Patrick Bamford

[Fernando 6,585]

Not sure if he should come back next season giving that Costa will play a lot of games and this guy needs them.

Maybe a loan to a PL club?

[iseah100 5,612]

Not sure if he should come back next season giving that Costa will play a lot of games and this guy needs them.

Maybe a loan to a PL club?

If Boro come up they would be a perfect loan option.

[Reddish-Blue 2,489]

Not sure if he should come back next season giving that Costa will play a lot of games and this guy needs them.

Maybe a loan to a PL club?

You would have to find the right club...or Bamford will end up like McEachran at Swansea, Atsu at Everton...

[termninja 5,290]

That was a brilliant move for his 2nd goal. Keep it up lad! I really hope he can have a successful loan in the PL next season. I doubt Jose would risk striker position again after previous season, but Bamford is definitely here ti stay or be sold for big money later.

[Barbara 15,149]

I really like the kid. First I love smart people, so he scores thousand points with me on that alone. Then he has a killer instinct, very good technique, knows the shortcuts to the back of the net, is a good header, is football smart (general brains and football brains are two worlds apart and he has both), is English, will help our homegrown quota and can only improve. I mean, what is there not to like?

I think people can see based on my posts about our youth players that I'm very calm, patient and careful with how we handle them. A handful minutes given every 30 matches isn't developing youth or giving them chances, this is to make fans and players' families happy in my book. I think we should identify which kids really have a future here, give them the best conditions to play football - here or on loan - and when they're used to play and prove they can do something on a regular basis they should be incorporated in the first team with actual playing time.

We have a great generation coming from the ranks. I see posts like Choulo's a few pages ago saying Patrick had always had near to zero chances to make it here.... I don't get it. How can one decide something like that when the player is only 21? I think that's too early.

We have an old guard of players that will retire/leave soon and based on how we handled our business lately I don't see us splashing money right and left like we did when Roman first bought the club. The academy is to fund new players as much as it is to form new Chelsea players. The best of them will stay - the ones that prove in the pitch (no matter whose pitch) they're Chelsea material will stay. If Ryan Bertrand had chances in post-Roman Chelsea, than any kid with decent talent and effort should as well.

People talk shit about how we wasted too many talents from our academy and didn't give them the proper chances... so let me ask them one thing: enlist me five players we let go or who never got themselves out of the loan soap opera that went somewhere else and became great players. Someone like Courtois for example, that we loaned to Atletico and in a couple of years became one of the top 5 GK in the world. Where are all the mistakes done by Chelsea? One could argue that the lack of chances and stability detract a players' career and I agree to that to a certain extent. There are many examples of players that overcame many changes early in their careers (Costa being one of them), bench, few opportunities, but still proved their value.

Youth players are like religious prophecies to me, they're the real deal when the promise becomes fact. Until then it's nothing more than what could have been and a good idea. So if they don't turn anything good anywhere, they wouldn't cut it to be a Chelsea player anyway. The player will always be the main responsible for his own success. If he has discipline and puts an effort to back up his talent and it works out, it doesn't matter the system, it just does. Didn't Kane himself have many loans before having his breakout season (that he has yet to follow up with another one, btw, but fact remains it's been a great season for him). Didn't Diego do the same? Didn't Courtois make the best out of a long loan? Aren't Bamford and Traoré proving their worth in their loans?

The only cases I have problems with is when we keep the kids here like Aké (sorry if I don't think it's the same situation with Ruben yet) and detract his development by giving him nearly no minutes. Youth players shouldn't be here simply to complete our homegrown quota. Either they're ready to figure in the eventual match or they should be shipped to loan contracts. Aké should have been used more (the only case in our current squad imo). If Patrick stays with us next season, he should receive the same amount of chances Remy did this season... For strikers is easier to get minutes than midfielders, not only there are less strikers in every squad (three, at most four) and the bench guys are one injury away from getting chances. Midfielders compete with way more people, with the tactical approach and other things. I think we should give Bamfordinho a chance here next season because if he gets Remy minutes - playing most domestic cups, grabbing a few minutes (or many depending on injury) at the end of league matches, he'll continue his development just fine. But I wouldn't oppose at all to an PL loan. It's the Aké situation that can't happen again - with no one, but even less with Aké himself.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

needs a haircut desperately

[Fernando 6,585]

If Boro come up they would be a perfect loan option.

