To round up the 2012-13 youth football season at Chelsea, we’re reviewing every single one of the Chelsea youngsters currently on the books who have spent time out on loan during the campaign. Here, we focus on Ulises Dávila. Club: Sabadell (Spain) Appearances: 36 (5 goals) The Story In his second year as a Chelsea player, Mexican winger Dávila finally started to gain some traction in his career and enjoyed…
To round up the 2012-13 youth football season at Chelsea, we’re reviewing every single one of the Chelsea youngsters currently on the books who have spent time out on loan during the campaign. Here, we focus on Thibaut Courtois. Club: Atlético Madrid (Spain) Appearances: 44 The Story There is no Chelsea loanee more capable of coming in and playing for the club at an elite level off the bat than…
To round up the 2012-13 youth football season at Chelsea, we’re reviewing every single one of the Chelsea youngsters currently on the books who have spent time out on loan during the campaign. Here, we focus on Lucas Piazon. Team: Málaga (Spain) Appearances: 13 The Story Lucas Piazón’s mid-season departure to Málaga was a curious one, for the Brazilian hadn’t really worked himself into the first team squad at Chelsea…
To round up the 2012-13 youth football season at Chelsea, we’re reviewing every single one of the Chelsea youngsters currently on the books who have spent time out on loan during the campaign. Here, we focus on Michael Essien. Club: Real Madrid (Spain) Appearances: 34 (2 goals) The Story We didn’t cover Michael Essien during the course of the season in the weekly Loan Report, primarily because he’s the rare…
The final Loan Report of the 2012-13 season sees us catch up on the few young Chelsea starlets who are for some reason still playing domestic European football in early June, as well as the usual round-up of the two South American based youngsters. Jhon Pírez will rarely be afforded the opportunity to feature as the main man of the week, but the injury-embattled Uruguayan forward seized his moment this…
To round up the 2012-13 youth football season at Chelsea, we’re reviewing every single one of the Chelsea youngsters currently on the books who have spent time out on loan during the campaign. Here, we focus on Nathaniel Chalobah. Club: Watford Appearances: 42 (5 goals) The Story Well, where do you begin with young Nathaniel? A transfer deadline day move to Watford promised much last summer but it’s safe to…
To round up the 2012-13 youth football season at Chelsea, we’re reviewing every single one of the Chelsea youngsters currently on the books who have spent time out on loan during the campaign. Here, we focus on Matej Delac. Club: Vitória SC (Portugal), Inter Zapresic (Croatia) Appearances: 1 (Vitória), 16 (Inter) The Story Delac’s young yet problematic career has sort of some full circle this season as he’s ended up…
To round up the 2012-13 youth football season at Chelsea, we’re reviewing every single one of the Chelsea youngsters currently on the books who have spent time out on loan during the campaign. Here, we focus on Jeffrey Bruma. Club: Hamburg (Germany) Appearances: 18 (1 goal) The Story Jeffrey Bruma’s two-year loan at Hamburg can only be described as a failure, even to the most optimistic follower. Consigned to backup…
On a weekend where some of the remaining young Chelsea loanees could have experienced the glory of coming out on the winning side with huge stakes at play, they instead felt the heartbreaking side of football. Nowhere was this more on display than at Wembley Stadium on Monday afternoon, where Nathaniel Chalobah and Watford took on Crystal Palace in ‘football’s most expensive match’, with a place in the Premier League…
As we do every year, it’s time to finish the Youth and Under-21 season review with a look back at some of the best moments of the last ten months, as we’ve been thoroughly well entertained by the next generation of Chelsea footballers once again. Youth Team Reaching the finals of the FA Youth Cup and the NextGen Series…Enjoying an eleven game unbeaten run to start the Under-18 league season…Winning…