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…
The Loan Report: Season in Review – Belgium, France and Italy
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 Belgium, France and Italy. Who? [table class=”table table-striped”] Player,Club,Apps,Goals,Assists Kurt Zouma,Saint Etienne,9,0,1 Gael Kakuta,Lazio,2,0,0 Wallace,Inter,4,0,0 Thorgan Hazard,Zulte Waregem,50,17,20 Billy Clifford,Antwerp,4,0,0 [/table] (Zouma’s appearances count from when he signed for Chelsea) The Story? Signed during the January transfer window and…
The Loan Report: Season in Review – The Netherlands
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 The Netherlands. Who? [table class=”table table-striped”] Player,Club,Apps,Goals,Assists Christian Atsu,Vitesse,28,5,6 Cristian Cuevas,Vitesse/FC Eindhoven,15,1,0 Sam Hutchinson,Vitesse,2,0,0 Gael Kakuta,Vitesse,14,3,1 Lucas Piazon,Vitesse,31,11,8 Stipe Perica,NAC Breda,26,6,1 Patrick van Aanholt,Vitesse,34,5,3 Bertrand Traore,Vitesse,15,3,0 [/table] The Story It was a season of what could have been in…
Academy Season Review: Under-18s
For the third time in five seasons, Chelsea are the FA Youth Cup holders. Their latest success will live in academy folklore for years to come as Adi Viveash’s boys rescued themselves from two goals behind on aggregate to defeat Fulham in the last minute of a breathless tie against West London neighbours Fulham to eventually triumph 7-6 over the course of two epic legs. It was a fitting conclusion…
Academy Season Review: Under-21s
In the fledgling weeks of the 2013-14 season, Chelsea’s Academy Manager Neil Bath revealed that it was his and the club’s intention to treat the Barclays Under-21 Premier League perhaps more seriously than they have in previous years. That’s not to say that they haven’t approached it with anything less than professional commitment in recent times, but the sentiment was different this time. They were targeting silverware. Ten months later,…
The Loan Report: May 12-18
It’s the final Loan Report of the 2013-14 season, and the streak is over. In every single week of the club campaign stretching as far back as the first days of August, a Chelsea loanee has scored a goal. More than thirty players have combined for over forty different loan deals and 123 goals but with fewer than a one third of that tally left in action over the past…
Academy Season Review: 50 Sensational Strikes
It’s been another remarkable campaign for the Chelsea Football Club academy. The Under-18s recaptured the FA Youth Cup to claim a third win in five years and more than half a dozen of those players then went on to play a part in the Under-21s winning their first national title in three years. The Blues have some of the best players in the country, if not Europe, across every age…
Under-21s: Manchester United 1-2 Chelsea
Chelsea are Barclays Under-21 Premier League Champions after a 2-1 win over Manchester United in the national Final at Old Trafford on Wednesday night. On an evening of drama and superb entertainment from two of the foremost youth setups in the country, United took an early lead through Tom Lawrence but Chelsea were soon on terms when Charly Musonda displayed guile and trickery to dance his way through for a…
The Loan Report: May 5-11
The season may be winding down and the overall number of Chelsea loanees continues to dwindle with campaigns wrapping up across Europe, but the goalscoring streak that has been alive since the opening weekend back in July is alive and kicking. Thorgan Hazard and Romelu Lukaku took it into a 38th week over the past seven days and we begin with the irrepressible Belgian duo. Headliners Hazard has been terrific…
FA Youth Cup: Chelsea 5-3 Fulham (Chelsea win 7-6 on aggregate)
It was a match that came with the most ridiculous script. Hollywood would barely have accepted it as a realistic proposal, but in what will in all likelihood be the final match played on the Stamford Bridge pitch this season, Chelsea’s Under-18s won a fifth FA Youth Cup, a third in five seasons and a second in three, and they did it in unbelievable circumstances. Trailing 3-2 to Fulham from…