The Chelsea fans in the Transfer Tavern have been reacting to their club’s latest instalment of Chelsea here Chelsea there, via the club’s website. The Blues have developed a reputation for stifling youth development and loaning out a shed load of players without every providing them with first-team opportunities.
An update on our players out on loan… https://t.co/3locE1F9Q7
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) April 3, 2018
In recent years, Chelsea’s youth has made permanent moves away from Stamford Bridge in order to pursue regular first-team football. Nathan Ake, Nathaniel Chalobah and Dominic Solanke all walked away from Chelsea last summer for Bournemouth, Watford and Liverpool respectively. The club looked like they could’ve used some of their sparkling on-loan prospects as they were well beaten by Spurs at Stamford Bridge on Sunday for the first time in 28 years.
The Chelsea fans have been calling for a number of young players to be given a chance at the club and with every edition of Chelsea here Chelsea there the fans voices grow louder as they call for players such as Kenedy, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Michy Batshuayi, Kurt Zouma, Mason Mount and Mark Van Ginkel to be thrown into the senior squad at Chelsea after impressing with their different clubs across Europe on loan. With the club having just an FA Cup semi-final to look forward to and looking increasingly unlikely to secure Champions League football, throwing some young guns into the spotlight wouldn’t hurt.
You can read our resident Blues’ verdict on Chelsea here Chelsea there below:
All 9000 of them
— Kadz Woods (@Kadzwoods) April 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/supersabroman10/status/981136437595668481
https://twitter.com/tony_wentworth/status/981156087977082880
https://twitter.com/A_U_Han/status/981161568485310464
https://twitter.com/LaissaCastro/status/981126646190223360
That headline is the correct defination of our defence
— To (@Tonypromise123) 3 April 2018
Can we start discussin the transfer window?
— Nonoe (@lisanotty) April 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/tog1989/status/981122666005454848
