A policy of buying young talent and loaning it out, a la Chelsea, is taking shape…
Our global network of scouts have clearly been working tirelessly to recruit the world’s finest teenage talent.
This summer, Bobby Adekanye signed from Barcelona, Brooks Lennon from America, Allan from Internacional in Brazil and Taiwo Awoniyi from a Nigerian academy.
Whether any of these will progress and maximise their talent is not yet known, but their arrivals and the loaning out of the likes of Sheyi Ojo, Harry Wilson, Sergi Canos, Jordan Williams, Danny Ward and Lloyd Jones, to name but a few – shows a clear policy – perhaps influenced by Jordon Ibe’s success and enormous improvement at Derby County last season.
It’s a strategy Chelsea are heavily invested in – even for reasons of potential future transfer fees received – and have a farcical 31 players currently out on loan.
Talented, largely unheard of players are being acquired, settled in to life on Merseyside, before being sent away on loan to hone their skills and test their mettle.
Hopefully it’ll bear fruit.
