On 14/05/2019 at 22:03, Sexyfootball said:

Whoever edits the CFC wikipedia pages certainly seems to think so ... Todd Kane and Angban too ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_Chelsea_F.C._season

Apparently so... strange that someone keeps changing it often, seen a lot of names pn there recently just for them to disappear the next day

We should sell all the old loan army. It's time we give these guys a new lease on life. They will never make it at Chelsea FC

Loaned again, this time to Rio Ave from Portugal, and getting a one year extension of his contract. Also a loan for fellow perennial loanee Danilo Pantic, according to the club's website.

Are there no buyers for these players, or is there a clear (although not to me) policy behind this?

Edited September 3, 20196 yr by Valerie

3 hours ago, Valerie said:

Are there no buyers for these players, or is there a clear (although not to me) policy behind this?

Suspect we are asking too much for them ... everything sells at the right price ...

3 hours ago, Valerie said:

Are there no buyers for these players, or is there a clear (although not to me) policy behind this?

I think we view it as a means of supplementing our income. 

We paid relatively small transfer fees for a lot of the players on loan. If the entirety of their wages is being paid by the loaning clubs then whatever loan fees we get for them very quickly turn into profit. I would imagine someone like Piazon has repaid his £5m transfer fee twice over (if not more) by this point and it's more money than we'd make from a permanent sale. 

2 hours ago, ForeverCarefree said:

I think we view it as a means of supplementing our income. 

We paid relatively small transfer fees for a lot of the players on loan. If the entirety of their wages is being paid by the loaning clubs then whatever loan fees we get for them very quickly turn into profit. I would imagine someone like Piazon has repaid his £5m transfer fee twice over (if not more) by this point and it's more money than we'd make from a permanent sale. 

That makes sense. If I were a player getting loaned year after year to different clubs, it would drive me crazy. Still, it's a well-paid living, I suppose.

I always assumed these players stuck around out of the belief that if they waited long enough we’d eventually appoint a manager that actually rated them. A bit like how Conte (temporarily) made Victor Moses into a proper first team player.

My thought was always the loan army had something to do with FFP... if we stockpile players we can sell off when we need to we can go all in some year in the transfer market. As long as the loan army holds value, could we not sell it off one year to maintain a net zero on a larger transfer?

Please just sell this guy. At this rate he'll be a 30yr old who's been with us the longest yet never to have played a role in the team.

Our longest serving player of 9 years Sir Lucas Piazon has finally moved on to another club. His contribution of missing a penalty against Villa which would made the end scoreline 9-0, making a new record, will not be forgotten.

Farewell to a legend.

5 minutes ago, sonic90 said:

Our longest serving player of 9 years Sir Lucas Piazon has finally moved on to another club. His contribution of missing a penalty against Villa which would made the end scoreline 9-0, making a new record, will not be forgotten.

Farewell to a legend.

Another player never reaching his full potential due to injuries etc...

3 hours ago, sonic90 said:

Our longest serving player of 9 years Sir Lucas Piazon has finally moved on to another club. His contribution of missing a penalty against Villa which would made the end scoreline 9-0, making a new record, will not be forgotten.

Farewell to a legend.

Aah the old SLP. Farewell son, farewell.