Jamal Blackman

[Champagneblade]

It's a sad reflection on the loan policy teams like Chelsea have that he's only managed 129 career appearances over 10 years after turning pro. If he'd have come through at one of the smaller London clubs there's a reasonable expectation he could have tripled that as a number one goalkeeper over a decade.

At least that will end now to an extent.

They will still be hoarding going players tl a point but the days of retaining 21-26 year olds like some sort of cash mule look to be done at least.

 

[coaxingstar71]

Lewis Baker's career. 8 years at Chelsea, zero league apps, a handful of cup appearances and 8 loans before joining Stoke. I don't see what the benefit is for Chelsea or the player.

 

[mancunianblade]

Lewis Baker's career. 8 years at Chelsea, zero league apps, a handful of cup appearances and 8 loans before joining Stoke. I don't see what the benefit is for Chelsea or the player.

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it’s served Chelsea very well and will continue to do so until it’s finally outlawed by the football authorities

 

[JackSUFC]

Lewis Baker's career. 8 years at Chelsea, zero league apps, a handful of cup appearances and 8 loans before joining Stoke. I don't see what the benefit is for Chelsea or the player.

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Standard case of Chelsea’s ‘football farming’ policy.

Sign loads of players on long-terms contracts and loan them out for X amount of years in the hope they increase in value to be sold on. Think they had over 40 players out on loan the other year.

A lot of them end up going for nowt in the end, like Baker and Blackman. The best part of their careers have been wasted but I doubt they’ll care being sat on £30k+ a week for that long.

Pretty sure Ethan Ampadu signed a new contract last summer despite never being good enough to break into their first team.

I can only think of Mason Mount who’s managed to break through and is still there. They even sacked off Kevin De Bruyne and Mo Salah a few years back which looks outrageous now.

 

[LewishamBlade]

Standard case of Chelsea’s ‘football farming’ policy.

Sign loads of players on long-terms contracts and loan them out for X amount of years in the hope they increase in value to be sold on. Think they had over 40 players out on loan the other year.

A lot of them end up going for nowt in the end, like Baker and Blackman. The best part of their careers have been wasted but I doubt they’ll care being sat on £30k+ a week for that long.

Pretty sure Ethan Ampadu signed a new contract last summer despite never being good enough to break into their first team.

I can only think of Mason Mount who’s managed to break through and is still there. They even sacked off Kevin De Bruyne and Mo Salah a few years back which looks outrageous now.

Definitely agree re: years gone by. But there's Reece James too. This season Hudson-Odoi & Trevoh Chalobah have been pretty well utilized too. I suspect Conor Gallagher will be next year. I think they're actually started to give their younger players a chance now and it's refreshing.

 

[TCsLoveChild]

Jamal Blackman is not a Premier League quality keeper thats why he hasn't played in it since he started his career at Chelsea 9 years agoView attachment 103755

Probably because he hasn’t scored a single goal in all those games .UTB

 

[JackSUFC]

Definitely agree re: years gone by. But there's Reece James too. This season Hudson-Odoi & Trevoh Chalobah have been pretty well utilized too. I suspect Conor Gallagher will be next year. I think they're actually started to give their younger players a chance now and it's refreshing.

Yeah good shout, completely bypassed them all when I was typing that out.

The need for instant success and high turnover of managers there hasn’t been kind to their youngsters historically but the transfer ban and Lampard having a season in charge definitely helped break the mould.

 

[Yogi]

Standard case of Chelsea’s ‘football farming’ policy.

Sign loads of players on long-terms contracts and loan them out for X amount of years in the hope they increase in value to be sold on. Think they had over 40 players out on loan the other year.

A lot of them end up going for nowt in the end, like Baker and Blackman. The best part of their careers have been wasted but I doubt they’ll care being sat on £30k+ a week for that long.

Pretty sure Ethan Ampadu signed a new contract last summer despite never being good enough to break into their first team.

I can only think of Mason Mount who’s managed to break through and is still there. They even sacked off Kevin De Bruyne and Mo Salah a few years back which looks outrageous now.

They also almost universally make a profit off those players in terms of the loan fees paid for them during their time at Chelsea. That makes any transfer fee paid at the end of it a bonus.

