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It appears that Marcos Alonso played his last game for Chelsea after being excluded from the first team before the opening of the January transfer window on Friday.
The Spanish winger hasn’t played a single minute for the club since September, when he was hooked at halftime while the Blues were 3-0 down at West Bromwich Albion, a game they tied 3-3 in his absence.
Despite having played the full 90 minutes in the previous two games against Brighton and Liverpool before the Baggies draw, Alonso has not been involved in a Premier League team of the day since.
That includes Monday, when the Blues drew 1-1 with Aston Villa, he was at home celebrating his 30th birthday, and Lampard chose to play Ben Chilwell, whose physical condition had been in question before the game.
To commemorate the occasion, Alonso uploaded an image to Instagram that showed him about to blow out the candles on his birthday cake.
Alonso now seems ready to join Atlético de Madrid on loan according to The Independent.
Aside from four appearances on the bench in the Champions League, Alonso has been banished from the first team squad since the encounter at The Hawthorns that left his coach Frank Lampard furious.
It was claimed that, after being substituted, he tried to watch the second half from the team bus instead of with his teammates in the stands, without the permission of the Chelsea manager.
It is understood that he has showered and got on the bus after being dragged along with midfielder Mateo Kovacic, who took his place in the stands with the rest of the squad, and then reappeared in the stands a while later.
Despite Chelsea’s comeback in the second half, Lampard is understood to have launched a verbal tirade at Alonso in the locker room at full time.
Alonso was seen as the main culprit for two of the goals, making it easy for Lampard to freeze him on the side with Chilwell now as a first-choice left-back and Emerson Palmieri acting as a backup.
The former Sunderland loan officer has been at Stamford Bridge since signing from Fiorentina for £ 24 million in the summer of 2016, where with manager Antonio Conte he helped the Blues lift what to date is their last Premier League title. in its first season.
In addition, he has lifted the FA Cup and the Europa League during his stay in West London, playing 152 games in total in which he has accumulated 22 goals and 17 assists.
A move to Inter Milan had been in the pipeline since his fall with Lampard, where he could once again join forces with Conte, who hopes to bring the Italian giants back to the top of Italian football.
Chelsea had initially shown no signs of trouble in Alonso’s absence as they emerged as contenders for the Premier League title heading into December.
But they have since lost three of their last six matches in all competitions, winning just once, and now reside sixth in the league table and six points behind leader Liverpool, having played one more match.
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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