{"id":565067,"date":"2020-09-07T16:07:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T20:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=565067"},"modified":"2020-09-07T16:07:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T20:07:46","slug":"sheffield-united-sign-ethan-ampadu-on-season-long-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/07\/sheffield-united-sign-ethan-ampadu-on-season-long-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield United Sign Chelsea\u2019s Ethan Ampadu on Season-Long Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/sheffield-united-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_self\">Sheffield United<\/a> have completed the signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> centre-back <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/10b9fa99\/Ethan-Ampadu\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ethan Ampadu<\/a> on a season-long loan. The Wales international could be involved when the Blades host Wolves in their opening fixture of the season this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Ampadu\u2019s parent club Chelsea rate the 19-year-old very highly. The club believe with invaluable<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_self\"> Premier League<\/a> experience at Sheffield United, the defender will be ready for contention next season.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Defender Ethan Ampadu Joins Sheffield United on a Season-Long Loan<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"cy\">Ethan Ampadu is a Blade. \ud83d\ude0d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5UeMRo3Eib\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/5UeMRo3Eib<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheffield United (@SheffieldUnited) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SheffieldUnited\/status\/1303055165386297344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Versatility of Ethan Ampadu Attracts Wilder<\/h3>\n<p>Ampadu\u2019s ability to operate as a central defender and a holding midfield player will certainly impress Chris Wilder. The Blades boss operates with three centre-backs. So the acquisition of Ampadu will most likely increase competition in that department.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ampadu played his entire youth career at Exeter City as a midfielder. So is no stranger to the position. When he first joined the Blues, Ampadu continued playing as a central midfielder. His performances in the middle of the park impressed the management team and he really made the position his own.<\/p>\n<p>But in the teenager\u2019s last couple of seasons, he has been deployed as a centre-back more often than not. In the 2019\/20 campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/49059041\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ampadu spent a season on loan with RB Leipzig<\/a>. The Champions league semi-finalists used the Chelsea man as a centre-back. That was of course when he played.<\/p>\n<h3>In Need of More Game Time<\/h3>\n<p>Ampadu\u2019s time with German club RB Leipzig will be remembered as a frustrating time for him. He managed three appearances for the club, as they enjoyed very successful domestic and European campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>the Welshman himself labelled the move to Leipzig as \u201cnot as good as I hoped\u201d. But the defender still outlined that he had learnt a lot from his year in Germany. Next season should see Ampadu be given a lot more game time and build invaluable experience in doing so.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a telling time for <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/268df6b1\/Frank-Lampard?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frank Lampard<\/a>, to see how loanee handles the rigours of the premier league.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"7AYl0QTcR6lujkeb09PRbQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1221561603\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'7AYl0QTcR6lujkeb09PRbQ',sig:'f1nwI_SbSxJzLx2ekVXbuXYYRprdRD67ZhCcnkDlnX8=',w:'594px',h:'386px',items:'1221561603',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield United have completed the signing of Chelsea centre-back Ethan Ampadu on a season-long loan. The Wales international could be involved when the Blades host Wolves in their opening fixture of the season this weekend. Ampadu\u2019s parent club Chelsea rate the 19-year-old very highly. The club believe with invaluable Premier League experience at Sheffield United, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":565072,"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":[3839,1827,11,3,28],"tags":[46,2036,2918,660,620,771,136],"class_list":["post-565067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sheffield-united","category-academy","category-chelsea","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-chelsea","tag-chris-wilder","tag-ethan-ampadu","tag-frank-lampard","tag-rb-leipzig","tag-sheffield-united","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565067","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}