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Wouldn't blame Chelsea fully for that. Young deluded footballers they may have been, but they knew full well they would be on good money with not much expectation put on them to perform or much chance of getting in first team.

 

Yep, people like De Bruyne, Salah, Bertrand Lukaku and Sturridge will never have a career now, lets hope the money Chelsea paid them was worth it

 

Exactly, they need help this Christmas too.

Anyway more to my point was that players like Salah clearly suit a system and the chavs shotgun approach just increases that chance of players appearing to be rejects, when ultimately they are probably very good players.

 

Well done in naming five out of about fifty players

 

Sorry, missed this

etc.

 

Of course different styles, teams or leagues suit different players better but I think the extra 2 or 3 years of maturity help.
I have seen many times people say that this manager or that developed a player and completely ignore the fact he has grown up and entered his best years.

 

Point still stands. There are loads that didn't do so well.

Besides, I don't think that was the original point. Chelsea did buy in bulk in anticipation of FFP. They had very little intention of playing them.

 

I suppose all those young players of the years etc have gone into bigger and better things under liverpool...

You will have to show us how its done

 

Brendan just led a team to 67 games unbeaten Rodgers and Jurgen most entertaining football in the league’ klopp

Hows Roberto Di mateo doing these days... or Rafa

And let’s not get started on the fact you hired a guy that was done for match fixing, no wonder you managed to win the league last year eh

 

I know. You english are such a corrupt bunch

Whats chelsea managers got to do with chelsea players excelling or not?

 

Whether we like them or not, I do envy’s Chelsea youth signings. They picked some great players and sold on for big profit.

Looks like City are now hoovering up all the talent.

And now that we’re moving from Melwood to consolidate the first and youth teams, hopefully we can produce more.

 

Yup, like it or not, Chelsea played FFP perfectly from a business point of view. Young players rarely decrease in value, Hoover enough of them up young for 5-10 mil and then even if you sell them for same price in 2-3 years time, because you got them before ffp and in and sold them after you can use that cash to spend big.

 

You mean Everton, Wolfsburg, Roma can use that cash to spend big

The only big fee Chelsea got recently was shipping Oscar to China

Chelsea released 30 of those young prospects for nothing at all, plus a few more for negligible compensation

 

I know he hasn't been here that long but surprised Jurgen hasn't overseen more youth progress.

I feel our current approach favours domestic talent whilst Klopp has previously developed a mix of talents, not sure whether the club has forced this approach but we may well regret not investing in talent from abroad.

 

Messi wants Barcelona to drop their interest in signing Liverpool's Brazil playmaker Philippe Coutinho, 25, in favour of recruiting a defender instead. (Diario Gol via Express)
Manager reveals failed attempt to sign Liverpool youngster on loan, big fan of his ‘physical attributes’
Bought from the Imperial Academy in Nigeria for just under £1m, Taiwo Awoniyi is still waiting for his work permit to play in England, which means Liverpool are loaning him out around Europe until he’s eligible for one.
http://sportwitness.co.uk/manager-r...l-youngster-loan-big-fan-physical-attributes/

 

Need to get the European ones in before #brexit

 

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says there are no guarantees that 25-year-old midfielder Philippe Coutinho will still be at Anfield after the January transfer window. Barcelona made three bids for the Brazil international in the summer. (Daily Star)

 

It would be really silly to sell Coutinho in January, risking disruption for the rest of the campaign.

 

Not going to happen

 

Cant see him going in Jan. cup tied from Europe and Barca have the league pretty much wrapped up already so he wouldn’t add much value to them this year really.