VIDEO: Hull City v Middlesbrough - Todd Kane ready to lay down some roots

But the 25-year-old Chelsea man does admit the time has come to finally lay down some roots.

“I am out of contract in the summer,” Kane told The Yorkshire Post. “Chelsea have an option but I have told them this will be my last year.

“I want to be settled and have my own career. I have mates who have been at clubs for two or three years. I would like some of that. To get settled and call somewhere ‘home’ instead of knowing I could be moving again.”

Hull are the eighth club Kane has joined on loan from Chelsea in the past half-dozen years.

His longest stay was at Blackburn Rovers, whom he first joined in January, 2013. A successful few months then saw Kane invited back north to Ewood Park for the 2013-14 campaign.

Otherwise, though, the closest the former England Under-21 international has come to staying a full year came at NEC Nijmegen in Holland.

Things initially went so well that Kane could see the door to a possible first team chance at Stamford Bridge swinging open via incoming manager Antonio Conte indicating his chance would come.

Then, though, cruciate ligament damage not only cut short his stay with NEC but also dashed those hopes of representing a club he had first joined as a schoolboy.

A year out put paid to any hopes of making it at the Bridge and a subsequent return to Holland on loan with Groningen failed to work out. Hence why Kane is ready to strike out on his own.

“Having to start again at a new club every year is difficult,” said Kane, who finished last season on loan in League One at Oxford United. “I just want to get settled.