EX-CHELSEA whizkid Todd Kane has suffered another of football's brutal twists of fortune.
The full-back, 30, who once lifted the Champions League trophy, helped Stockport clinch the League Two title last month but has been released.
It's the latest blow for a player who had EIGHT loan spells while at Stamford Bridge from 2012-2017.
He was a non-playing squad member as Chelsea beat Bayern Munich to win Europe's top club competition in his first year but never made a senior appearance for the Blues.
Yet the London giants rejected bids from Premier League rivals plus Ajax and Borussia Dortmund during that crazy seven-season stint.
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And that lengthy period of uncertainty at Stamford Bridge left Kane advising youngsters regularly loaned out by Chelsea to quit the club.
He only joined Stockport in March - after spending most of the season with Gibraltan club Manchester 62.
County beat Ryan Reynolds' Wrexham to the L2 crown by four points.
But Kane was one of seven Stockport players freed and rendered unemployed at the end of their contract.
However, if anyone is used to the ups and downs of football, it's Kane.
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In his seven years with Chelsea, he was offloaded for temporary spells with Preston, Blackburn, Bristol City, Nottingham Forest, Nijmegen, Groningen, Oxford United and Hull.
His career then seemed well set after his first permanent move to Championship side QPR in 2019 but he left for two years at Coventry in 2021.
After that, he's even had a ninth loan time - at Charlton.
And now he looking for a new club.
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Kane exclusively told the Sun three years ago how he wished he'd departed from Chelsea earlier.
And he dished out astonishingly blunt advice for Stamford Bridge academy starlets who find themselves being constantly farmed out.
He said: “Leave. I’ve had numerous bids from clubs coming in for me down the years but Chelsea would always just say ‘no’.
“I’d tell any young lad now to move on if anyone is interested in you because if you’re good enough to play for someone else, you’re better off taking that opportunity.
“When I was 19, I was rated as one of the best young right-backs in the country – and had I been at any other Premier League club back then I’d have been playing. Plenty of teams wanted to sign me.”
