Chelsea's longest serving player leaves after 10 years at club

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Absolutely bizarre situation and quite obviously something a bit dodgy going on with it
 

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I remember Chelsea fans bigging up Piazon and Josh Mcwhatshisface as potential Ballon d'Or winners.
 

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R0nald0 said:
Our longest serving player is Phil Jones. People in glass houses...................
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Phil Jones is a Premier League, FA Cup and Europa League winner at the club with a total of 224 appearances.

Piazon has 3 appearances.
 

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duffer said:
No you don't.
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Never seen any hype with Piazon. McEachran was very highly rated by Chelsea fans circa 2010 though. I always thought he looked very average but he was getting game time in what was a very strong squad. Went on to be an ok Championship player but all things considered, he was one who never developed into what Chelsea fans expected.
 

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Sheesh, Van Ginkel will be there 8 years this summer. I thought he was going to be a cracking player for them.
 

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Chelsea are a joke with young players. Hoover the talent, loan, sell. It's the strangest academy in the world.
 

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Dante said:
Phil Jones is a Premier League, FA Cup and Europa League winner at the club with a total of 224 appearances.

Piazon has 3 appearances.
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Say it louder.

Players decline/don’t fulfil the expectations placed on them but winning anything should count for something - he deserves far more support from the fanbase imo.
 

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AFC NimbleThumb said:
Say it louder.

Players decline/don’t fulfil the expectations placed on them but winning anything should count for something - he deserves far more support from the fanbase imo.
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Agreed. Posters seem to think he is a joke, but the ones who cant accept that he has done well for us at times and is clearly a good premier league player are the real jokes.
 

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Morpheus 7 said:
Chelsea are a joke with young players. Hoover the talent, loan, sell. It's the strangest academy in the world.
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Strangest and probably one of the most profitable, for the club and the players who go through it.

We don't really hoover up a huge number of kids from around the world anymore, if you look at our recent FA Youth cup winning sides they're mostly kids from London. The likes of Tammy, CHO, Mount & James have all been there since they were 7 or 8. We don't take as many punts of the likes of Piazon anymore.
 

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duffer said:
Played his first game in 32 months the other day! Been absolutely ravaged by injury.
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This is the one I have sympathy for. I liked him more than Strootman way back, then he got injured for ages and never seemed to get back to being a prospect for Chelsea
 

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Bubz27 said:
Off topic but longer than De Gea?
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Signed the same summer, not exactly sure who was first.

De Gea was confirmed on 29 June 2011.

Jones was announced earlier, on 13 June but he was away with England U-21 at the same tournament De Gea was at with Spain U-21. Jones was said to be signing after the tournament but I don't know the exact date he penned the contract. England were eliminated before Spain won it so it would have given Jones a few extra days to actually sign but I don't know if he did. All that's from Wiki.

Anyway, I'm having Lingard who also turned pro in the summer of 2011 on some unknown date. Technically he could have played for us before turning pro, perhaps in emergency circumstances so he was serving a purpose I suppose. Harvey Elliott, now at Liverpool made his Fulham debut at 15 so Lingard was available to do the same for us if we really needed him to.

Not sure I'd normally consider being with the club as a schoolboy as time-served, but seeing as it's about a 3-way tie with those 3 players as to who has been here the longest as a professional footballer I think it's a reasonable way of splitting them. If we went by actual first team debut, which wouldn't be unreasonable either Lingard would of course have been here the shortest of him Jones and De Gea.
 
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I like how this video of Piazon "rediscovering his skills" is highlights of him doing basic things for a midfielder
 

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Had forgotten all about Musonda, he looked good one season on loan at Spain so thought he would be good talent.

Just 4 games for Vitesse in two year loan so looks to be going same way with injuries as Van Ginklel.

That's the flip side with signing young players on 5-6 year deals. They struggle in first year, then you loan them out and they're not that good or get a bad injury and suddenly they're out of favour with still 3-4 years left on the deal.

Baba Rahman best example of that. Still at Chelsea despite not playing for them since 15-16 season but clubs they loan him out to like Mallorca can't afford to sign him permanently.
 
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