Ethan Ampadu casts doubt on Chelsea future after Venezia loan | OneFootball

Ethan Ampadu has cast doubt on his future with Chelsea.

The Wales defender has just completed a season on-loan with Venezia, where he was played as a first-choice.

"Ups and downs like every season," Ampadu said on Friday in the lead-up to Wales' World Cup play-off final against Ukraine. "I have learnt a lot. The expectation was to go there and learn a lot which I felt like I did. Overall, even with it being a negative result as a team, which affects me as well, some of the performances I can take positives from. Every loan has its different challenges, but maybe this is the most positive one."

"A lot of media said that [we were relegation bound], which we were aware of, but maybe it gave us something extra to prove them wrong. Unfortunately, we didn't. At times in the season, we felt like maybe we would have."

When posed the question of his future, Ampadu added: "As a footballer, you want to play in every game, and as a kid, I loved playing every game," he said. "It does help on big occasions [playing week in and week out], but week by week, you want to play football. No one likes to sit and watch it."