Chelsea management have shown a lack of intuition when it comes to separating early bloomers from first team Blues' material.
Jeffrey Bruma, on loan at Hamburg, is one of the worst defenders in the Bundesliga, but he's still on the books of Chelsea.
Despite the Eredivisie's attack-first mentality suiting Gael Kakuta's panache playing style, he has been inconsistent as a Vitesse loanee.
The club has had to loan him back to his original club (Inter Zapresic) which means CFC have now made two admissions that the Croatian keeper has regressed.
If Benfica can sell a run-of-the-mill player in Javi Garcia for £15.8 million, they could extract a £25-30 million fee from potential Matic-suitors.
The Englishman outperformed Fernando Torres as a Bolton Wanderers loanee and displayed the instinctive tendencies required in an elite goal scorer.
Unfortunately, playing a box-to-box midfielder and a goal-scoring midfielder in the two pivot positions is more logical in the eyes of management.
Filippo Inzaghi had a torrid season with Parma before going on to cement his place as one of the greatest goal poachers of his generation.
But, if Ryan Bertrand can start a handful games as a winger, why not Fabio? The Italian scored goals in a wide role at Roma.
Last season for Hamburg, he averaged 5.3 dribbles per game, which was more than Cristiano Ronaldo (1.9), Santi Cazorla (1.3), Jesus Navas (1.1) and Alexis Sanchez (0.9) combined.
Why make a £7 million punt on Marko Marin, who was coming off his worst season ever, when Tore could have been moulded into a David Odonkor-type super-sub?
Just a caveat, I haven't watched Miroslav at Fenerbahce, but he had some extraordinary individual moments on loan at Twente a few seasons back.
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