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Loans are really poor development tools. In truth they're more often used to put a player in the shop window than actually getting them ready for first team football. Mourinho is a good enough manager and Chelsea have a strong enough squad to take risks by developing players in the first team. A cowardice in this regard has plagued Chelsea managers since Ancelotti, and I can only assume that it comes from pressure from up high.

I think he'll be used as a box-to-box midfielder. Someone who can sit alongside Matic and use his physicality, but also burst forward and turn teams around.

I don't see who keeps him out of the Chelsea team on the right assuming Hazard is on the left. He has all the workrate and defensive nouse of Willian with more threat going forward. The biggest stumbling block would surely be his price more than anything.

He isn't far off Cahill already. Many would prefer him to start for England over him.

Maybe Mourinho is annoyed that he's going to the U21 Euros.

I doubt there will be any onus on Bamford. He'll probably continue to be the fourth choice striker in the group. I expect the starting line up to look like this based on what Southgate has done so far: Butland Jenkinson Stones Gibson Garbutt JWP Carroll Hughes Redmond Kane Berahino

It doesn't work like that. Eligibility is based on your date of birth, not your age. There will be players at the U21 Euros that are 23 for example. Brown won the U17 Euros last season so he's in the U18 bracket this season, just like 18 year old's Armstrong and Onomah.

I bit undeservedly to be fair. He's a good prospect but no way has he shown more this year that someone like Reed, or even Baker and Swift.

I think he will surprise a few people. He doesn't sniff out goals or poach the way Solanke or Abraham do, but his passing, vision, technique and all round maturity are well ahead of those two. It's not a coincidence that he was the one that made the step up to U19 football with England when the other two didn't.

Carrick is hardly a squad player, he's probably the best holding midfielder in the league. The win ratio with and without him for United is ridiculous.

He would be crazy to accept without guarantees about his role with the first team.

27 passes, 100% pass completion, 3 interceptions, 1 tackle, 1 block. Not sure what more people were expecting from a 19 year old on his début put in there to sit with Mikel.

Just scored his 40th goal of the season.

I doubt your average Spaniard reads The Sun.

I'd say he's been one of our worst. He's passed the ball to the opposition half a dozen times.

Then there's too much overlap with younger age-groups, plus we'd be losing development opportunities for the slightly older players. I don't see why we'd want to create a problems in order to solve a non-existent one. It really doesn't matter that 22 and 23 year olds are playing in a tournament called an U21 tournament. It's a non-issue.

It's not like it's only the British that are hyping Kane. Just come off a Braca forum where they're creaming over him.

It would be a lot more ridiculous if players that are eligible at the beginning of a qualification campaign suddenly become ineligible half way through. And if the fact that "most of them will never earn a full cap for England" makes a difference then we might as well scrap youth football all together.

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This. They were both blatant stamps.

If that's proof that he's right not to use other players, then it's also proof that he's not up to the job. Because a second string Chelsea side should be able to put Bradford to the sword no problem. The idea that Mourinho's failures are proof that you shouldn't use youth is absurd.

Back into the England U21 squad.

He isn't going to develop in the Championship. It's either time to slowly blood him into the first team, or sell him.

Probably not now that Chelsea has ruined his development, no. At 17 he slotted into the Chelsea team fine though.