Ethan Ampadu breaks silence on Chelsea future after learning important lesson at Venezia

On 22 January, Venezia FC's Twitter admin broke an unspoken rule.

The trick of the trade is not to get attached to loan players. Or at the very least, don't make that attachment known to the wider public, particularly not an attachment to those loanees who are farmed out at fiercely high rates from a club that has, over the last odd-decade, come to carve an exquisite industry in doing so.

But it seems, in the 79th minute of Venezia's Serie A clash with Inter Milan, Venezia FC's Twitter admin couldn't help themselves. Ethan Ampadu, the 21-year-old Chelsea defender, loaned out to the ostensibly relegation-condemned Serie A side back in August, had finally cracked them.