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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

How are Chelsea's on-loan youngsters faring - Part2

I had accessed how some of our on-loan youngsters are faring in Part 1 of this article, namely in the Dutch Eredivisie. Here is the second part of the article where we can take a look at some more on-loan players.

Milan Lalkovic

Club: Vitória Guimarães (Portuguese Liga)
Playing Position : Striker
Nationality : Slovakia
Age : 19
Apperances : 5 (All as substitutes)

Milan Lalkovic joined Chelsea in 2006 after a successful trial period at the tender age of 14 and has been part of the FA Youth cup winning team of 2009-10.Before being part of the Vitória Guimarães team this year, he has had loan spells at Doncaster Rovers and ADO Den Haag. The Slovak is a pacy and tricky striker who can also play wide as a winger or as an attacking midfielder. Seeing the huge influx of creative talent at Chelsea now, it does seem that Lalkovic will have better chances as a striker in the Chelsea set up. Lalkovic made his Portuguese league debut in the first match of the season against Portuguese giants Sporting in a 0-0 draw as a 87th minute substitute. In the second match against Porto, he was given more time to impress as he came on as a 63rd minute substitute but Vitória Guimarães went down 4-0 to a very impressive Porto side.After 5 rounds of the Portuguese league, Lalkovic has been a used substitute in all 5 matches and has been getting some much needed minutes on the pitch. Vitória Guimarães are struggling at 14th in the league, but Lalkovic is really getting some good minutes on the pitch. Lalkovic has company at Vitória Guimarães with Croatian goalkeeper Matej Delac also joining the Portuguese side on loan on a year long deal from Chelsea.Delac is yet to make a league appearance for his new club.

Thorgan Hazard
Club : SV Zulte Waregem (Belgium)
Nationality : Belgium
Playing Position : Attacking Midfielder
Age:19
Apperances : 3

The younger Hazard, Thorgan joined his brother Eden at Chelsea at the start of the season from French second division side FC Lens. His brother values him as a more technically gifted palyer than himself and if Thorgan can rise up like Eden did, we could soon have the Hazards lining up for Chelsea in the very near future. He was loaned out to SV Zulte Waregem just before the end of the transfer deadline. He made his debut for SV Zulte Waregem starting in a 1-0 victory and has started in all 3 games since his debut,completing all 90 minutes in all of them. The Belgian has certainly broken into the first team and we should be seeing some impressive performances from the younger Hazard and may very soon join his brother at Chelsea.


Kevin De Bruyne
Club : Werder Bremen (Germany)
Playing Position: Left Winger
Nationality: Belgium
Age :21

The Belgian winger's signing from Racing Genk in January 2012 started the Chelsea revolution of signing attack minded pacy wingers and attacking midfielders. Marin,Hazard,Oscar and Moses followed which meant that the pacy and skillful Belgian had to play else where to have regular football. De Bruyne was loaned out to Werder Bremen at the start of the season and he has already alerted his parent club of the enormous potential that he is. At Bremen, De Bruyne has also been employed as a false 9. He has started in every of Bremen's matches so far and has scored 2 goals and provided an assist in 6 matches.
Goals : 2 Assist :1

Jeffery Bruma
Club : Hamburg (Germany)
Playing Position : Center Back
Age:20
Nationality : Netherlands

The Dutch center back is in his second season at Hamburg having extended the loan deal that   began at the start of the 2011/12 season and has been a regular in the team ever since. Bruma kept his place in the starting XI at the start of the season but is currently injured and missed the last 3 matches.



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