Chelsea Football Club have taken a lot of stick for their transfer policy over the years and quite rightly in a lot of cases but right now i think the club are getting it very right when it comes to the transfer policy. Obviously we have seen some quite brilliant signings come in, Juan Mata, Oscar, Eden Hazard, Cesar Azpilicueta ect... but it is the other side of the transfer dealings that is most interesting me.
Chelsea are clearly looking to build for the future and to try and acquire the best young talent there is and do that on a tighter budget, something that is obviously not very easy to do. As we have seen at Chelsea it is very hard to break into the first team as a younger player unless you are exceptionally talented like Hazard or Oscar.
What Chelsea are doing to get around this is to buy up young players earlier and allow them to play away from Chelsea to continue their development with us safe in the knowledge that they are our players. The best examples of this are Thibaut Courtois being an excellent example of that having been signed for a fee of about £7m is now regarded as one of the best young keepers in world football and playing very well at Athletico Madrid, when the time is right he will come to Chelsea with great experience and ready to step in.
Kevin De Bruyne is again another example of this, also having been signed up for around £7m he was allowed to carry on for the rest of the season at Genk before moving to Werder Bremen where he is earning great reviews and developing into a top player, De Bruyne is a big talent but the chances he would have had at Chelsea this season would probably have not been enough for him to develop as needed.
This is what should have happened with Lukaku, signed for a bigger fee and allowed to stay with the first team Lukaku is an example of why the club are right to make this moves for the highly talented youngsters, he is now doing well on loan and will continue to develop.
Other players treading this path is Kennith Omeru currently with Den Haag, Ulises Davila currently in Spain with Sabadell, Wallace currently still with Fluminese but likely to be elsewhere next season all with varying degrees of success of course and if rumors are to be believed Serbian youngster Lazar Markovic will be joining the ranks of young talent owned by Chelsea playing in Europe.
All of this is of course in addition to the many young talents we have from our academy out on loan too and the youthful side of Chelsea could be coming prominence very very soon.
This is an approach that i fully applaud Chelsea for, of course they will not get it right every time but it is a policy that be bearing some very talented fruit for the Chelsea first team in the near future.
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