HMN, ITS LIKE AN EPISTLE BUT WORTH READING. JUST TAKE THE PAIN. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Chelsea may have a better chance of winning the Dutch title this season than the Premier League. Or at least seven of the London clubs players will. Patrick van Aanholt, Gael Kakuta, Lucas Piazon, Cristián Cuevas, Sam Hutchinson, Christian Atsu and Bertrand Traoré are representing Dutch Eredivisie side Vitesse Arnhem in the Netherlands this season rather than attempting to prove their worth to Jose Mourinho on the Kings Road. Agreed, If you want to toughen players up, make them battle-hardened, there is no better way than by playing games elsewhere rather than staying in the reserve ranks. But for a club like Chelsea to have 30 players on loan still seems utterly staggering from both the reserve and the academy. Every club does it, and understandably so. But I Adesope wonder who are the players presently at Chelseas reserve team? Jeremiah 29:11 says For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Seems that Bible verse is for Chelsea loanees Take a critical look: •Thibaut Courtois - GK •Matej Delač - GK •Ryan Bertrand - DF •Patrick van Aanholt - DF •Kurt Zouma - DF •Gaël Kakuta - DF •Samuel Hutchinson - DF •Wallace- DF •Nathaniel Chalobah - DF •Kenneth Omeruo - DF •Todd Kane - DF •Oriol Romeu - MF •Josh McEachran - MF •Marko Marin - MF •Bertrand Traoré - MF •Cristián Cuevas - MF •Ulises Dávila - MF •Thorgan Hazard - MF •Christian Atsu - MF •George Saville - MF •Lamisha Musonda •Billy Clifford - MF •Lucas Piazón - FW •Victor Moses - FW •Romelu Lukaku - FW •Milan Lalkovič - FW •Patrick Bamford - FW •Jhon Pírez - FW •Stipe Perica - FW •Joao Rodríguez - FW Wow!!!! How would this XI fare in the Premier League? (4-2-3-1): Thibaut Courtois; Patrick Vanholt, Nathaniel Chabolah, Kenneth Omeruo, Wallace, Oriel Romeu, Bertrand Traore, Thorgan Hazard, Lucas Piazon, Victor Moses; Romelu Lukaku. (COACHED BY ME ADESOPE. Lol) Assuming no injuries and ignoring the real-world inevitability of fatigue, it is easy to imagine such a lineup doing reasonably well and I am sure the aforementioned side would finish somewhere around 12th in the Premier League (it surely has the individual talent, especially in attack, to beat most of the league’s less-star studded squads on a given day, but perhaps lacks the physicality in defence to threaten the top 10 over a full season), That is a side created entirely from Chelsea players currently out on loan at clubs around Europe and thus provokes meaningful questions. Is the stockpiling of such talent really good for the players (many of whom see their careers lose momentum before their eyes), the club or the game as a whole? Somehow it does not feel morally or ethically correct when clubs are allowed to deploy players from other clubs to fuel their success. Not that Chelsea will care too much. If the Arnhem seven succeed to any sort of level, they will be brought back to Chelsea having enhanced their value. More likely, they will be sold on for greater than their purchase price. This is the way of modern day football. It is a legal abuse of the loan system where clubs who complain about agents actually become agents themselves in handling and moving on players who have no realistic chance of playing for them (Me just dey pity some playas career). It is comparable to fattening livestock for slaughter, Talented youngsters who cant get a game in the Premier League clubs first team or reserves are coming to Chelsea, getting some real value added, then being sold on at benefit to [the parent] clubs. According to Chelseas technical director Michael Emenalo to chelseafc, The loan process at Chelsea has become very professional and a good deal of thought has gone into it, We dont send players out because we are trying to recover some money, we send them because we want them to play and develop and we want to monitor them..... Hmn, I was reminiscing about Emenalos statement and had to go for a nap this evening and I woke up with a big question, What chance do the Arnhem seven have when Mourinho is hellbent on working with a squad of only 22? (Are you bored yet?) Chelsea are not the sole offenders of apparently signing players with little or no prospect of seeing the light of day in the clubs first team. Manchester City have over 80 players on their books with Chelsea overseeing 75 and Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur on 74. A certain club called Watford exploited a loophole in the system to almost reached the Premier League last season with 14 loan players before losing in the Championship play-off final to Crystal Palace. Understandably, Watford is owned by 73 year-old Giampaolo Pozzo who signed 10 players from another club he own in Italy;Udinese and Granada, the club he own in Spain. My point is Clubs like Chelsea should be made to keep players in their 25-man squad if they sign them from abroad while the loan system should be restricted to home-grown players under the age of 23, or players who have players who turned out in less than 40 Premier League games For example, I still remember the hype on Gaël Kakuta who played for the youth setup between 2007-09 and since 2009 he had been loaned to 4 different club, though Chelsea had to pay nearly £3m in hush money to Lens to ward off the transfer ban imposed by UEFA in order to sign Kakuta. What a nonsense that one was (Make that guy go see Sat Guru Mahraj Ji). So many of them: Samuel Hutchinson is another who played for the youth team for 8 years and was dubbed the new John Terry. After arguing so much about if Chelsea will recall Thibaut Courtois most especially on facebook pages, I came to my senses and I asked myself Why leave Europes best young goalkeeper at Atletico Madrid - where he has received admiring glances from Barcelona - when Petr Cechs back-ups are simply not good enough? Some of them(loaned players) may not make it. Some are youth products still feeling their way. Some will definitely be better for their time playing elsewhere. And some may prove to have been wildly poor signings. Though, Producing your own players remains the cheapest way to build a squad, however, which is why Chelsea continue to snap up the best young talent they can find. And again, the format of the leagues in England isnt helping. There is this format employed in Spanish league. Almost every top team in the La Liga has their team B and/or team C playing in the Segunda División or Segunda División B(All still have their reserve team intact) and the can afford to let different teams play in different division. There is Barcelona B, Real Madrid Castilla (Real Madrid B) and even in the Segunda División B, There is Celta B, Real Madrid C, Sporting Gijón C and many more! Why isnt that applicable in the English League? The Chelsea loaned throjans if peradventure plays in the Championship as a Chelsea B will make those guy adapt to english football, e.g KDB that never get used to english football would have learn. It will also definitely help club monitor their players by themselves, since the Team B will also be playing in a League format and players will graduate to next high phase (Its even different from the Reserve team) Juan Mata was a product of Real Madrid B, Same with this Barcelona Left-Full back Jordi Alba who was once a graduate of Valencia B, Same with Diego Lopez of Real Madrid who was with Real Madrid B, Same with this WestHam Goalie who denied chelsea 3 points Adrián San Migue who was a graduate of Real Betis B. BUT WHY HAVE SO MANY TALENTS KNOWING FULLY WELL 70% OF THEM DUE TO THEIR AGES MIGHT NOT GET TO PLAY AT THE BIGGEST STAGE FOR CHELSEA? I just hope say these players dey read Isaiah 40:31 But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.... (I take God beg una, na fire me, this loan of a thing just dey pepper my body ni...Plzzzzz oooo***TakingCover***)
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 01:48:33 +0000
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