they have also harvested those young players wages and a loan fee too boot. all in all it only takes a few errors to knock it on its head too.
But i do feel such a system requires a technical director and consistent strategy to do as they changed first team coach 27 times of something.
I do have to wonder what these yougn lads think or if they just get offered way more wages or somthing as the useless f'r they just sent to AC. van Ginkel. 21, signed by chelsea last summer for 8mil... kind of like alberto or ilori, never gets much of a sniff due to injury then out of 25man squad and dumped to AC.
they have 16 players out across europe as of today.
Christian Atsu
Ryan Bertrand
Thorgan Hazard
Gael Kakuta
Tomas Kalas
Milan Lalkovic
Marko Marin
Josh McEachran
Victor Moses
Kenneth Omeruo
Mario Pasalic
Stipe Perica
Lucas Piazon
Oriol Romeu
John Swift
Bertrand Traore
Wallace
vitesse benefit to the tune of 3 players, many are in germany and some of the more english names are frankly going nowhere in lower league.
Itsa big big list but little that i can see that would ever play for chelsea. kalas maybe.
Why on earth would a young player jump at chelsea's deal and then spend the next 3/4 year hawking round europe til you are finally sold.
I wonder how many of chelsea's players in last 3/4 years ended up in a better palce than they started out really?
I don't know.
I looked back to 2012/13 and found on wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012–13_Chelsea_F.C._season
in 2012/13 you see the same kind of nams as going out on loan today. perhaps a few have gone up to a better club loan but the only guy i can see is Courtois... like lukaku really didn't join chelsea to end up at everton... no disrespect but he didn't he walso studied his options this summer and wanted CL but no-one came calling.
In short i reckon ok if you get past vitesse and then get a better loan then you prob get a good footballing education and move on but f me... noyl go the Chelsea to be first team... there are plenty of opportunities to play CL without this route.
I'd love to see the long term impact on player careers... very hard to assess really.