Morning Blues: Are Chelsea Sending Their Youngsters to the Wrong Clubs?
Today’s Morning Blues is a Loan Watch special, rating how Chelsea’s loan army has started the 2026/27 season.
We look at the big-money loans: Garnacho’s struggle for minutes at Aston Villa and what it means for his obligation to buy, Disasi playing regularly at Palace, and Badiashile’s quiet start at Napoli. He also covers Strasbourg, where Jørgensen, Antwi and Essugo are all getting European football.
There’s praise for the academy graduates thriving in the EFL, led by 17-year-old Ryan Kavuma-McQueen at Portsmouth. There are also real concerns over Jesse Derry at Sporting, Mamadou Sarr at…
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