True that might be great.

This kid kinda reminds me of Gudjohnsen...

[Jase 43,479]

I have really high hopes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9_4scWEhxQ

The lad is born to score. Two very very classy and quality goals.

[Jase 43,479]

http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/9758983/bamford-double-secures-motm-award

Bamford's post-match interview with Sky. Was given the MOTM.

[Oscar 441]

Swansea needs a CF and bamford might fit the role perfectly there.

With Gomis health problems and Michu unlikely to return from loan to swansea, that might be the best team where bamford could get substantially playing time in the epl.

[Gilvorak 3,734]

Might be a World Class player on the basis of that 2nd celebration alone. I like him, really intelligent player with a clean technique.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

As much as I want to see him in our squad next season, I think a loan to PL club for one year will be good for him first. Maybe in 2016 he will be ready.

[Stats 7,138]

I like Bamford a lot but do people realistically think he is going to get a shot next season or whenever? I really doubt it. Especially under Mourinho. Lukaku had an excellent season on loan at WBA in the PL and got around 17 league goals and a lot of us was hoping he would be given a shot but he was loaned out again. This time to Everton. Yeah he said a few things that he wanted to play and so much accused Lukaku of not being a 'fighter' as he was unwilling to fight for his place but looking back it now you can understand. Remy, who is a quality striker and established in the PL can't get a game for his life and when Costa has not been performing he rarely sees any minutes so if Lukaku was here you just know what the situation would be. How do people realistically expect Bamford to make an impact here when Costa is still in his prime and looks to be our no.1 striker for a few years and Remy who is a quality striker, struggles to get on in so many matches? There have even been games where he has not made the bench.I just can't see Mourinho having faith in Bamford to play an integral part in our team and the last thing I want for him is to be marginalised here as 3rd choice striker or so and just be watching from the dugouts.

I love watching our young talent doing well out on loan but I have given up on the majority of them coming back into our team. One thing I am sure of though is that Bamford, if he is going to play in the PL will be with another team on loan. Would be quite fitting if Middlsebrough can go up.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

I like Bamford a lot but do people realistically think he is going to get a shot next season or whenever? I really doubt it. Especially under Mourinho. Lukaku had an excellent season on loan at WBA in the PL and got around 17 league goals and a lot of us was hoping he would be given a shot but he was loaned out again. This time to Everton. Yeah he said a few things that he wanted to play and so much accused Lukaku of not being a 'fighter' as he was unwilling to fight for his place but looking back it now you can understand. Remy, who is a quality striker and established in the PL can't get a game for his life and when Costa has not been performing he rarely sees any minutes so if Lukaku was here you just know what the situation would be. How do people realistically expect Bamford to make an impact here when Costa is still in his prime and looks to be our no.1 striker for a few years and Remy who is a quality striker, struggles to get on in so many matches? There have even been games where he has not made the bench.I just can't see Mourinho having faith in Bamford to play an integral part in our team and the last thing I want for him is to be marginalised here as 3rd choice striker or so and just be watching from the dugouts.

I love watching our young talent doing well out on loan but I have given up on the majority of them coming back into our team. One thing I am sure of though is that Bamford, if he is going to play in the PL will be with another team on loan. Would be quite fitting if Middlsebrough can go up.

As a 3rd striker is not impossible imo, although as I said in my post earlier, I think we need to loan him at least a year to another PL team first. Plus we 'urgently' need more English players in our team.

[Stats 7,138]

As a 3rd striker is not impossible imo, although as I said in my post earlier, I think we need to loan him at least a year to another PL team first. Plus we 'urgently' need more English players in our team.

3rd striker will be equivalent to him starting about 2 games in the whole season and getting 15 minutes every 3 games or so. No chance he makes the squad next season imo. Mourinho will want to be convinced by seeing him at another PL team first.