Dirk Gently Let's just cut all the crap about attitudes, anti-player bias, favourites, etc.
How about if SC has decided that two of his strikers Kits & Lita can't play together for whatever reason?
He either drops Kits and brings in Lita now, except that he's not match fit - or he decides to stick with Kits for the next 4 matches while Lita goes on loan for the shortest period you can do a loan for, gets match fit and hopefully bangs in a hatful of real goals and gets a good confidence boost.
Seems eminently sensible to me, and in 28 days SC's range of options will be a lot stronger than they are now.
OK - now back to the wild speculation, prejudices and bickering.....
Only flaw is that it's never stopped him bringing players in before has it?
Long didnt go out on loan before starting. Marek came straight into the side after playing a lot less games than Lita has recently, etc etc etc