Need some silverware? The Chelsea Youth and Reserve Thread - [R]

It's something I'm keeping an eye on and regularly searching foreign media for but until there's a replenished structure at the club I'd not expect much. Anything I find will be on my Twitter as usual.

 

Where He went, do You have any info?

Thanks,

 

hamburg

 

Gokhan has made the bench for Turkey tonight.

What a guy.

 

So let me get this straight, Chelsea have become the youth farm for Hamburg?? WTF?? Just to further the question:

I remember people here liked Sala. Now he will go elsewhere.

 

BluesChronicle Dan Levene
Gokhan Tore has become the 3rd Chelsea youngster to make a permanent move to Hamburg. German media tonight reports he signed a 3-year deal.
2 minutes ago

 

Did we do something to tick Arnesan off?

 

dan_bu dan_bu
HSV will pay a combined fee of about €2.5m for Mancienne, Sala and Töre, according to several media reports from Hamburg.
2 minutes ago

 

I hope they do awesome.

Anyways, why be upset over this lol? Better for them to advance their careers than rot in our reserves.

 

If the player wants to go back home, not much you can do.

 

all 3 are from Hamburg

 

Granted Hamburg is closer to Koln than London, but come on??? This guy was just starting to show his game. I can't freakin' believe this even went down. Where was our adviser on this decision???

 

Tore is from Germany, I had hoped it was obvious I was referring to him

I won't lose sleep over this.

 

I read this today as well. But I question how accurate that number is. I remember it being mentioned that Mancienne alone was going for 3 million and the other two were going for 1 million and change.

Not going to lose sleep over it, highly doubt that MM and Sala would ever make it on the 1st team squad. While Tore has talent, so did Stoch, but he's not exactly lighting up the world.

Only time will truly tell though I guess.

 

yeah seems rather than going 6 players, I think, short as we did this year give them at least a first team shot for a year plus you could add two more non-s with two home grown

 

I understand why some of us are a bit upset, but now that I think of it, would any of these guys ever come close to becoming regulars in our first team? I think our only youth player with a chance of that is Jmac, so I think that maybe roman wants to sell these kids to start winning something out of thr youth system he has basically paid for, although 2.5 mill is a bit of a slow start.

 

Three of them have full international Caps, not like they are from a Sunday youth kick around at the park, the thing is perhaps one or more could, perhaps not, but a little early to write them all off in the home grown era before they hit 20, and they are going to a team that has and may see Cl, in a very good league, so not like the Football world rates them as part time grocers likely to play for a Pub team

 

Whether they're full internationals, potentials or even 50/50s, the point is that we need to keep our youth and try and grind out some real homegrown talent instead of just buying them from others, and were never gonna establish that type of MENTALITY or PHILOSOPHY or even a WORKING SYSTEM if we keep releasing these kids.

And its not for the fairplay and homegrown rules that will take effect shortly, but because that's how football teams have worked and its foolish to think that recipe will change with a lot of money. Plus its so much sweeter when you made that player.

FFS JT is our only homegrown player in our first team since roman took over and well before that.

End of rant.

Summers here, gone fishin!!

 

geez even when you seeming mostly agree with me, it does not sound so, plus cantankerous as well

Absolutely agree with the focus of your points on the letting go of young players issue, and though I think it immensely important for Club Identity and Continuity and all those reasons, also I think significantly because of the realism of the homegrown aspect, which will necessitate that squad players be mostly home grown, and that foreign players be starting quality or in the clear making, which is not to say several of our own youth won't grow or should not be given the chance to become starters