Owen Garvan (Crystal Palace) and Chris Herd (Aston Villa) earlier in the campaign.

And Lennon believes to remove the privilege would put undue financial pressure on clubs to carry more playing staff.

“If it hadn’t been for the emergency loan system we would have found ourselves in a spot of bother,” he told The Bolton News.

“Every club will look at it on their own merit, what it brings for them, but I personally have found it very useful and I wouldn’t like to see the back of it. I’m sure there are other clubs who would feel the same.

“In an ideal world I wouldn’t have to use it because the likes of Max Clayton, Darren Pratley, Adam Bogdan, Marc Tierney and Mark Davies wouldn’t be injured long-term.

“But when these injuries happen, not many clubs can afford to carry the size of squad you would need to cover – certainly for the number of injuries we have picked up.”

Only one Championship club – Leeds United – has not used an emergency loan this season, while League Two side Tranmere Rovers have used it 12 times to supplement their squad. In all, more than 350 players have moved between clubs since the summer on short-term deals.

Wanderers’ next opponents Blackpool lead the way in the Championship with eight emergency loans but Lennon sympathises with the circumstances at Bloomfield Road where the turnover of players has been higher than anywhere else in the Football League this season.

“You have to look at the situation of clubs like Blackpool, and it’s a needs-must situation,” he said. “It isn’t ideal, I’m sure Lee Clark would say that too, and maybe that’s one of the reasons FIFA are looking at the rule, maybe they think they are abusing it, I don’t know.”

But multiple loans – as Lennon has found out – can also present their own fair share of problems.

Wanderers had nine loanees available at one point, seven of which were either international or long-term loans.

“Regardless of how many loans you have got in, you can only play five at any one time,” Lennon said. “It’s been hard enough for us to do that, it’s been hard on the players having to be left out of the squad completely.

“It does present it’s own problems but if you can only play five I don’t see what the problem is if you have more than that in your squad.”?