Patrick Bamford has confirmed that he is ending his horrendous loan spell at Crystal Palace after going in search for regular first-team football starts.
Bamford has failed to make a single start under Alan Pardew after moving to Selhurst Park last summer on a season-long deal, despite injuries to
First-team players like Fraizer Campbell, Connor Wickham, Dwight Gayle.
The Chelsea loanee was brought as a substitute at half-time for Marouane Chamakh and he missed a good chance during the goalless draw of Palace against Swansea.
He has confirmed that he will be exercising a clause in his loan agreement to return to Stamford Bridge in January.
“That was my last game for Palace,” Bamford told reporters.
“If I were being honest, it has been terrible. No one wants to sit on the bench and not play.
“Obviously, things haven’t worked out for whatever reason. I would have been more content if I had been given a chance and not taken it.”
Patrick joined Chelsea in January 2012 for a £1.5 million deal from Nottingham Forest and earned himself a reputation of England’s promising goal scoring talent during loan spells with MK Dons, Derby County and Middlesbrough and has now decided to leave Palace after failing to get a single start.
Bamford’s goalless nine game stint with the Eagles is probably coming to an end since he hasn’t got many chances, but Alan Pardew insists that Palace is yet to talk with Chelsea about the player’s future.
“Strikers will always tell you they need five games,” said Pardew of Bamford’s form.
“Managers ain’t got time for five games. You’ve got to come in and do it. But that chance was normally one he would take. “
When asked if Chelsea would recall Bamford in January, Pardew added: “I think it’s a conversation we’ll have to have with Chelsea for sure, but we haven’t had it yet.”
It has to be seen whether Chelsea will use his servies given that he is a striker given that Chelsea’s striking issues are yet to be resolved.