Chelsea are well on their way to a seventh straight FA Youth Cup Final after recording a very comfortable 3-0 win at Birmingham City in Wednesday night’s Semi Final First Leg at St Andrew’s. Tariq Uwakwe, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Charlie Brown scored to give the away team a firm hand on proceedings heading into the return leg in SW6 six nights from tonight, and they were scarcely in trouble of…
The Loan Report: March 29 – April 2
The final international break of the season gave way to a busy Easter schedule across Europe with Marco van Ginkel adding another goal to his tally, as PSV move closer to securing the Eredivisie title, whilst Nathan struck in another big game in Portugal. Headliners Van Ginkel was the sole goalscorer amongst the Loan Army this week, scoring his 15th of the season in PSV’s handsome 5-1 win at home…
Development Squad: Derby County 0-3 Chelsea
Chelsea’s bid to finish the Premier League 2 season well got off to a strong start on Saturday as Daishawn Redan’s hat-trick led the Development Squad to a 3-0 win over Derby County at St George’s Park. With only three fixtures left on their schedule after the final international break of the season, Joe Edwards’ boys will have set their sights on going into the summer full of confidence, and…
Blues set to add attacking Academy duo
Last summer, Premier League clubs agreed to bring forward their academy scholarship decisions from March to December so as to allow those players being released sufficient time to make alternative plans for the next steps in their careers. Consequently, those same clubs now have considerably more time to focus their efforts on supplementing their home-grown intake with the best players from elsewhere. Chelsea have long since been proponents of doing…
