{"id":211647,"date":"2018-08-10T11:53:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T15:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=211647"},"modified":"2020-12-21T19:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:44:26","slug":"michy-batshuayi-joins-valencia-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2018\/08\/10\/michy-batshuayi-joins-valencia-on-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Michy Batshuayi Joins Valencia on Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michy Batshuayi has left Chelsea again. Following a six-month loan to Borussia Dortmund last season, the striker will ply his trade for Valencia this season, following his loan move.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chelsea striker Michy Batshuayi is set to join Valencia on loan ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lQjeF9kSJI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/lQjeF9kSJI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6ukgQmAXii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/6ukgQmAXii<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1027933221378510848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Michy Batshuayi Loaned to Valencia<\/h1>\n<p>New Chelsea manager <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/08\/08\/maurizio-sarri-bringing-chelsea-forward\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maurizio Sarri<\/a> apparently has no space for the Belgian striker this season. Without Batshuayi, the new Blues boss will face the new campaign with only strikers <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/01\/31\/olivier-giroud-signs-for-chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olivier Giroud<\/a> and Alvaro Morata at his disposal.<\/p>\n<p>While Giroud really made an impact after joining from Arsenal in January, Morata found life in London difficult. Therefore, loaning out Michy Batshuayi can be seen as a risk of sorts.<\/p>\n<h2>Dangerous in Dortmund<\/h2>\n<p>Batshuayi made 14 appearances for <em>Die Schwarzgelben<\/em>, scoring nine goals across all competitions. This includes a brace on his debut against Cologne in February. Meanwhile, his time at Dortmund was cut short via an ankle ligament injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian striker&#8217;s main assets are his pace and strength, with his tactical intelligence improving with age.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite his fine play in the Bundesliga, Michy Batshuayi found life at Stamford Bridge much more difficult. In 32 league matches, the striker found the back of the net only seven times.<\/p>\n<p>While not overly-impressive in blue, Batshuayi has found joy on the international stage. He netted eight goals in 19 appearances for his native Belgium so far, including a goal against Tunisia in the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Now age 24, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/players\/7450\/Michy-Batshuayi\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michy Batshuayi<\/a> will need to prove himself yet again. He is no longer the teenage prodigy who graced the fields of Standard Liege, but rather a\u00a0\u00a333 million striker who has consistently underperformed for his parent club.<\/p>\n<p>With Batshuayi&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/michy-batshuayi\/profil\/spieler\/179184\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contract extending until 2021<\/a>, the Blues will hope he finds life in Spain to be much more fruitful than in London. 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Following a six-month loan to Borussia Dortmund last season, the striker will ply his trade for Valencia this season, following his loan move. Chelsea striker Michy Batshuayi is set to join Valencia on loan ? https:\/\/t.co\/lQjeF9kSJI pic.twitter.com\/6ukgQmAXii \u2014 BBC Sport (@BBCSport) August 10, 2018 Michy Batshuayi Loaned to Valencia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2390,"featured_media":211692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,30,3,28],"tags":[46,1297,1500,1101,37],"class_list":["post-211647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-liga","category-news","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-chelsea","tag-football-transfer-news","tag-maurizio-sarri","tag-michy-batshuayi","tag-transfers"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}