Re: Gaël Kakuta - Le Nouveau Zizou

by Kick Fri Jan 31, 2014 9:28 pm

Loan

by Shed Fri Jan 31, 2014 9:30 pm

Hopefully they'll be dumb enough to buy him in the summer.

by Kick Fri Jan 31, 2014 9:33 pm

Here's hoping.

by lszanto Sat Feb 01, 2014 3:17 am

When does his contact expire with us?

by fatman123 Sat Feb 01, 2014 3:29 am

lszanto wrote:When does his contact expire with us?

I was thinking the same things Laughing

hopefuly its soon

by Shed Sat Feb 01, 2014 3:30 am

Not nearly soon enough.

by Kick Sat Feb 01, 2014 1:52 pm

Knowing us, we'd give him an extension on it soon anyway.

by Shed Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:44 am

Chelsea's Gaël Kakuta set for Elche loan:
French Chelsea attacking midfielder Gaël Kakuta is set to be loaned to Spanish side Elche
for the upcoming season with an option to buy
http://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2014/gael-kakuta-set-for-elche-loan/

by Blue Barrett Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:21 am

Just sell him already ffs.

by Shed Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:37 am

Blue Barrett wrote:Just sell him already ffs.

by Kick Sun Jul 27, 2014 8:00 am

Good Lord

Let's hope THEY buy him.

by Abramovich Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:21 am

Poor guy really wonder what happened with all his potential.

by Soul Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:27 pm

Chelsea needs to take the blame.

I still recall vividly Kakuta making his debut (against the Wolves IIRC) and immediately within minutes he sparked life and creativity into the Chelsea side that was labelled as a one dimensional team for their physical play.

Instead of giving him a proper chance to develop him into the first team we kept on signing established stars and loaned him out of any confidence he had left in himself. Then again, it was a difficult time with all the managerial instability so we had broader issues to respond to.

It is good to see that we are now comparatively better at managing youth talent. But until I see a current generation youngster starting for the first team a la Terry I wouldn't believe it. Right now it seems as if we're just buying every youngster that has got potential just to sell him at a profit to make our books look pretty.

by Shed Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:38 pm

Soul wrote:Instead of giving him a proper chance to develop him into the first team we kept on signing established stars and loaned him out of any confidence he had left in himself.

Had he any respect for himself, he would have kicked on on his loans like scores of other players do all over the world, knowing that regardless of whether he had a future at Chelsea or not, he would be playing football somewhere, and that it would be in his best interests to develop his very obvious talent to its highest potential. As it is now, not even the likes of Vitesse and Lazio want him. That's no one's fault but his own.

by fatman123 Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:46 pm

Soul wrote:It is good to see that we are now comparatively better at managing youth talent. But until I see a current generation youngster starting for the first team a la Terry I wouldn't believe it. Right now it seems as if we're just buying every youngster that has got potential just to sell him at a profit to make our books look pretty.

This 100%

Despite fully believing players like Chalobah and (in particular) Piazon have the potential to be works class players, I'm far from convinced that they'll EVER get regular minutes in the first team

by Soul Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:45 pm

Shed wrote:
Soul wrote:Instead of giving him a proper chance to develop him into the first team we kept on signing established stars and loaned him out of any confidence he had left in himself.

Had he any respect for himself, he would have kicked on on his loans like scores of other players do all over the world, knowing that regardless of whether he had a future at Chelsea or not, he would be playing football somewhere, and that it would be in his best interests to develop his very obvious talent to its highest potential. As it is now, not even the likes of Vitesse and Lazio want him. That's no one's fault but his own.

That's a factor as well, true. But we can't discount the number of young careers, like Kakuta, who Chelsea mismanaged themsleves out of a first team opportunity by their own transfer dealings.

by Kick Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:32 am

At the end of the day, what does it matter where we get our talent from?

Buying them or grooming them?

by Shed Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:42 am

This coming from the person who was saying last year that we should integrate Bertrand over signing a LB Laughing

by Kick Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:44 am

Bertrand is top class :coffee:

by Shed Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:44 am

by Kick Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:09 am

Being linked with Rayo deal now, possible it's permanent with no transfer fee.

by Shed Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:11 am

Would take that just to get shot of him already.

by Kick Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:12 am

Agreed, at this point, he has no future here, just release him.

by Shed Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:13 am

So much potential wasted.

Oh well, now we have Boga Wink

by Kick Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:18 am

And Baker

by Shed Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:21 am

I mentioned Boga because they're similar players and he's often likened to Kakuta when he was still
a youth Clubber

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