DBasia.news – Chelsea deserve the title as the team smart in finding talented young players in the transfer market. Unfortunately, The Blues sometimes failed to enhance the quality of the player.
The shortcoming becomes the boomerang for Chelsea. More often than not, the player who didn’t play well in The Blues could be better in the new club.
Let’s say Kevin De Bruyne. Bought from his average club KRC Genk with a £7,2M price tag. But De Bruyne got loaned to some clubs.
Chelsea made a wrong decision by releasing the Belgium national team player to Vfl Wolfsburg. After that, De Bruyne became one of the best-attacking midfielders but now owned by the rival, Manchester City.
The same thing happened to Mohamed Salah. Repeating the same mistake, Chelsea are now facing Salah as the powerful opponent.
The Egypt national team player went to Liverpool after left his previous club purchased him from Chelsea, AS Roma. Moreover, Salah proved The Blues took the wrong decision after becoming the 2017-2018 Premier League best player.
Lesson learned Chelsea rearrange the strategy in the transfer market. They still sell the young players, but The Blues inserted the buy-back option in the agreement. Hopefully, when the player performed well, Chelsea still have the chance to bring home the players.
Who are the players could be bought by Chelsea? Here are three of them:
Nathan Ake
Nathan Ake arrived in Chelsea as the talented young player from Feyenoord in 2011. Ake just spent one season with the junior team and joined the main squad in 2012.
Ake scored his debut in the Premier League when he was still 17. At the end of the season, he was also chosen as The Blues’ best young player.
However, Ake frailed to the next step. He couldn’t qualify for the main squad and Chelsea decided to loan him to Reading and Watford in 2015.
In July 2017, Ake’s performance made Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe interested in him. Cherries bought the player with a £22,88M price tag. In the transfer, Chelsea inserted the buy-back clause with an unknown price.
Bertrand Traore
Bertrand Traore is one of many players found by Chelsea’s talent scout. Traore came to Stamford Bridge in 2013. At that time, Chelsea competed with Manchester United to hunt his signature.
Chelsea sent Traore to the main squad in the 2015-2016 season. In the Premier League, the player scored 2 goals in 10 matches. But in the next year, Traore loaned to Ajax Amsterdam for a season.
Traore’s performance in Ajax made some Europe teams interested. However, Olympique Lyon who came with 10 million euro offer succeeded to win the hunt. Just like Ake, Chelsea also inserted the buy-back clause in Traore’s contract.
Since leaving Ligue 1, Traore performed in 30 matches. From that amount, the 22-year-old player scored 14 goals until now. Traore could be the option from Alvaro Morata’s dullness.
Nathaniel Chalobah
Nathaniel Chalobah spent 5 years in the Chelsea academy before loaned to Watford in 2012-2013. He spent 6 months in the Nottingham Forest, Middlesborough, Burnley, and Reading during the next 2 years.
In 2015-2016 season, Chalobah joined Napoli. In Naples, the player just have 5 matches. One season later, Antonio Conte brought him back.
But in 2017, his former club Watford sent the 6,3 million euro offering. The Blues accepted the offer gladly and gave the buy-back clause.
Interestingly, during the loan period to Napoli, Maurizio Sarri was the architect of Il Partenopei. Perhaps, the 23-year-old player would be reunited with Sarri at Stamford Bridge.