Antonio Rudiger

[OhForAGreavsie 6,058]

7 hours ago, Vesper said:

'Best I've seen': Club's head of football operations says 19-year-old Chelsea prospect will play for England

https://www.thechelseachronicle.com/club-news/best-ive-seen-clubs-head-of-football-operations-says-19-year-old-Chelsea-prospect-will-play-for-england/

Chelsea prospect Levi Colwill is being tipped to play for England in the future.

Colwill, who’s with England’s Under-21s during the current international break, is a highly-rated talent to develop in the Blues academy at Cobham. He’s even been named this week in the top 50 best young prospects in world football.

The 19-year-old’s getting his first taste of senior football with an excellent season-long loan spell at Championship club Huddersfield Town this term.

He’s a left-footed centre-back that’s bossing it in the Championship, so many Chelsea supporters are hopeful he can break into the first-team squad at Stamford Bridge when he returns from his loan.

Leigh Bromby, who’s Huddersfield’s head of football operations, has given a glowing verdict on Colwill after watching him. He’s predicting the teenager will at some stage make it into Chelsea’s first team and the senior England squad, too

“He has been excellent and is not only a credit to himself but Chelsea, with the way they work with players and prepare them. The way he has fit into the dressing room has been unbelievable,” Leigh Bromby said.

“The players and staff really like him and love working with him. He’s looking to improve and working to get better. Talent-wise, for his age, he is the best I’ve seen when I’ve either been playing or coaching.

“The chances, for me, are so high that he will go back and play for Chelsea and England.”

This echoes what the fans are saying about Levi. They are baffled that he hasn't been starting but the fact remains that he hasn't been.

They are as thoroughly hypocritical as you would expect any set of football fans to be by the way. On the one hand, they boast that their club has been good for Levi, as well as for other CFC loanees, so they argue Chelsea should let Levi return to Huddersfield next season. Especially if the go up. On the other hand they see Chelsea as destroying football with the loan system and we should be banned from doing it.

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10 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

This echoes what the fans are saying about Levi. They are baffled that he hasn't been starting but the fact remains that he hasn't been.

They are as thoroughly hypocritical as you would expect any set of football fans to be by the way. On the one hand, they boast that their club has been good for Levi, as well as for other CFC loanees, so they argue Chelsea should let Levi return to Huddersfield next season. Especially if the go up. On the other hand they see Chelsea as destroying football with the loan system and we should be banned from doing it.

The loan system concerning national loans of young players will probably never cease to exist. Clubs could just have other clubs buy their players and have a contract in place that allows them to rebuy the player for a fixed amount a year or two later. As long as all parties are in agreement, I do not see how the loan system is unethical or harmful. The debate is driven by a lot of hypocrisy, envy and hate

[Mário César 1,237]

 

 

[Pizy 18,859]

Barca’s President has been saying over and over again for weeks now that they can’t afford to pay any signings this summer huge wages or it could cripple them.

So you mean to tell me they can afford Rüdiger’s apparently huge salary ask but we can’t? For fucks sake, we’re seriously going to lose a world class CB for free… 🤦‍♂️

Our captain Azpi, the heart and soul of the team Rüdiger, and a solid, ball playing CB in AC all going for free in the same window and to the same club. That would be worth like well north of £100m if they were on the market with longer contracts.

Pretty disgraceful management at board level.

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[nyikolajevics 2,690]

Surprising that Bayern are out. German, would cost nothing, exactly type of player Bayern like to sign and now Süle will leave for free.

They cannot match Rüdigers demands or what?

[Vesper 30,099]

6 hours ago, nyikolajevics said:

Surprising that Bayern are out. German, would cost nothing, exactly type of player Bayern like to sign and now Süle will leave for free.

They cannot match Rüdigers demands or what?

the Bavarians told him to fuck off with his 30m euro signing bonus

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[Pizy 18,859]

Losing two starting CB’s in their primes on free transfers in the same summer. Possibly the most shocking contract management imaginable.

Now in addition to a total overhaul of our attack we’ll also need a total rebuild of our defense. All under new ownership who may not make the funds necessary to do so.

Finishing top 4 next season will be extraordinarily difficult. Forget about a title challenge.

[MoroccanBlue 5,376]

Top 4 becoming a goal now rather than a requirement. 
 

 

[Strike 7,475]

If he really wanted to stay, he'd wait to hear the offer from the new owners. We just have to accept and rebuild. 

[LegenTerry 273]

15 minutes ago, Strike said:

If he really wanted to stay, he'd wait to hear the offer from the new owners. We just have to accept and rebuild. 

 

Exactly. He just prolonged his decision so the fans would think he maybe wanted to stay but 'it was board decision'. Think he had plans for leaving way before, even at start of the season. That's how agents and players operate now. They milk more money from clubs  just for signing for them since there is no transfer fee. He wanted to leave same as Hazard, only difference we knew for Hazard where is his dream club. 
Don't blame him nor Hazard.

Wish him luck, he was outstanding this season for us under Tuchel, but still have a feeling it's more because of Tuchel and system that suited him. 
Match against Bayern two seasons ago ,and some previous games still gives me some doubts about him...

Edited April 23, 2022 by LegenTerry

[lucio 5,418]

Get guehi back 

[Nero 1,869]

25 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Top 4 becoming a goal now rather than a requirement. 
 

 

The new Chelsea = The new Arsenal 

[Pizy 18,859]

Geuhi and Tomori given away from peanuts, Rüdiger and AC literally leaving for nothing, Azpi and Thiago have 1 season left before they leave for nothing, youngsters like Livramento and Lamptey leaving when they could’ve really established themselves due to all our injuries.

Been shocking management at board level. Some of those of course made sense at the time, but if we had all those that left now we’d have an unbelievable squad to carry us into the next era.