Patrick Bamford

[Term-X 7,891]

Wait, you're using a Lampard avatar now? Didn't you use to call him Judas, traitor etc?

Since everything has turned to shit now 'chelsea-wise', the avatar is more or less a tribute to better times, not the current man.

[Cosmin 2,484]

PLEASE, just give him a chance!

[Fernando 6,585]

Would like to give him a chance in the FA Cup.

Who cares about winning that, because if we win it we will have to play EL.

And would rather not play that.

[Jase 43,479]

Since everything has turned to shit now 'chelsea-wise', the avatar is more or less a tribute to better times, not the current man.

Changing your tune now, aren't you? You could have chosen Essien, Ballack, Drogba or even Terry but you went with a player who you called Judas/traitor?

[Jase 43,479]

Bamford on cancelling his loan deal...

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/dec/28/crystal-palace-swansea-city-premier-league-match-report

Alan Pardew had suggested post-match there would be “a conversation” with Chelsea over the forward’s immediate future though, by then, the 22-year-old had already taken matters into his own hands. “This was my last game for Palace and, if I were being honest, it has been terrible,” he said. “No one wants to sit on the bench and not play. I would have been more content if I had been given a chance and not taken it, but I haven’t started a game in the Premier League and, for a young player like me, that’s not what you need.

“It was my decision. The coaches have just found out – I have told them I am going. I think the manager already knew but, the physios and [some of the] coaching staff, I have just let them know and said bye now. The gaffer’s not actually spoken to me and I’ll go in and say goodbye but I think it will be fine. We’ll shake hands and say it didn’t work out. No hard feelings. I had to do it because, for my development, it is crucial I play games. Obviously there are a lot of things I could say that frustrated me. But I got on well with the gaffer and I like him, and it was just one of those that didn’t work out.”

Palace’s strikers have not been a regular source of goals this season with Connor Wickham’s penalty at Stoke their only reward. He is currently out injured, along with the hamstrung Dwight Gayle, while Marouane Chamakh lasted only 45 minutes against Swansea. “There were a few reasons [given for me not playing] but I kind of saw through them,” said Bamford. “I was frustrated because there weren’t many strikers scoring. Connor only scored his first goal last week.

“As a striker, it might be short-sighted of me but obviously scoring goals is a striker’s job. If you are not playing and the other strikers are not scoring and you are not getting a chance, obviously I was, like, pulling my hair out. That was a bit frustrating for me. Apart from that, the team has been doing really well so I couldn’t really complain about getting involved sometimes. I’ve learned things so I wouldn’t say it has been a waste of time, but we’ll see what happens next. I know I can fit in at this level.”

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Hmm.. I don't know what to make of that.

I mean some of us were slating Lukaku once upon a time for not sticking around to breakthrough into our team - Could the same be applicable for Bamford? To be honest though, I don't know why Pardew even wanted him. He signed Wikham for £8m ffs, after that Bamford was always going to be 3/4th choice behind Chamakh and Gayle (until they shifted him).

Still young though, send him back to Boro maybe?

[Special Juan 28,100]

Hmm.. I don't know what to make of that.

I mean some of us were slating Lukaku once upon a time for not sticking around to breakthrough into our team - Could the same be applicable for Bamford? To be honest though, I don't know why Pardew even wanted him. He signed Wikham for £8m ffs, after that Bamford was always going to be 3/4th choice behind Chamakh and Gayle (until they shifted him).

Still young though, send him back to Boro maybe?

No point in him going back to Boro one bit, Stuani, Nugent and Kike all fighting for the striker role, plus they are top of the league and playing really well. Karanka has them playing great football and the team spirit is brilliant there right now, it makes no sense him being there.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

No point in him going back to Boro one bit, Stuani, Nugent and Kike all fighting for the striker role, plus they are top of the league and playing really well. Karanka has them playing great football and the team spirit is brilliant there right now, it makes no sense him being there.

But he is looking for another striker, hot rumour of them going for Rhodes again in Jan.

http://the72.co.uk/42865/middlesbrough-boss-aitor-karanka-weighing-move-jordan-rhodes/

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Championship loan required. Or, fuck me, we could give him a go? Can't be worse than Failcao and the permanently-offside Remy.

[Barbara 15,149]

I think it's far-fetched and wishful thinking of us to expect him to stay with us. I don't see the club doing it. Hiddink, Emenalo or whoever decides things these days have been making it clear the Academy is to make profit, not to promote kids - unless they're some wonder kid. We barely use youth, no matter the manager it seems. The one that used more, used a couple of players sparsely. I completely lost hope...

[Term-X 7,891]

Changing your tune now, aren't you? You could have chosen Essien, Ballack, Drogba or even Terry but you went with a player who you called Judas/traitor?

No, it's all about the image itself.. it's a sky sports poster and I like what they did with the design.

[OhForAGreavsie 6,058]

I think it's far-fetched and wishful thinking of us to expect him to stay with us. I don't see the club doing it. Hiddink, Emenalo or whoever decides things these days have been making it clear the Academy is to make profit, not to promote kids - unless they're some wonder kid. We barely use youth, no matter the manager it seems. The one that used more, used a couple of players sparsely. I completely lost hope...

I doubt they would agree that they have been making it clear that profit is the purpose of the academy. Rather I think they'd claim that the aim remains to develop Chelsea players but that ensuring it realises a turnover from player sales helps the club to continue funding it as lavishly as it does.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Yep, he's going elsewhere.

[Barbara 15,149]

I doubt they would agree that they have been making it clear that profit is the purpose of the academy. Rather I think they'd claim that the aim remains to develop Chelsea players but that ensuring it realises a turnover from player sales helps the club to continue funding it as lavishly as it does.

if the way we've handled the kids for years now under many managers doesn't give you a clue about how it works, then I don't know what else does.

Then there's the tweet just above my post to reinforce what everybody already felt would happen, he won't be here because the manager (or whoever is behind this decision in addition to Hiddink) doesn't want him in the squad.

[LAM09 7,043]

Happy to see that he's cutting his loan short. A move to another Prem side would be ideal, but playing time is a must wherever he ends up