Loaning out a player with no option to recall

[Glen_Runciter]

I feel weird for starting a topic for such a tiny problem, but the only "Quick questions" topic I could find was the one for tactics and training, we should probably have a general one as well.

So, I'm beginning the 20/21 season managing Darlington in Vanarama North, a semi-pro team with part-time contracts. Took over the team in December of the first season, so this is my first off-season with them.

My issue is that whomever I'm trying to loan out (all part-time players, all of them on 1 year contracts, one of them on a 2 year contract), I can't include the "Can be recalled" option in the deal, regardless of how long do I set the loan to be. As a matter of fact, the only option not greyed out is "Can play for parent club reserves", but I wouldn't use the other ones anyway.

Am I right the assume that this is WAD, and the reason behind it is the rule that you can't recall players in the same transfer window they were loaned out in, but in Vanarama North, the transfer window is basically the entire season minus the last month?

I have my concerns, because somehow my players never went to holiday, there was automatically 2-weeks of "pre-season early" training scheduled after the previous season, followed by a few weeks of rest, and then the rest of the pre-season, so I'm worried that the game is confused what a "season" is.