Chelsea apparently giving away prospects to HSV

By: Jack | June 6th, 2011

Frank Arnesen fancies him some Chelsea players, as evidenced by the latest triumvirate to join our former sporting director at his new club, HSV Hamburg.

Troubling? A bit, yes. The fees being paid, though? Pissing me right off.

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Our latest departure

Hamburg agreed deals for Michael Mancienne and Jacopo Sala last week. Today they added a third to the mix with the signing of promising 19-year-old German midfielder Gokhan Tore.

Mancienne appeared on his way out of the club regardless. Though he has shown flashes of being potentially a solid Premier League footballer, his time on loan at Wolverhampton did little to instill confidence in me that he had the ability to hold down even a substitute place at Chelsea. And at 23, he isn’t exactly on the trajectory to be a world beater even though defenders are known to peak late. His selling I can understand.

I also don’t really have a problem with the Sala deal. Though he is still young, at 20 years, Sala never caught me as a player who would break into this team in its current structure. Good player, but good players really don’t cut it at Roman’s Chelsea.

Tore is a different story. The kid tore it up for the reserves to close the season, and looked to have a decent shout to see some sporadic time in the first team next term. Now we’ll never know. Perhaps he was interested in a move back to the home country? That’s fine and all, but we could have at least attempted to pry a little more money from Hamburg for his services.

The same can be said for all three of these young players. Chelsea received shit – yes, shit – for these guys.

Sala moved for a reported €100,000. Are you kidding me? We had to have paid more for him than that. And then you factor in all the money the club’s spent on him – salary, training, etc. – and we must’ve taken a hit on an embarrassing scale on this sale. Ridiculous. Mancienne’s fee is said to be around £1.75 million. Garbage. Didn’t Wolves offer something like 4m last season for him? I’m baffled. Tore, meanwhile, was sold for about £1m, though I reckon it was a bit less than that.

Twitter account @dan_bu, a go-to source on all things Hamburg, said earlier today that the Germans paid a combined €2.5 million for the three players. I’m sorry, but that’s fucking insane. Insane, but not surprising considering the mindless drones in charge of this club. Roman, what the hell? Fire the fuck out of these guys and get some knowledgeable, football-savvy businessmen in to replace them. Now.

I have a feeling we’ll be waiting a while for this to happen, though. In the meantime, we’ll just watch a couple more prospects waltz their way out of the club for peanuts. Fun.

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Sujahmed

I'm really sad that we let Tore leave. He had talent and tenacity for English Football. As we don't have a manager at the moment who exactly is making these crazy decisions? Wouldn't it have made sense to let the new manager assess any young outgoing players? The whole youth Academy development is messy and disjointed. We should choose 5/6 youngters and give them playing time in fist team, and have a system of play throughout the club for all levels. GET ORGANISED ROMAN.
Duxil

should buy neymar,sniejder instead
Yoshi

Give Josh Mceachran on season long to Wenger. He'll mold him into a smashing midfielder, then we get him back and start kicking Arsenal's ass for the rest of Mceachran's Chelsea career. LOL
Yoshi

Chelsea has become HSV's unofficial feeder club? What a shame!!!
Devin Anand

Fucking hell, I can't believe we let Tore go. Mark my words, that kid will go on to be a star.
JG

Seems Hamburg Arsenal'ed you guys.
Kk0ntraa

If thats the case Mr X, then I can calm down, lets say we get neven kagawa and gøtze back?
ph0bolus

Might as well just scrap the academy, because it's useless to CFC. We buy young, keep them for a couple of years after they have developed and then sell at an even lower price than when we bought them..

I was really hoping to see Tore at least hit the bench for the first team next season...The guy is a winger who plays on the right, and what do we need? A right winger.
Seth

i feel the same. we just don't seem to pay any attention to youth prospects. McEachran got some minutes last season, but I would have loved to see him get more considering the state of our midfield. Borini just left, Sturridge fully deserves first team football and will probably leave in search of it if he doesn't get it at the Bridge, Bruma is linked to HSV, these 3 boys mentioned above are all gone, Kakuta has rumors floating around. It's insane how little Roman and the other suits seem to care about the youth teams. I know this is the typical example, but Barca just won their 3rd La Liga and 2 CL in 3 years, with something like 70% of their first team being youth prospects. For fucks sake. It's getting embarrassing.
Amen

Fuck off Arnesen !!
Cz

What hamberg talents? All their players are former Chelsea academy...
Guest

Sorry, I.m a litlle tired, was thinking about dortmund, I can agree with Cz Hamburg has nothing big in their talent bag do they?
Mr. X

Did it hit you that the reason we gave away these players was create a
positive relationship with Hamburg. We could be entitled to first
picking of Hamburg's talents.
Mr. X

Did it hit you that the reason we gave away these players was create a positive relationship with Hamburg. We could be entitled to first picking of Handburg's talents.
Buzzi

Wow, it was bothering me already, and to know it was for that little...The thing that's really been worrying me is if it happened to someone like McEachran...That would truly suck, the youngsters need their playing time next season if we have any hope of keeping them, or want any point to our academy and reserves at all!