as patrick bamford fired home his 19th middlesbrough goal of the season on tuesday night, there was one question on everybody’s lips: can he make the grade at chelsea next season? the 21 year old striker has been prolific in his loan spells at boro, derby and mk dons, so much so that sportsmail understands his parent club are opening talks with him over a new deal needless to say it would see his wages rise from his current £7,500 a week deal he will also be given the chance to impress jose mourinho on chelsea’s summer tour although at the end of it he is expected to go out on loan again this time, though, bamford will be sent to a premier league club, preferably aitor karanka’s middlesbrough should they join the blues in the top flight scroll down for video  patrcik bamford (centre) scored in middlesbrough's  their 2 1 championship win over wolves on tuesday  bamford reels away in celebration after netting his 19th goal of the season in all competitions for boro  the 21 year old's (centre) sparkling form has led his parent club chelsea to open talks over a new deal  the worry is that it is the same tactic the club employed with romelu lukaku, who was eventually sold to everton but bamford is a confident young man and will believe he can emulate tottenham’s harry kane and force chelsea’s hand bamford is currently one of 26 players out on loan from stamford bridge   five of which are rival frontmen   while academy forwards dominic solanke and isaiah brown have already won elevation to the senior set up then there are diego costa, loic remy and didier drogba already competing for that sole striking role the chances of bamford making his mark next season, you feel, are slim but then weren’t the chances of kane scoring 29 goals for spurs in his breakthrough season and then netting on his full england debut also outlandish? bamford has already impressed mourinho with his attitude the striker was sat with his dad and chelsea’s technical director two years ago when the manager walked in and boldly demanded of the youngster, ‘what do you want?’ he was encouraged by the reply ‘to play for chelsea,’ returned the well mannered but equally brazen rookie chelsea boss jose mourinho (right) has been impressed with bamford's attitude as well as his development  romelu lukaku (pictured in 2011) was sold to everton in the summer after failing to make the grade  chelsea youth product dominic solanke (centre) has won elevation to the first team squad this season  tottenham striker harry kane (left) has scored 29 goals in his breakthrough season for the club  bamford has always achieved his goals in life   be it straight a grades at nottingham high school, teaching himself spanish and to play guitar or, indeed, scoring goals as a footballer he left mourinho in no doubt as to his ultimate ambition last summer, when mourinho convinced bamford that middlesbrough was the best place for him, the manager dispensed with his cool exterior and hugged his player ‘he was very emotional,’ recalls the 21 year old and there is the ace which bamford holds   mourinho likes him in june he will line up alongside spurs’ kane for england at the under 21 european championships kane is just six weeks older and has plotted a similar path through the football league on tuesday night he became boro’s first player since 1990 to score 17 league goals in one season the play offs are boro’s most likely destination but for bamford   favourite to land the football league’s young player of the year prize   the chance of a showcase match at wembley is no bad thing asked to detail the aspects of his game which have improved this season, bamford said: ‘i now know how to use my strength in that position (lone striker), and i can run a lot more’ if mourinho was listening it would have been music to his ears for bamford’s ability   the raw talent which persuaded chelsea to prise him from nottingham forest as an 18 year old after only 12 minutes of first team football   has never been in question that much was in evidence during the midweek win over wolves his goal was a ruthless combination of technique and instinct at times he reminds you of a young teddy sheringham, but with more pace but more eye catching was the selfless pursuit of a hopeful punt forward when, after out muscling and out pacing his minders, he squared for a team mate to score there is, then, graft as well as craft silk allied to steel but it is bamford’s personality which is most endearing bamford scored in middlesbrough's surprise fa cup fourth round win at manchester city on january 24  the striker's style of play has been compared to ex england and tottenham forward teddy sheringham (left) after training every day he goes home and practises guitar for ‘one hour only’ because he doesn’t want to ‘p*** off the neighbours’ he already plays piano, violin and saxophone and is conversational in german as well as french there was an offer from harvard university to study economics, and he could even have followed his two sisters down a medicine and science route he shunned all of that, however, for a career in football bamford knows what he wants, and so does mourinho he feels he is ready to make the grade at chelsea to do that, like kane, he first needs the chance bamford enjoyed two loan spells at mk dons before spending the second half of last season at derby 
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middlesbrough beat wolves 2 1 in the championship on tuesday night . patrick bamford scored his 19th goal of the season for boro in the win . bamford is  one of 26 players out on loan from chelsea this season . 21 year old has opened contract talks with the blues over a new deal 