Which club has 33 players out on loan?

[dsqpr]

While the mind boggled at a record £870m Premier League spend during the summer transfer window, another statistic caught the eye from a club that was relatively prudent.

Chelsea's net outlay amounted to £38m - the fourth-highest in the Premier League - but Nathaniel Chalobah's move to Napoli took the number of Blues players out on loan to 33.

The club are not breaking any rules, and it is a pattern repeated across Europe, with Juventus reportedly owning an additional 58 players not in their first-team squad.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34125476


And THAT is how the greedy rich teams manage to keep even more of the money for themselves - by getting lower league teams to develop their players for them and then not paying any transfer fee. Thirty three players out on loan? How can that be allowed?

[très bon don]

It's morally questionable but with FFP it's the only way they can come close to competing financially with the likes of Man Utd. Great business model for a club of their size to be honest.

Plus other big clubs stockpile players - Juventus must have a similar amount on loan and the likes of Bayern, Real, Barca etc. all have B teams where they can develop youngsters. I'd rather Chelsea did this than had a B team playing in the Championship.

[Factamondo]

Your thread headline cud have read.WHICH ODIOUS MUGSPLAY IN SW6

[dsqpr]

Your thread headline cud have read.WHICH ODIOUS MUGSPLAY IN SW6

Yeah but everybody knows the answer to that!

[Factamondo]

Double edged sword

[Hove Ranger]

Been going on for years. Chelsea have affiliated clubs across Europe that are stocked with their players. Look at when Vitesse Arnhem played Southampton a few weeks ago in the Europa league, they had more English players in their team then Southampton.

[vblockiain]

Lovely people at Chelscum most have never heard of Jimmy Greaves let alone Know he is a former player.How can they & Spurs not support his needs now only £30000 needed we raised more for Stan & Alzheimers over 1 weekend disgusting!!!!

[dave58]

Everyone knows that the big teams do this, there should be a rule change that Prem teams can't loan to Prem teams, then quite a lot of these players wouldn't go to these teams because they won't be able to play in the Premiership, and would have to drop down the leagues which they wouldn't want to do?

[Hertford Hoop]

Definitely need to change the rules, its just plain wrong

[bakes8]

If it suits the big teams, don't expect anything to change.

[nasser95]

If it suits the big teams, don't expect anything to change.

Exactly this, its just like FFP, its only designed to increase the separation between the best and everyone else.

[californiahoop]

We will be doing it soon, we will probally have 10+ out on loan over the next few weeks, 30 odd is excessive but as mentioned above, I would rather this than a B team.

[nasser95]

We will be doing it soon, we will probally have 10+ out on loan over the next few weeks, 30 odd is excessive but as mentioned above, I would rather this than a B team.

I think the difference is the quality of players, Ours go out on loan with the hope of getting in the first team here. Chelsea and clubs like them loan out players to sell them when they get back without playing them in the first team.

[72bus]

chelsea and man city are everything thats wrong with football . i speak to loads of chelsea fans around my parts but none of them go , most say they can't afford it . i know a fella that calls himself chelsea mark , two chelsea daves and a chelsea bob but none of them go. their are kids playing football outside where i live many of them dressed in the tacky kit but speaking to them they don't even know how to get to stamford bridge . success in football makes a massive divide between players and fans , its now so much about money money money .