text: Patrick Bamford has scored 19 goals for Middlesbrough this season and is the Championship's Player of the Year. It is an impressive tally and may yet sweep the club back to the Premier League. He is on loan from Chelsea and the question being asked is whether he could be Stamford Bridge's answer to Harry Kane next season. One difference. Kane got his chance because Tottenham's expensively imported striker Roberto Soldado disappointed. Patrick Bamford (left) hopes to become Chelsea's answer to Tottenham Hotspur's Harry Kane next season . Middlesbrough's Bamford insists he wants to fight for his place at Stamford Bridge with Chelsea . Click here to read chief sports writer Martin Samuel's brilliant column on Jack Grealish . The same cannot be said of Diego Costa at Chelsea. And how many goals would Costa score in the Championship? More than 19, probably. Bamford says he wants to fight for his place at Stamford Bridge but that is an uphill struggle at a point in his career when he should be breaking through and playing regularly. He would be as well angling for a permanent move to Middlesbrough. He'll get games and, if he's good enough, Chelsea can always buy him back later: it worked for Nemanja Matic. Bamford has scored 19 goals for Middlesbrough this season and is the Championship's Player of the Year .
target: Patrick Bamford was crowned the Championship Player of the Year .
  The starlet has scored 19 goals for Middlesbrough this season .
  Chelsea loaned Bamford out and he dreams of wearing the blue shirt .