The primary motivation for young players should not be money. The Chelsea youth team is littered by young talent, youngsters with expensive cars, watches, and gold digging wags. Yet many fail to reach their potential most loaned out or sold on.
The smart ones are the ones that look at growth and career progression. While Jude is an exceptional talent he knows himself he needs to grow.
We have a growing reputation of bringing players through and giving players an opportunity. Managing players careers and generally doing right by them. He has a clear path to the first team. He will not have the same pressure being the shiney new toy like he would at the plastic clubs.
Given the choice of :
Christophe Galtier
Carlo Ancelotti (probably leaving in the summer)
Pep Guardiola
Klopp
For me it’s an easy choice. Klopp is great for a youngster. A player that wants to furfull his potential. Add to that Gerard is his idol growing up we are favourites for good reason.
There are a lot of personal choices that go into deciding where to play. Personally I wouldn’t want to play for PSG, Newcastle or Man City because of their ownership. I’d ideally avoid living in London because I hate the place. I’d consider Madrid or Barcelona but I do find Spanish football to be tedious and I don’t trust the ownership of either team to not throw me under the bus if the team doesn’t win. So if I was in Bellingham’s shoes my only real choices would be Liverpool or Munich.
Someone with a different value set, family, traditions, cultural interests etc would have different answers.
That’s fair and in the same time pretty different to the vast majority of football players.
Some of those factors are either not so important or not important at all in their decision making. Some are even one of the advantages of those clubs.
I know, I’d like to think like that, but as a young player looking at the two clubs, they are moving up with a new manager who seems to be addressing the core issues. We have stagnated this season and we have an aging squad with some problems.
Of course, as a Liverpool fan I hate to admit that they are anything other than shit, but the reality is that they have momentum at the moment and we don’t. That could all change and hopefully it will, but it’s just how I see it right now.
Yeah, this is nonsense. I mean, iit’s based on 3 mths of football. Manure have a long way to go to be challenging for the EPL and champions league. ETH has them looking better but not much.
Need to factor in any woman in his life, and hope she doesn’t have too much influence over him.
Lots of players over the years who would have prospered at north west clubs, but chose London, probably to keep their women happy.
I doubt there are many footballers these days who’d make their choice based on principles over ownership by the middle east and their human rights behaviour.
Classic example is Sterling the hypocrite.
Happy to promote anti discrimination in a series of TV adverts, but equally happy to take 200k a week from Abu Dhabi.
