De Bruyne?

TRUE BLUE NO1 said:
Mourinho: De Bruyne's mentality too weak for Chelsea

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892...ource=TW&utm_medium=en_gb&utm_campaign=MouKDB

The Belgian is a target for Manchester City, with the Premier League runners-up reportedly planning a £50 million bid, but the Portuguese was not impressed by the player's desire

Jose Mourinhosays he soldKevin De Bruynebecause the midfielder's mentality was not strong enough to play forChelsea.

The Belgian,who is a target for Manchester City and could be the subject of a £50 million bid from Manuel Pellegrini, left for Wolfsburg in January 2014 in an £18m deal after struggling for game time.

De Bruyne has gone on to excel in the Bundesliga, notching a record-equalling 20 assists last season to attract the interest of City - a potential move Mourinho insists he would hold no regret over.

"I am happy for him, because he is a good kid," he told reporters. "I wanted to keep him. But he couldn't handle fighting for his place in such a competitive squad.

"He told me it was not in his personality to be competing for a position in the team. He needed a team where he knows he can play every game."

Mourinho says the increased competition for places at Chelsea was not to De Bruyne's liking despite City boasting similar strength in depth with the likes of David Silva, Raheem Sterling and Jesus Navas.

He continued: "I told him, 'This is Chelsea. You are very young, you have Eden Hazard, you have Mata, you have Willian, you have Schurrle, and I cannot promise you that.'

"He told me he was not happy. He was not training very well, I was asking for more and he was saying, 'I can't give you more. This is just my way'.

"So yes. I accept that if this his mentality and that if it is his choice to go, it is better for Chelsea to make a good deal.

"We sold him, made our money and it was fantastic because we bought him cheap and sold him for a fantastic price. Now Wolfsburg, if they make a fantastic deal, that is good for them."
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Seeing as that he sold him in the same window it's unlikely he would have been competing for the same spot.

Maureen knows this is going to bite him on the arse and he's panicking a little i think, more mind game bollocks, which usually means trying to cover his back.
 
Mourinho has let some big and promising talents leave Chelsea, it's just an ego thing for him. Schurrle, Salah and De Bruyne were definitely good enough to play for Chelsea but were the anti-thesis of what Mourinho's about. They're exciting, off the cuff players who will try things and take people on by instinct. Same with Cuadrado, who has barely been given a chance despite looking fantastic when playing for Colombia. Players like Willian and Ramires seem to flourish more in the system, which is completely boring and I'm glad we dont have to watch it every week.
Even Hazard, who is obviously a fantastic player, seems inhibited sometimes by the demand for him from the manager to constantly track back and cheat to win free kicks. Given a free reign, Hazard would be completely unplayable.
Arjen Robben ended up falling out with Mourinho over his style of play but will the media ever bring these facts up? No. Granted they're champions but in the long run, I can't wait for KDB to come back to haunt him in our sky blue shirt.
 
Mourinhos comments are to save face tbh.. Chelsea sell him and then he goes on to be Bundesliga's player of the year with 20 assists... now this to me says that hes realised hes fooked up so is giving lame reasons for letting him go.. we all know that Maureen is an arrogant twat.

fookinell, if he's mentally weak and did what he did at Wolsgurg,what the fook will he be like when hes mentally strong . :)

its looking good Blues.
 
Mourinhos comments are all the evidence you ever needed that this is a done deal.

Happy days.
 
To be fair to the Chelsea manager there is little he can do with the fact that he now seems to have developed as a player which may have an impact on J.M.'s judgement when he discarded the player.

Whatever he says is unlikely to alter the already ''I'll show them'' mentality he is certain to have if he joins City.
I think there is a little of him taking note of the old Joe Mercer tactic here when his advice to hotheads was ''if you are going to retaliate make sure you do it first''.
 
Actually, if you read the full article, Mourinho isn't too critical of him at all. It's clickbait.

Basically De Bruyne wanted to go to a club where he'd play every week. I agree, a 22 year old footballer needs to be playing every week for his development.

De Bruyne is now 24, in his prime and ready to compete at a big club.
 
Chrisdunk said:
There's nothing wrong with Mourinho's comments. Some players thrive being the main man on the team others prefer secondary roles. More of an observation than criticism.
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Nothing wrong ?

The thing that's wrong, is that he's commenting at all, on the mentality of a player from another club. Usually managers wish players the best & that's it. Even Brentan hasn't done this. Once again, this is Mourinho thinking purely of himself. It isn't to help Chelsea (how can it possibly ?) it isn't to destabilise DeBruyne or City (all it could ever do is motivate them more) it is 100% purely to protect his own arse from criticism, that he may have dropped a bollock, so he undermines the character of the player instead, to deflect it.

He is an utter **** & his comments are not right at all.
 
I was bored shitless last night so trawled some stats sites to see how Sterling/De Bruyne etc rated in the last couple of seasons (also looked at Pogba/Yaya).

Hazard's stats last season are;
38apps 14gls 100chances created 87% pass completion 65% duels won

Pretty phenomenal.

Sterling's over the past two seasons are;
2013/14
33apps 9gls 51chances created 82% pass completion 53% duels
2014/15
35apps 7gls 75chances created 81% pass completion 52% duels

Not bad considering his age, similar goal tally but much improved in chances created.

De Bruyne
2014/15
34apps 10gls 111 chances created 75% pass completion
Weaker league but really good return

Nasri
last season
24apps 2gls 52chances created 90% pass completion
2013/14
34apps 7gls 91chances created 91% pass completion

Silva
32apps 12gls 93chances created 86% pass completion

Magician.

Navas
35 apps 0gls 79chances created 85% pass completion

If we sign De Bruyne - we've got a hell of a lot of creativity in the side, and a lot of goals from midfield.
 
There's a few possible dream scenarios involving players scoring winning goals which lets face it all three would be boner fide perfect (and yes I meant boner) kdb-chavs, sterling-dippers & the pog-rags lol
 
Think people need to try to understand that a bid is now actually the very last stage of the process rather than the first like it used to be.

Proper clubs only generally bid that they know will be accepted, or to force an issue/show the player the interest like with Sterling. When was the last time City got a bid rejected in a mutually beneficial transfer? Probably about 2009.
 
Neville Kneville said:
Nothing wrong ?

The thing that's wrong, is that he's commenting at all, on the mentality of a player from another club. Usually managers wish players the best & that's it. Even Brentan hasn't done this. Once again, this is Mourinho thinking purely of himself. It isn't to help Chelsea (how can it possibly ?) it isn't to destabilise DeBruyne or City (all it could ever do is motivate them more) it is 100% purely to protect his own arse from criticism, that he may have dropped a bollock, so he undermines the character of the player instead, to deflect it.

He is an utter **** & his comments are not right at all.
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Is the right answer
 
The comments of mourinho about his training mentality are quite appalling. KDB himself has always said that Mourinho never talked to him and that when he spoke about his bad training (to the press!!) it was a complete surprise. He can say that De bruyne left because he wanted more playing time, but the way he says it as the player doesn't have the mentality to compete is pretty low. He didn't get any chances after the first two weeks and then got played after a month without any rythm in a crappy league cup game on a rainy night where the whole team was shit.

The reason he couldn't compete is because Mourinho always chooses big money names, which is fine but to then make these types of comments is just trying to make yourself look better.
 
allan harper said:
Nice one jose, those comments will be fresh in kevs mind for the Chelsea game
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You never know, maybe Moaninho knows he can get in de Bruyne's head because he genuinely is mentally weak.

Or de Bruyne has matured and he will go and show what Moaninho has missed out on!
 
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