Talksport host Adrian Durham slams the Blues for sanctioning a permanent exit for their promising youngster Jay Dasilva.
The 21-year-old left Chelsea to join Championship side Bristol City for an undisclosed fee on Wednesday. He has signed a four-year deal after spending last season on loan there. Dasilva came through the youth ranks at the Blues Academy after joining the club at 13.
Durham can't make sense of the transfer: "I have to say I’ve seen him a couple of times, Jay Dasilva, and have been really impressed. I was shocked, absolutely shocked when I was that it was a permanent deal.
"I would have rolled my eyes to heaven if I had heard it was another season-long loan. But here Chelsea have said ‘yeah it’s alright, you can go’.
"He’s so highly-rated, he looks so good, and having won so much as a youth with Chelsea, I can’t get my head around it. For me, it doesn’t make any sense. If there are Chelsea fans fuming about it, I can understand it.
"What puzzles me about it is this: if they’ve got these youth players, young players, Chelsea and Frank Lampard and Jody Morris are being taken back to the club, surely the youth players, especially with the transfer embargo, are part of the program."
