Chelsea midfielder Victorien Angban has signed a new contract at the club and will join Metz on a temporary deal.
The 21-year-old has signed a one-year contract extension at the club and will now join up with Ligue 1 team Metz on a season-long loan, with the Blues confirming the news via their official Twitter account.
Victorien Angban has today signed a one-year contract extension and joined French side Metz on a season-long loan.
Congrats, and good luck, Victorien. ? https://t.co/dGZuuWPcAT
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) July 27, 2018
The Ivory Coast international, who has seven caps under his belt for his country, spent last season on loan at Belgian side Waasland-Beveren, where he made 33 appearances and scored once.
OPINION
There are so many Chelsea players who go out on loan every season across Europe and many Blues fans won’t even recognise Victorien Angban’s name, despite him signing for the club in 2015. This player is an Ivory Coast international midfielder, who has played seven times for his country and obviously has quality, but he’s being sent out on a temporary deal every season in the hope that another club will buy him and the London outfit will make a profit on his sale. That is no way to treat professional footballers, but the game is becoming more like a business and teams like Chelsea will make a lot of money stockpiling players and selling them on when their value goes up. The Stamford Bridge faithful won’t really care much about how Angban gets on at Metz next season as he’ll probably never play for the club. They need to focus less on buying players who will never play for the club and concentrate more on making their first-team as competitive as possible.