Birmingham City boss Alex McLeish hopes to maintain their relationship with Arsenal to secure more loan signings next season.
"It's a system that's in place and one that rightly should used," McLeish told The Blues' official website.
"We'll be playing in a hugely competitive league so I don't think we should be saying 'no, we won't be taking any loan players in and that we're just going to do it ourselves and buy players for big money to get back to the Premier League.
"We will certainly use the system if we can get players of the calibre of Larsson, Muamba and Bendtner.
"At the end of the end of the day we've got contacts, but who is to say that my Championship competitors don't have the same contacts?
"Sometimes it can help, but the main thing is what suits the club that's loaning the player?
"If they think it suits them for their player to come [to] Birmingham they'll do it regardless of the friendship and if they feel it benefits their club and it benefits their player."