Morning Blues: Are Chelsea Sending Their Youngsters to the Wrong Clubs?

Today’s Morning Blues is a Loan Watch special, rating how Chelsea’s loan army has started the 2026/27 season.

We look at the big-money loans: Garnacho’s struggle for minutes at Aston Villa and what it means for his obligation to buy, Disasi playing regularly at Palace, and Badiashile’s quiet start at Napoli. He also covers Strasbourg, where Jørgensen, Antwi and Essugo are all getting European football.

There’s praise for the academy graduates thriving in the EFL, led by 17-year-old Ryan Kavuma-McQueen at Portsmouth. There are also real concerns over Jesse Derry at Sporting, Mamadou Sarr at Real Sociedad and Shim Mheuka at Celtic, which raise a bigger question: is Chelsea sending young players to big clubs, when what they need is regular football?

Plus Lampard’s Coventry beating Newcastle 4-1, the Panorama documentary, and the one loanee Daniel would recall in January.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:37 Lampard’s Coventry thrash Newcastle

01:30 Panorama and the City fallout

02:26 Garnacho at Aston Villa

03:49 Disasi, Badiashile and Mudryk

04:45 Strasbourg: Jørgensen, Antwi and Essugo

06:10 Academy graduates in the EFL