 

[coaxingstar71]

it’s served Chelsea very well and will continue to do so until it’s finally outlawed by the football authorities

Sign loads of players on long-terms contracts and loan them out for X amount of years in the hope they increase in value to be sold on. Think they had over 40 players out on loan the other year.

A lot of them end up going for nowt in the end, like Baker and Blackman. The best part of their careers have been wasted but I doubt they’ll care being sat on £30k+ a week for that long.

Pretty sure Ethan Ampadu signed a new contract last summer despite never being good enough to break into their first team.

I can only think of Mason Mount who’s managed to break through and is still there.

There's also been Abraham, Tomori and Loftus-Cheek.

Loftus-Cheek is 26 now and he's only made just over 100 league appearances, 54 of which were on loan. I actually can't think of any of their academy players going for 'big' money. They all just seem to eventually run down their contracts and leave for free.

I also don't get why the players would be happy, although they obviously can't be that unhappy or they'd ask to leave. When you see players interviewed and I've seen loads of 'undr the cosh' ones, one of the main things that comes across is that players just want to be playing, regardless of how much money they're getting.

 

[mancunianblade]

If a club has money, then Chelseas model is the model to follow. it should be outlawed but it isnt

Premier League Club Netspend 5 Season - Transfer League

This Transfer League Table is a record of the amount of money spent in transfer fees by English Premier League Football Clubs over the last five seasons. The table also shows new investment which club owners have made available to their

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Chelsea have a net spend of £132m over 5 years according to the link thats less than the following

Man City
Man Utd
Everton
Arsenal
Brighton
West ham
Wolves
Aston Villa

 

[Bennyand the Blades]

Could come in handy though when the FA change it to 11 subs........

 

[Cappy]

Some people, like me, care. Don’t shoot me

 

[1973Blade]

Some people, like me, care. Don’t shoot me

He's only 30, thought he did well for us.

 

[Yogi]

Some people, like me, care. Don’t shoot me

Had a big injury after leaving us didn’t he? I’d imagine that’s what has impacted his career as whilst he wasn’t amazing with us he was steady and I’d have backed him to have a career at a decent level league 1/ Championship

 

[Harry's Game]

Had a big injury after leaving us didn’t he? I’d imagine that’s what has impacted his career as whilst he wasn’t amazing with us he was steady and I’d have backed him to have a career at a decent level league 1/ Championship

Yeah he broke his leg whilst on loan at Leeds and apparently hasn’t looked The same player since.

I too thought he did well for us, was probably better than Simon Moore but a long way below Henderson of course.

 

[1889]

Some people, like me, care. Don’t shoot me

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[moody1889]

Some people, like me, care. Don’t shoot me

Great team and cause to play for.

 

[SE1Blade]

Great team and cause to play for.

Played against them over the past few seasons. An excellent way of sharing grief. Especially for men, who don’t always have somewhere to turn and just try and stay strong for their partner.

It’s a very emotional game. The minutes silence before the match is more emotional than any other I’ve ever done. All the partners and families come on to share the moment. It is special, and just to play the game feels like you’re helping.
We donate all our subs to their fundraising efforts.

 

[Carlton Blade]

There's a 22 year old lad, currently on loan from Inter to Empoli.

His name is Sebastiano Esposito. This is his 7th (Seventh) loan

 

[s20Blade]

Was long shots as his weakness if I remember correctly.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Sorry lads I thought he was fucking wank for us. Never known a giant fail with low shots.

 

[Cappy]

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

Going (back) up in the world

Jamal Blackman: Shrewsbury Town sign goalkeeper on short-term deal

Shrewsbury Town sign goalkeeper Jamal Blackman on a short-term contract.

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[loyalblade95]

Curious, was Jamal Blackman the last goalkeeper we had who got a clean sheet on his debut (a 1-0 win Vs Brentford), pretty sure Cooper, Henderson, Wes, Olson, Davies, Ramsdale (in his second spell technically) and Grbic all conceded goals in their first games.

Grbic never kept a clean sheet for us either, all of the others mentioned above kept clean sheets for us.

 

[Deleted member 23679]

Another fun stat.

Jamal Blackman was the last and only player to be led out on to the pitch for his debut, dutifully escorted by Zipwire jnr who was mascot that day…….

 

[Bladesman101]

He also beat the pigs 4-2 so will always be a legend