Chelsea’s Tammy Abraham wins PFA fans’ Player of the Month

Chelsea’s starlet loanee Tammy Abraham won the fan voting for the Championship’s Player of the Month, adding to Chelsea’s long list of loan army accolades.

Tammy Abraham has 10 goals in 13 games for Bristol City this season, with seven of those goals coming in the Championship. Bristol City’s next highest scorer, Bobby Reid, has four goals in all competitions.

Abraham won the Player of the Month voting by a surprisingly narrow margin over Newcastle’s Jonjo Shelvey. Abraham bested Shelvey by just under 200 votes, while the two of them shared a significant margin over the third-place finisher. The Chelsea loanee is by far the younger and less experienced, as Shelvey is 24-years-old with several years of Premier League experience at Swansea City and Newcastle.

Abraham joins Andreas Christensen and Mohamed Salah as Chelsea players who earn team- or league-wide honors while on loan. Mohamed Salah was AS Roma’s player of the year for last season, while Andreas Christensen and Lewis Baker earned the same honors at Borussia Monchengladbach and Vitesse Arnhem, respectively.

Chelsea made Salah’s loan a permanent transfer over the off-season, allowing him to find the stability at AS Roma that he never had at Chelsea. He is currently tied for second as Roma’s leading scorers.

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Christensen, meanwhile, has continued his fine form with Gladbach, helping them to their current position in fourth spot.

This award is a deserved one for Abraham. The striker has been sensational for Bristol City, terrorising defences up and down the Sky Bet Championship. This will also please Chelsea fans, who are already excited about his future prospects at Stamford Bridge. He has for long been one of the club’s more outstanding youngsters and it is pleasing to see him hit his straps.

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However, any discussion regarding a Chelsea youngster comes with a caveat. Supporters have become used to watching promising talents end up everywhere but the first-team squad.

Patrick Bamford is a prime example. The striker tore up the Championship, much like Abraham, and was named the league’s player of the season in 2014/15. Instead of becoming a part of the senior squad, Chelsea shipped him off for a catastrophic loan spell with Crystal Palace, before spending time with Norwich.

Bamford is currently clinging onto a life-line at Burnley, but his chances of featuring for the Chelsea first-team seem all but gone.

Given stories like this, you can only hope and pray that Tammy Abraham will carry on his fine form and join Chelsea’s first team next season. The youngster already looks good enough to have a role in the squad, let’s see if it ever materialises.