Mancienne The Latest Loan?
Posted on August 13th, 2009 by Chelsea D
What is it with Chelsea sending players out on bloody loan?
We’ve just sent Franco Di Santo off to Blackburn til January and Scott Sinclair to Wigan, and whilst that’s irritating enough, I suppose there’s some sense to it. What I don’t get though, is why Chelsea would consider the same with Michael Mancienne yet again.
Here I was thinking we might finally start to give our youngsters more opportunities, particularly Mancienne, and yet now we’re hearing he could be going back to Wolves on loan for the season. Wolves have been desperate to get the young defender back there after his previous loan spell and rumour has it he could be available for them against West Ham on Saturday.
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think about it, we have terry carvalho ivanovic alex a. cole and bonsingwa ahead of mancienne on the depth chart; so how feasible is it that this young lad would get a start or even on honest shot at substitution. last year most of his appearences came in the dying minutes of games as if only there to please the fans.
im in a way glad he is going on loan so that he may get some good first team play and return with a better shot at landing a starting role in our defensive line.
on a side note, i dont like di santo and think chelsea should cut him loose. with sturridge now in our ranks, chelsea should seek a world class youngster who is already tried and tested. someone like aguero, pato, lucas podolski, or porto’s new import falcao.
Come on Chelsea D, loaning out players is ok and gives them valuable first team experience, albeit generally with weaker clubs.
Play in the reserves, warm the first team bench or play 1st team footy with wolves…no brainer really
At the end of the day also we still own the player and can generally recall them at short notice if necessary.
So you think playing half a dozen reserve games and training with the first team is good preparation for playing at the very top of the PL and never putting a foot wrong? Since when? We’re looking to build players who can complete at the top of world football. They won’t do that without making mistakes. Let them do that on loan in the PL. It’s how all the top teams do it (except Boro who won the Youth Cup just a few years ago and are now relegated).
Please, think about it for 5 minutes.
I for one welcome lending our younger first teamers out to fellow Premier League clubs. If we seriously want players like Di Santo and Mancienne to break through, it’s much more productive for us to send them to sides lower in the table where they will truly experience the rough and tumble of the league rather than having them stay with us, playing for ten minutes at the end of a comfortably won game without the fear of making a mistake or missing a chance. The tension between that fear and reacting to it is what proves to make the best players.
I’m especially pleased about Mancienne’s loan. The four year deal we’ve just given him proves that we have faith in his ability. Wolves will be fighting for their lives and I suspect that experience will have made him a much better player by the time he returns next summer.
Di Santo’s being at Blackburn until January is perfectly planned. He’ll return just before Drogs and Kalou disappear to the ACN, opening up a slot in our strike force next to Anelka that he and Sturridge can tussle over for a month.
The only players I have reservations about are our wingers, Stoch and Sinclair. The latter hasn’t shown anything so far to prove he can make it at the highest level. How he copes on loan at Wigan will be a marker to where he should expect to be. If Stoch were taller and stronger, I’d have more belief that he’d succeed in the PL. The Dutch league is a comfortable environment for him to develop in for now.