CHELSEA starlet Karlo Ziger has become the latest member of the Blues’ famous loan army.
The Croatian goalkeeper, 20, has joined Slovenian Second League side NK Rudar Velenje until the end of the season.
It is the stopper’s second temporary switch away from Stamford Bridge.
He previously had a brief spell at then non-league Sutton United in 2019.
Ziger made his senior football debut in the one-game emergency loan.
The FA Trophy clash may have finished 3-0 to Spennymoor but Ziger took home his team’s man of the match award before heading back to Chelsea.
The ace shot to prominence amongst Chelsea fans when they noticed a new face on the bench as Krasnodar were dispatched in the Champions League last October.
Ziger sat alongside veteran Willy Caballero as the Blues won 4-0 in his first venture into a senior squad.
The Zagreb-born teenager signed a pro contract at Chelsea in July 2018.
That was due to expire this summer, but he was handed a 12-month extension after joining out with first-team training last term.
He is now the third keeper to leave the club for further experience on loan with Nathan Baxter heading to Hull City and Jamie Cumming going to Gillingham.
It total, Ziger is the 13th player to be loaned out by the Blues so far this window.
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