Opinion: Chelsea and Huddersfield Town should be on the same page when it comes to fresh transfer agreement

Huddersfield Town came out of the 2021/22 campaign with credit across the board, despite Wembley heartbreak at the hands of Nottingham Forest and VAR in Sunday’s play-off final.  

The club got so much right across the season, whether that was ticket sales, backing Carlos Corberan or wider recruitment.

One thing that will stand out to outsiders, though, is their handling of Levi Colwill on loan from Chelsea. Colwill hadn’t played a minute of senior football before moving to Huddersfield, yet the 19-year-old departs an England U21 international and primed for the top-flight.

The John Smith’s Stadium has been a hotbed for young talent over the years: Colwill, Trevoh Chalobah and Emile Smith Rowe are just three high-profile names to pass through the doors since relegation from the Premier League in 2019.

Another is Tino Anjorin, albeit with little success.

Anjorin was signed by Huddersfield in January, in a bid to tee Corberan’s squad up for that final push for play-off football. A place in the top-six was achieved, yet Anjorin struggled to make an impact after Chelsea gave his move to West Yorkshire the green light.

Despite that, there’s a case to argue that Anjorin should be a player Huddersfield look to re-sign and also that Chelsea should be looking at Huddersfield as the perfect place for the 20-year-old to develop.

In terms of Huddersfield, they could lose Lewis O’Brien’s dynamism in the final third, which is undoubtedly an area of the pitch where they need to improve.

Yes, they found goals easy to come by in 2021/22, yet that was largely thanks to the quality of Sorba Thomas and Danel Sinani through set-pieces. They carried a threat in open play but there’s room for improvement, underlined by the fact they failed to