A telephone call that changes your life but not for the better; who knows what thought’s must be going around the head of Lucas Piazon at the moment after Chelsea, for the fifth time in three years, cut from the first-team squad to send him out on-loan once again. Four different countries since 2013, five different clubs and now he’s playing just down the road at Craven Cottage Fulham. The 22-year-old recently declared that; “There’s no benefit getting sent out here there and everywhere. I know it’s hard to try to find a first-team place at Chelsea but I’m tired of moving around so much. At least they could let me stay for longer than one season”.  

Piazon now feels abandoned by those who promised him so much. Chelsea convinced the striker that London was the best place to continue his development after he had already bought a ticket to go to Italy. Everything was done with Juventus and Piazon had visited Turin and was invited to play with the Primavera squad against Roma, but he chose to accept the riches of Abramovich and now he feels like Marty McFly in Back to the Future, but without the Doc or a DeLorean to return him to 2011.


By Federico Zanon. Adapted & translated by Steve Mitchell