{"id":12738,"date":"2026-05-27T04:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=12738"},"modified":"2026-05-27T04:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:06:39","slug":"chelsea-could-loan-out-first-team-striker-before-hes-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=12738","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea could loan out first team striker before he&#8217;s played"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Chelsea\u2019s potential loans for next season show what a bad situation the squad is in now that there is no European football to come.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoy Chelsea News coverage and want to see more of it, add us as a preferred source on Google to make us a favourite and see more of our content.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With the transfer window now open, it\u2019s the time for everyone to publish their \u201ckeep, sell, loan\u201d pieces about Chelsea\u2019s current squad.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Vincent just did one for Football.London, and his list of players to be loaned out makes for interesting reading. It\u2019s a real rag tag bunch.<\/p>\n<p>Dario Essugo, Josh Acheampong, Shim Mheuka and Emmanuel Emegha are his choices to be loaned out next season.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea\u2019s loan list shows messed up squad situation<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s a list which shows what a weird position Chelsea\u2019s squad are in now, especially with no European football to keep people happy next season.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s two academy kids who aren\u2019t getting enough minutes, a player signed for the first team last summer who missed almost the whole campaign injured, and a player signed in September who won\u2019t arrive until this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing is a mess \u2013 each of these guys has been mis-managed to some degree. Emegha especially \u2013 imagine signing a player to arrive 12 months later then ending up loaning him out anyway.<\/p>\n<h2>In other news\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>Paul Merson thinks that Chelsea should do everything they can to get their loan player back and playing for them again.<\/p>\n<p>Two Chelsea players could leave this summer after just one year at the club \u2013 it\u2019s a sign of how badly wrong things have gone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL CHELSEA NEWS APP FOR ALL THE LATEST UPDATES \u2013 STRAIGHT TO YOUR PHONE! ON THE APP STORE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Check out the latest edition of Simon Phillips\u2019 SPTC podcast here:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SPTC Podcast! Fresh Xabi Alonso to Chelsea news! Summer Transfer Plans! FA Cup Final Preview!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yiYy60DQcxI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea\u2019s potential loans for next season show what a bad situation the squad is in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}