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Chelsea have today announced Oriol Romeu will spend a second season away from Stamford Bridge after he agrees to join Stuttgart on loan for next season.

A statement on chelseafc.com read: 'Oriol Romeu has joined Stuttgart on a season-long loan. The midfielder, 22, who recently signed a three-year contract at Stamford Bridge, heads to the German top flight.

Romeu last month put pen to paper on a new three-year deal, leading Chelsea fans to believe he would form part of Mourinho's plans for the coming campaign, possibly at the expense of John Obi Mikel.

The Spaniard moved to Stamford Bridge in the summer of 2011 from Barcelona, and has so far made 33 Chelsea appearances. He spent last season on loan at Valencia.

Romeu has not played a competitive game for Chelsea since December 2012 although he did play 70 minutes in Chelsea's 5-0 win over Wycombe Wanderers earlier in pre-season.

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Wasn't the reason he signed a contract for us to stop Barcelona getting him back in that weird signing of him?

He was rumoured to have a buy back clause of £5.5M but I think they expire after time rather than when a new contract is signed? Maybe I'm wrong though, in which case, good business.

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Weird one. I have no idea what we're trying to do with him.

He signs a new deal, say's he's looking forward to playing and explaining how he feels like he's 'home' and then boom, he's at Stuttgart.

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Romeu isn't a Chelsea Youth.

I know he wasn't, but still, it doesn't send out a good message to our youth players at all.

We bought him when he was 19, around the same age most of our most promising youth players are right now, what does this tell them? That they're going to be loaned out for 2-3 seasons in a row and then eventually sold for a large fee?

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I know he wasn't, but still, it doesn't send out a good message to our youth players at all.

We bought him when he was 19, around the same age most of our most promising youth players are right now, what does this tell them? That they're going to be loaned out for 2-3 seasons in a row and then eventually sold for a large fee?

The thing that restricted Romeu's chances were his unfortunate injuries.

If we're talking about young loan players coming back I could give you a great example in Courtois - who was remarkable in his loan spell and is now challenging for the number 1 spot.

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The thing that restricted Romeu's chances were his unfortunate injuries.

If we're talking about young loan players coming back I could give you a great example in Courtois - who was remarkable in his loan spell and is now challenging for the number 1 spot.

Fair enough - but I still wanted him over Mikel in the squad.

But, how many more do we have? Courtois' loan spells were REMARKABLE, but how many others turned out like that? I don't see McEachran (i think that's how you spell it lol) or Chalobah even in the squad this season, Chalobah couldn't even get games in pre-season, and he is one of our most promising young players.

I dunno man, I just really want some youth players in our squad.

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Weird one. I have no idea what we're trying to do with him.

He signs a new deal, say's he's looking forward to playing and explaining how he feels like he's 'home' and then boom, he's at Stuttgart.

Had our non-HG quota been fine, I don't think Romeu would have gone out on loan but because the quota isn't fine, we needed to find a way to solve the issue and one of it was obviously to loan Romeu out. Of course, it could have been others like Van Ginkel but perhaps Mourinho believes he would be more useful to the team at this point.

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This is a smart move.

He needs playing time after the injury. This move allows him time to settle back in out of the media spotlight.

And as others have said - if he has a good season, we have a ready made player for next season.

If he struggles post injury - then we have options...

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