Kevin de Bruyne

[LAM09 7,043]

Behave. 

Just check his post history

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22 hours ago, MCM4PR3Z said:

How does he do all those things? Is this the best player ever that played for Chelsea?

We have multiple players who the best in the world at their positions for a period of time whilst they were at Chelsea

Lampard at AMF

Terry at CB 

Claude Makélélé at DMF (partially at Real Madrid)

Kante at DMF

Ashley Cole at LB (partially at Arse)

you could make a case for Cech at times (Buffon though,and Neuer and Casillas as well), and also one can make a case for Drogba at pure CF a couple years split up (Drogba peaked after Henry's last all world year)

 

KDB is by FAR the best AMF in the world atm, but none of this occurred here (FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK)

 

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13 hours ago, LAM09 said:

14 hours ago, DDA said:

Behave. 

Just check his post history

😄 a fan of Belgian players who play or have played for Chelsea. They come and go. 

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I’m wondering if he stays if City’s european ban go ahead, maybe we can loan him 2 seasons 😜

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10 minutes ago, Hamilton said:

I’m wondering if he stays if City’s european ban go ahead, maybe we can loan him 2 seasons 😜

I think Bayern will take him. 

Been in Germany, can easily go back. 

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On 15/09/2019 at 9:08 PM, Robchels said:

Well,  my unpopular opinion around Here has always been that he’s Belgium’s best player, not hazard.

hazard is more easily contained, still not easy obviously, but teams can give him the side and contain his influence. Kevin plays in the centre and has a huge passing rage, which means that he can be dangerous even still far away from opposition goal, which means away from the contested areas.

and then if he does get close to the opposition goal, he can still both assist and score from afar. That’s a lot to worry about when playing against him.

Therefore a team who wants anything from playing Belgium needs to stop Kevin, imo.

I met my younger daughter's then boyfriend for the first time in summer 2012. A while later we met again and talked football when he asked what I thought of Eden. I told him that we had sent the best player we signed that year out on loan to Germany. I had watched a lot of KDB when he finished the season with Genk after joining us in the January window and fell in love with his game.

Full disclosure, I watched virtually every game KDB played at Bremen but was sometimes less than impressed with his displays there, often posting to say that I thought his performances were attracting more praise than they deserved. That's not to say I thought he was always bad; the quality he possesses will eventually shine through, but he did have a few bad games for Werder.

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38 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Full disclosure, I watched virtually every game KDB played at Bremen but was sometimes less than impressed with his displays there, often posting to say that I thought his performances were attracting more praise than they deserved. That's not to say I thought he was always bad; the quality he possesses will eventually shine through, but he did have a few bad games for Werder.

VfL Wolfsburg

 

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I met my younger daughter's then boyfriend for the first time in summer 2012. A while later we met again and talked football when he asked what I thought of Eden. I told him that we had sent the best player we signed that year out on loan to Germany. I had watched a lot of KDB when he finished the season with Genk after joining us in the January window and fell in love with his game.
Full disclosure, I watched virtually every game KDB played at Bremen but was sometimes less than impressed with his displays there, often posting to say that I thought his performances were attracting more praise than they deserved. That's not to say I thought he was always bad; the quality he possesses will eventually shine through, but he did have a few bad games for Werder.

Don't forget that KDB played in so many different positions at Bremen like playing on the wings, as a striker and sometimes as a no. 10 or 8.
He basically played all offensive positions you can imagine.There were many People in Germany, including me, that realised that he was going to become a monster type of player. Sadly, Mourinho did not realise what average fans could see...

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I genuinely wanted him to be our Lampard replacement at the time. 

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3 hours ago, killer1257 said:

Don't forget that KDB played in so many different positions at Bremen like playing on the wings, as a striker and sometimes as a no. 10 or 8.
He basically played all offensive positions you can imagine

A chicken and egg situation. It could be argued that he struggled for consistency because he was used in various positions, or that he was used in various positions because he wasn't performing up to his potential often enough in any one of them. Either way, I regret the loss of KDB far more than that of Moh Salah. We are where we are.

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4 hours ago, Vesper said:

VfL Wolfsburg

 

Yes, I tend to think that it was KDB's spell at Wolfsburg that opened the eyes of the world to the full range of his talent. It was undoubtedly his year at Bremen however which encouraged them to pounce for him when he decided to force his way out of Chelsea.

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On 11-5-2020 at 4:37 PM, OhForAGreavsie said:

I met my younger daughter's then boyfriend for the first time in summer 2012. A while later we met again and talked football when he asked what I thought of Eden. I told him that we had sent the best player we signed that year out on loan to Germany. I had watched a lot of KDB when he finished the season with Genk after joining us in the January window and fell in love with his game.

Full disclosure, I watched virtually every game KDB played at Bremen but was sometimes less than impressed with his displays there, often posting to say that I thought his performances were attracting more praise than they deserved. That's not to say I thought he was always bad; the quality he possesses will eventually shine through, but he did have a few bad games for Werder.

He did have 10 goals and 9 assists in the BL for a bad team. Pure class since he was born. Mourinho just chose for Oscar because he was a little bit better at defending.

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On 11-5-2020 at 9:20 PM, OhForAGreavsie said:

A chicken and egg situation. It could be argued that he struggled for consistency because he was used in various positions, or that he was used in various positions because he wasn't performing up to his potential often enough in any one of them. Either way, I regret the loss of KDB far more than that of Moh Salah. We are where we are.

Imagine us dominating the world and winning the CL with KDB, Hazard and Salah. It's such a shame this isn't happening now

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He did have 10 goals and 9 assists in the BL for a bad team. Pure class since he was born. Mourinho just chose for Oscar because he was a little bit better at defending.

I think that he chose Oscar because he is brazilian and they speak the same language

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31 minutes ago, killer1257 said:

I think that he chose Oscar because he is brazilian and they speak the same language

More like he chose Oscar because at the time he was more proven of the two (decent season at Chelsea and #10 shirt for Brazil) and the club had just spend a large amount of money on Oscar the year before, as compared to KdB who was bought on the cheap and had a great season out on loan but it was for a non-PL club so Jose obviously didn't value it as highly. Mourinho probably knew De Bruyne had potential but he just wasn't willing to put in the work into developing him.

Even more so than Oscar I would consider Willian's signing to be the main reason behind De Bruyne's downfall at Chelsea. KdB started the season well playing alongside Oscar, not instead of him, and had Jose not signed Willian he most likely would've continued to feature in games, either as a starter or at least a substitute, and eventually showed Jose and everyone else just how good he was.

But after Mourinho bought Willian at the closing stages of the window I already suspected KdB's chances of making it were blown because there were just too many established players for the AM positions in the squad and Mourinho was always going to prefer his own big signings ahead of the likes of KdB. I remember not wanting Willian for this very reason.