Loans for Clifford, Kane and Bamford

Today has seen the departure of 2 more young blues on loan moves. Both will be looking to emulate the success that both Josh McEachran and Nathanial Chalobah are having in the lower leagues of English football. 

Connor Clifford is now embarking on his fifth loan spell having had previous spells and Plymouth, Notts County, Yeovil and Portsmouth. However it has been very hard for Connor since showing such promise in Chelsea's 2010 FA Youth Cup triumph. In all those loan spells he has only managed to accumulate 25 appearances and has not been able yet to cement a regular starting place. He will hope to put that right with this new loan spell at Crawley Town, this current loan spell taking him up to the 5th January 2013. It will take something to get him on the radar of the Chelsea first team and it may be now a case of finding a club for him elsewhere for the future as at 21 years of age he needs to be have been playing more regular football and that has not happened for him. Here is a look at Connor Clifford at his best at Chelsea.

A player that is going on his first loan spell is Todd Kane. Kane has impressed at Chelsea's U18's and U21's levels and the time was most certainly right for him to go on loan. His first spell is at league one club Preston. Kane is a combative right back who is not afraid to get forward and has a leathal shot on him too, regular viewers of Chelsea's academy football will have seen some spectacular long distance goals from him as you can see in my video below. He is not afraid to get stuck in and the physical nature of league one football will not phase him. A route similar to that of Ryan Bertrand will be his goal, to step up a level with every loan move so we hope Todd will do well at Preston.

Lastly we have another first loan move for Patrick Bamford. Bamford is pretty new at Chelsea having only joined in January of 2012, since then he has been knocking the goals in at Reserve/U21 level with 9 goals since joining. Bamford will be joining MK Dons who are also playing league one football. League football is not new for him however as he did make 2 senior appearances for Nottingham Forest before joining Chelsea. Patrick Bamford is a striker with a keen eye for goal but with also very good ability on the ball which has been evident on the few times he has been deployed on the wing for our Reserves side.

Good luck to all 3 boys on their loan moves and a keen eye will kept on them while they are away from the club.