Chelsea's loaning of all of the players, all of the time, is so well documented that even the club have a page dedicated to all their loanees under the banner "Teams" because numbering 38 they could be a whole team themselves. Young goalkeeper Jamal Blackman is one of those players and he's on big wages considering.
Blackman joined Chelsea in 2012, has made a total of zero senior appearances for the Blues and is currently on his third loan club at Wycombe having previously played with Middlesbrough in the Championship and Östersunds FK in Sweden, where he made the first of his league appearances in senior football.
The keeper from Croydon apparently signed a new five year deal at Stamford Bridge in 2014, and according to The Sun, that's despite the Stamford Bridge side having no thoughts of him ever making a first team appearance for them. And for forever being on loan Blackman is on £13k-a-week, not bad for a League Two player!
To put that in context the average wage for a League Two player, as reported by the Daily Mail earlier this year, is around £40k per year! That puts Blackman on roughly 15 times more than his colleagues.
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Blackman will never make it as a first teamer at Stamford Bridge so his worth is just in loan fees for the Blues right now.
Chelsea now seemingly use their loan strategy is an extra way of bringing in income rather than developing players in order to promote them to the first team when they are ready. Defender Andreas Christensen is reportedly earning £20k-a-week and has also rarely looked close to making it into the first team.
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