It almost goes without saying that after a season in which more than thirty Chelsea players embarked on loan moves that we’re far from being done on that front this summer, but as we reach the one-week mark until the Football League (and Eredivisie) gets underway and we find ourselves two weeks out from the return of the Premier League, business is most definitely about to pick up. The Blues…
Chelsea’s Under-21s will begin the defence of their Barclays Under-21 Premier League title at home to Manchester City. In a repeat of the first ever fixture played in the ‘new’ Under-21 league back in 2012, the Blues will take on the team they edged on penalties in the Semi Final stage of last year’s competition as they open up the new campaign with a marquee fixture. It will be played…
Chelsea’s first team may have to wait until Wednesday to get their pre-season schedule of fixtures underway but their junior counterparts at Cobham are well and truly back in the swing of things as the first Saturday of the new campaign brought about a return to action for the Under-18 and Under-21 teams. Both sides are under new management for 2014-15 with Adi Viveash stepping up to replace Dermot Drummy…
It’s early July, which means it’s once again time to welcome a bunch of new faces into the Chelsea academy as the 2014-15 class of first-year scholars officially begin full-time work at the Cobham academy. How new they are to you however will be determined by how often you tuned into their FA Youth Cup winning campaign last season, and in reality, the full-time work has long since been a…
With the World Cup hurtling towards its conclusion more and more days of the week have become freed up with no live football to watch. Attentions have duly turned towards the return of club football for 2014-15 and whilst Chelsea’s first team aren’t set to return until Monday, the younger generation are already back and raring to go. At this time of year the potential stars of the future can…
Late June during a World Cup summer might seem an unusual time to be catching up on Chelsea loanees but the 2013-14 club season in Spain extended well into the summer as two Blues youngsters went in search of promotion. The playoffs in both the Segunda Division and the remarkably unforgiving Segunda B structure called for a long and tiring schedule, but one which ultimately successful in both cases. For…
With the 2013-14 season now pretty much over, it’s time to take a look back over a record-breaking campaign on the loan front. Today, we look at the Chelsea’s prospects in Spain. Who? [table class=”table table-striped”] Player,Club,Apps,Goals,Assists Thibaut Courtois,Atlético Madrid,55,0,0 Marko Marin,Sevilla,31,2,6 Oriol Romeu,Valencia,18,0,0 Ulises Dávila,Córdoba,31,5,n/a Jhon Pirez,Leganés,17,1,0 [/table] The Story? Courtois pieced together what would almost go down as the storybook year. Already a Copa del Rey, UEFA Europa…
With the 2013-14 season now pretty much over, it’s time to take a look back over a record-breaking campaign on the loan front. Today, we look at the Chelsea’s prospects in England. Who? [table class=”table table-striped”] Player,Club,Apps,Goals,Assists Ryan Bertrand,Aston Villa,16,0,0 Romelu Lukaku,Everton,33,16,6 Victor Moses,Liverpool,22,2,0 Patrick Bamford,MK Dons/Derby,52,25,5 Billy Clifford,Yeovil,1,0,0 Nathaniel Chalobah,Nottm Forest/Middlesbrough,24,3,0 Sam Hutchinson,Sheff Wed,10,1,1 Todd Kane,Blackburn,28,2,3 Josh McEachran, Watford/Wigan,19,0,1 Kenneth Omeruo,Middlesbrough,14,0,1 Milan Lalkovic,Walsall,42,6,4 Daniel Pappoe, Colchester/Kingstonian,14,0,0 George Saville,Brentford,44,3,4 Sam…
More than thirty Chelsea players combined for upwards of forty different loan moves during the 2013-14 season. Naturally, they combined to register a series of landmarks that are unlikely to be surpassed in the near future if at all. At least one of them scored for 37 consecutive weeks of the club campaign, falling short of an unbroken streak at the final hurdle. Twenty-one of them found the back of…
With the 2013-14 season now pretty much over, it’s time to take a look back over a record-breaking campaign on the loan front. Today, we look at the Chelsea’s prospects in Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Colombia. Who? [table class=”table table-striped”] Player,Club,Apps,Goals,Assists Matej Delac,FK Vojdovina/FK Sarajevo,25,0,0 Mario Pašalić,Hajduk Split,16,5,4 Joao Rodriguez,Uniautónoma,6,1,1 [/table] The Story Delac’s nomadic career took in two new destinations over the last nine months as he stopped in…