As we hit the time of year where many clubs are deciding upon scholarship offers for their 2014-15 intake of Under-18 footballers, it might be considered a quieter one than usual for Chelsea, where many of those moving into Adi Viveash’s group next term have long since been offered terms. However, that’s not to say that the staff at Cobham are resting on their laurels and where opportunities exist, they…
Chelsea’s Under -18s suffered a rare defeat on Saturday morning as they succumbed to a much superior West Ham side 2-0 away from home.. Early first half goals from Kieran Bywater and Jordan Brown did the damage on a bog of a pitch but despite the conditions, Chelsea never got going and struggled to play their game, perhaps playing as poorly as they have this season. Adi Viveash’s selection was…
For the 25th consecutive week of the 2013-14 club football season, at least one Chelsea loan player scored for his temporary club. Sure, superstition typically suggests not to talk about the streak whilst it’s ongoing, but it hasn’t done it any damage thus far and with strikes from Patrick Bamford, Christian Atsu and Patrick van Aanholt this weekend, it’s also in rude health. Headliners We begin with Bamford, who has…
Another lengthy FA Youth Cup run beckons for Chelsea’s youngsters this season as the latest crop booked themselves into Round Five courtesy of a 3-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday at Aldershot’s Electrical Services Stadium. Seventeen year-old forward Isaiah Brown got the Blues off and running with the opener after just two minutes; a goal which set the stage for a display of complete and utter dominance from the home team….
In the absence of any of the usual faces from the scoresheet this week, it fell to Slovakian Under-21 international Milan Lalkovic to keep the unbroken sequence of at least one Chelsea youngster scoring whilst away on loan this season alive. We begin the latest Loan Report with the Walsall forward. Headliners The past month or so has undoubtedly been Lalkovic’s most productive spell of the campaign to date, with…
It won’t be remembered as a classic youth team affair but Chelsea’s Under-18s got their 2014 off to a winning start on Saturday morning with a 2-1 victory over Norwich City at Cobham. In a fractious affair in which both sides exhibited all the signs of rustiness borne of three weeks away from the pitch, Dominic Solanke struck twice – his seventh and eight goals in his last three outings…
Chelsea booked their place in the last eight of the first ever Barclays Premier League Under-21 Cup on Monday evening with a well-deserved 2-1 victory over West Ham United. Isaiah Brown gave them the lead early on and whilst Mitchell Beeney was the unfortunate victim of a freak own goal, Nathan Aké restored a lead which Dermot Drummy’s charges were never to give up. They might have added considerably more…
The first Loan Report of 2014 begins in familiar form as Patrick Bamford continued the run of a Chelsea loanee scoring in every week of the season to date, but as we enter a month of transfer activity, the prolific hitman is amongst the many who are about to embark upon new challenges. Headliners Bamford’s seventeenth and final goal for Milton Keynes Dons came in the FA Cup away to…
The latest arrangement in the affiliation between Chelsea and Vitesse Arnhem has this afternoon taken Bertrand Traore to the Gelderlanders on loan until the end of the season, with Gael Kakuta and Sam Hutchinson returning from their stays overseas. We know pretty much what this means for the trio as far as Chelsea are concerned – Traore gains experience and exposure for potential future first team involvement, Hutchinson will likely…
With January approaching, Chelsea’s relentless pursuit of flooding the football world with their own talent on loan is bound to pick up again. With over 20 players already out and about, it’s not easy to come up with a shortlist of those who may join them, but here’s five to keep an eye on as we get stuck into the transfer market once more. Nathan Aké After something of a…