Chelsea FC sign 18-year-old Stipe Perica

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

Good luck to the lad, hope he can make it at Chelsea. Lets see what our club will do with him.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Vitesse? Or actually stay with the U21s?

[yuvala 2,167]

Good luck to him.. see you in.. 3-4 years ?

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

These type of signings never seem to work out. I don't understand why these kids come to a club like Chelsea that young. Unless you're a Ronaldo or Messi then you're going to have to learn your trade at a smaller club like Eto'o did and many others.

Maybe because they want to put their development in hands of a world class club with world class staff and facilities. Not only that, just having "Chelsea" on your CV gets you noticed even if you're a garbage player.

[Amblève. 4,995]

Well, he was a bit of an arse during the last few weeks and months at Zadar, his former club. Said stuff like, he would definitely not play for Zadar anymore and his options for the upcoming season are either Dinamo Zagreb or some foreign club. Hope the dude's just ambitious rather than an ego-guy.

[LegenTerry 273]

Why so much pessimistic guys ?

[Waterfall 893]

Dunno if he will play for the youth teams, but he'll have a whole foot on Feruz

[IliyaDamyanov 43]

so we have new striker and we won't buy rooney

[Strike 7,474]

Good. We're a bit light in the youth striker department. Only Bamford and Lalkovic as far as I can recall.

[coolhead23 1,147]

These type of signings never seem to work out. I don't understand why these kids come to a club like Chelsea that young. Unless you're a Ronaldo or Messi then you're going to have to learn your trade at a smaller club like Eto'o did and many others.

Seriously, mate. We are talking about a Top 10 Club, amazing sets of players both in the senior side and youth teams, great infrastructure surely among the best, good coaches at youth levels, playing in almost every competition not in only in England but also Europe ... What more can a young player can ask for specially when he is in his development phase.

Us playing quite a few tournaments from this season and with less quality up front he would provide competitions for place up front. If he develop well that a bonus and another point in the scouting team's hat else he can always be sold out for profit. This would be a win-win situation for the club

I like what Chelsea is doing, the intention is to win things at every level which is really good. I dont see him go on loan right away rather more of a player to strengthen the youth side .. Thats my belief ... I hope he does well ...

[BlueLion. 21,491]

[BlueLion. 21,491]

In all seriousness, good luck to him. How long until he's farmed off to Vitesse?