johnnythefirst

Well, to be honest, Chelsea wasn't the biggest club in England before Abramovic came with all his money. A nice club, yes, but behind Man Utd and Arsenal and maybe even Liverpool (don't shoot me, they had a good team with Owen and the likes ) at the time. Look at what City was before the Arabs came, Utd's ugly little brother. Now Wolfsburg seem to have a nice mountain of cash to spend. Who knows where they'll be in 2 seasons or so. They seem to be making the right moves, and they don't look eager to sell, unlike Dortmund for example. No way Schurrle isn't going to be good for that team.

He's currently one of the top players in the Bundesliga and his team is firmly in second place. "Small team".

Ah, here's the same bullshit again they said about KDB a year ago. "Look at Schurrle! He's at least fighting for his place!" they said. Who should we look at now? It's better to play every week at a smaller club than to waste your years benched at a big one. You know why? Because it's nice to play football and score goals.

I've never seen him act nervous on any occasion. With this guy's mentality and physique, he'd be one of the top guys in any profession of choice..

So he scored three goals in a week playing Barca and Real. I think the last four years were just one long winded practical joke. Rooting for him now though.

He got a 3,5 year deal apparently, so it's only logical for him to move...

No we've been pumping them out since about 2005, when we had a lost generation (bar Kompany, who made it by his own sheer talent and willpower), threw away everything we knew about training kids and started all over again with a new system. Since then, other countries come visit our centres. Even the Dutch. There will not always be an exceptional player like Eden, but our level won't drop all the way down again, our base is solid now.

Well, you came over as offensive. ;-) I came here after they signed the guy in your profile pic, and stayed because it's a fun forum. I liked Chelsea in the Zola-days, I kind of disliked them in the first Abramovic years, now I like them again. I don't like the fact youngsters come to England to bury themselves though. If young players thought about experience in stead of money, Anderlecht would have Januzaj and Musonda Jr. in its starting lineup today. They'd start getting plenty of first team experience, plenty of CL matches and they could transfer to England or Spain or whatever when they're like 19-20-21 years old. For tons of cash instead of some copper coins. We don't keep pumping out these talents by accident. We know what we're doing apparently. Let us. For example, if Chelsea had bought Eden as a 17-year old, he probably wouldn't be the superstar he is today...

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know I had to have a visa to get in here. I've explained myself several times in the past, I'm not going to do it again just for you. ;-)

I'm an Anderlecht fan. And I'm also a Belgian that is tired of 16-17 year old players being snatched away from our "Mickey Mouse League" just to waste 3-4 years on the bench of a foreign team that's far too big for them to start at.

Haha, when hell freezes over. He's going to sign a new contract. You'll have to bring the big bucks to snatch him away now.

Just read he can't play in Europe this season though, bummer.

I'm not completely sure since I haven't seen a lot of his matches for Wolfsburg, but isn't he playing as a playmaker in that team, not as a winger? That would have left him competing with Fabregas in stead of Willian and Schurrle, since I think he loves playing in the center of the team.

Muh, if he's fit, he'll play a lot of games. Anderlecht has a young, talented and offensive team and still plays the EL. They haven't done that bad providing the PL (amongst others) with decent players in the last few years.

But is he decent? Why has a guy with 16 caps for Germany played 6 matches in 4 seasons for Chelsea?

Is he good? I wonder why Anderlecht is getting an extra attacking midfielder. Do you guys have some spare central defenders in stead?

Well fuck me sideways.

Well, that was unexpected.

Didn't read up on him at all, didn't see any matches of him this year, but my gut feeling says he'll become Torres the sequel if you buy him now.

And then he'll come live in a gumdrop house on lollipop laaaaaaane...

His teammate, a very promising young Belgian defensive midfielder called Junior Malanda, just died in a traffic accident. Tragic news... :-(

Weird to me that he so suddenly "lost" it. I thought he'd be in the main team for sure after his WC.

He's like five levels below him, even as a natural LB. Every CB we have would be a better choice imo.

Nah, he's not. When he stays in position, we complain we have no attacking backs, when he leaves position we complain he leaves position. He's an important piece of the team and I think we actually lack a couple of dirtier players. Against Argentina for example, we showed way too much respect. No one dared touching Messi.

He simply shouldn't go anywhere else this season. Also, Bayern is an asshole team. They don't need him at all. The Bundesliga can't keep growing if they just buy every other team's best player every year.