Tino Anjorin sets Huddersfield target after Ralf Rangnick decision altered Chelsea star's season

It’s midway through our interview that Tino Anjorin’s tone briefly changes – his geniality replaced by frustration in an instant. “I hate being injured,” he says. “Absolutely hate it. Missing football, it’s the worst thing. I just want to play.”

That hasn’t happened enough this season, something Anjorin accepts. Yet it’s not for want of trying on the part of the 20-year-old. It’s why he has twice stepped away from the security of Chelsea this season.

His first loan move was to Lokomotiv Moscow; a huge step into the unknown and one that ended early due to injury. His second was completed at the end of January as Anjorin agreed to spend the remainder of the campaign at Huddersfield Town.

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The only issue was he needed to recover from the metatarsal injury he sustained in November. And that could not be rushed, despite Anjorin pushing the medical team hard at Chelsea to give him the green light to head up to West Yorkshire.

"I was battering the physios at Chelsea to let me go," the midfielder tells . "I was so eager to get back, and I was hot on it every day. When I was on the verge of doing recovery work out on the pitch, I would come in with my boots on, and the physios would ask why. I always told them it was because we were going out to train, but we wouldn't because it wasn't time. I was always trying to push."

Huddersfield knew that Anjorin would need time to recover, that he wouldn't be able to join up with Carlos Corberan's squad immediately after signing with the club. It was even part of their pitch to the Chelsea academy graduate, who clubs courted across Europe and in England.

"I had a meeting, and they already had a