\n<\/p>\n
The Chelsea youth academy is arguably the best in the world. No end of top stars in world football made their start there \u2013 today, we\u2019re going to look at five of the best young players currently learning their trade at Stamford Bridge.<\/strong><\/p>\n For context, we will only be looking at players who have yet to be included in a Premier League starting lineup in this list. We also won\u2019t be including Omari Kellyman \u2013 we consider him a senior player at this point.<\/p>\n We have already taken a look at the five best players in Arsenal\u2019s youth academy. Today, it is Chelsea\u2019s turn \u2013 who are your picks for this list?<\/p>\n Ryan Kavuma-McQueen\u2019s scoring record at youth level is simply phenomenal. He has won six caps for England\u2019s U17s, scoring eight goals in those sextet of appearances. <\/p>\n Even more amazingly, he isn\u2019t even a striker. He primarily plays as a right-winger, but can also function on the left or as an attacking midfielder.<\/p>\n At the age of 17, Kavuma-McQueen has a glittering future in the sport. He has already played for the senior team, when they took on Port Vale in the FA Cup quarter-finals last season.<\/p>\n A technically-skilled full-back with an excellent defensive acumen, 17-year-old Yisa Alao could well be part of a future England backline. <\/p>\n Technically, he came up through Sheffield Wednesday\u2019s youth academy, but was sold to Chelsea in January to alleviate their financial woes.<\/p>\n A fast, powerful defender who is already a key player for England\u2019s U18s squad, Alao has all the attributes to succeed in the modern game.<\/p>\n Sadly, Reggie Watson was the only player on this list for whom we couldn\u2019t find an image. This isn\u2019t a commentary on his ability \u2013 far from it. At 16 years of age, he is an absolute superstar in the making.<\/p>\n The son of former FA Cup winner Ben Watson, he already is an intelligent, hard-working midfielder who possesses wicked set-piece taking ability. <\/p>\n Again, he didn\u2019t make his start at Chelsea, having initially cut his teeth in Crystal Palace\u2019s youth ranks, but the Blues snapped him up in 2024.<\/p>\n A force to be reckoned with in the U18 Premier League last season, Reggie Walsh resembles a young Frank Lampard in several ways.<\/p>\n A natural goalscorer from attacking midfield, he found the back of the net on seven occasions in eight games for Chelsea\u2019s U18s team last season.<\/p>\n He was also impressive upon his promotion to their U21s team, scoring three goals and racking up six assists over the course of 15 appearances.<\/p>\n Out of all of the exciting young talents in this list, Shim Mheuka might be the best of the lot. Could he be the next Didier Drogba? He certainly has the potential.<\/p>\n A powerful, gifted centre-forward with excellent movement and pinpoint finishing, he scored 17 goals in 17 games for Chelsea\u2019s U21s in the Premier League 2 last season.<\/p>\n He has already made a pair of Premier League appearances for Chelsea, both from the bench \u2013 it is clear that the Blues already recognise his emerging brilliance.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Chelsea youth academy is arguably the best in the world. No end of top…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20924","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\/20924","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=20924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Ryan Kavuma-McQueen<\/h2>\n
Yisa Alao<\/h2>\n
Reggie Watson<\/h2>\n
Reggie Walsh<\/h2>\n
Shim Mheuka<\/h2>\n