Ethan Ampadu tells Chelsea he ‘needs regular football’ to achieve his ‘dreams’ but admits he is yet to speak to Blues boss Thomas Tuchel about his future
- Ethan Ampadu has told the club he needs to play ‘regular football’ next season
- He is on loan at Sheffield United but says he has ‘dreams’ he wants to achieve
- In order to do so, the 20-year-old defender claims he must get regular pitch time
- Ampadu says he is yet to discuss his future with Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel
Chelsea defender Ethan Ampadu has told the club he needs to play ‘regular football’ next season.
Ampadu, who is currently on loan at Sheffield United, says he has ‘dreams’ he wants to achieve, and to do so, he must get regular pitch time.
The 20-year-old says he is yet to discuss his future with Thomas Tuchel and that he has been spoken to Chelsea ‘a bit here and there’, but insists his focus is on finishing the season well with Sheffield.
Ethan Ampadu (right) has told the club he needs to play ‘regular football’ next season
Speaking to the YorkshireLive, Ampadu said: ‘I haven’t really spoken to him [Tuchel].
‘I have spoken to Chelsea a little bit here and there just to see how the seasons are going, nothing for in the future, they have their season to finish off and we have ours.
‘I need to be playing regular football, but I hope every footballer thinks that.
‘That’s your job and that’s what you want to do, that’s why you grow up having a dream. Where ever I am I want to be playing football.
‘We will have to wait and see what happens. I have dreams myself, that’s to play for one club, so we will have to wait and see.’
Ampadu says he is yet to discuss his future with Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel
He made 12 senior appearances he made after joining Chelsea from Exeter City in 2017
Ampadu – who is coming to the end of his season-long loan from Stamford Bridge – says it has been the biggest of his career so far.
He has made 27 appearances so far this season, with 21 of them being Premier League starts.
Having featured in all three positions along the back, as well as in midfield, Ampadu says this season has been a major learning curve.
The Wales international said: ‘It’s been a huge season for me, the biggest I have had as a footballer.
‘I will take everything away from it that I can. Whether that’s learning and adapting to the Premier League, watching games back on myself and seeing what I can improve on, which I do regularly anyway, off the pitch stuff, mentally, how to look after myself.’
Should Ampadu return to Stamford Bridge this summer, he will be looking to add to the 12 senior appearances he made after joining the Blues from boyhood club Exeter City in 2017.