Lucas Piazon: "It's time for me to stay somewhere more than one year."
Lucas Piazon spoke to the DailyMail after his loan move to Fulham and has criticised the loan army cycle that finds so many Chelsea players stuck in.
'I hope I can do a good job at Fulham,' said Piazon. 'It's a good club and a traditional club. 'They have started the season well. Then I have to stay for more than one year at a club who can see me as their player and not a player from Chelsea who will one day go back to Chelsea. I'm tired of moving abroad. One, two, three loans, maybe that's enough. It's time for me to stay somewhere more than one year. When they know you'll stay whatever happens, people look at you with different eyes.
'If I had the chance to go for more than one season I'd do it.'
Fulham is Piazon's fifth loan spell at only 22. His burst onto the scene at Chelsea as a kid in high demand. Loan moves to Holland, Germany, Spain and England has kept the Brazilian on the go.
'It makes no sense to go on loan all the time,' he said. 'It is not good for any player in my experience — or the experience of the other boys. I don't see it as a positive thing any more. To be in a different place every year is not good for me at 22.
'It's difficult to get a place in the team. They have their own players. You do your best, try to get a place in the squad, minutes on the pitch, score and create goals. That's all you can do. I had a great time at Vitesse Arnhem and that helped. The Dutch league is all about playing football. They don't defend like crazy. We had a great squad, playing great football and it was so easy to score or make assists.
'Then I moved to Germany (Eintracht Frankfurt) where you have to run 12km or 13km in every game. After the first game I lay on the pitch, almost dead. I've learned it takes time to adapt and maybe with two or three years in Germany I could have made a better impact.
'I still want to make it at Chelsea, of course,' he said. 'I came to Europe to play for Chelsea and want to do it. Maybe I can come back in the future. If that's not possible I want to go somewhere and stay for more than one season. Not just stay stuck in the club.'
