Lewis Hall has left Chelsea for Newcastle on loan, the club have confirmed on their official website.
It’s one of the most controversial transfers in recent times at Chelsea. The youngster is a home grown academy star, and in the last two seasons made some brilliant cameos when given the chance. However his path to the first team was consistently blocked by conservative managers and some foolish transfer decisions.
In preseason he barely got a minute, with last season’s flop Marc Cucurella preferred simply because he has a bigger transfer fee attached.
Hall is a “pure profit” sale because he’s an academy product and thus cost us nothing in fees.
And so Newcastle get one of our best academy players for a knockdown price (the option in the loan is said to be around £35m), all because we’ve dug ourselves into a financial hole wasting money on average players at huge cost.
No wonder so many fans are frustrated