I don’t think he’s that big a name outside of Germany at all yet.
I hope he’s sensational but I don’t see him anywhere near VVD levels.
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I hope he’s sensational but I don’t see him anywhere near VVD levels.
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Not sure about that, he seems like a pretty big deal to me.
Can't really think of many bigger young players who aren't already at massive clubs.
Big name or not it's hard to evaluate players coming out of the German league these days as the league overall is bang average. Definitely needs to build up his strength as he is too frail for our league.
He looks like he has a wiry muscularity to me.
Like you said it was 22 years ago, recollections can differ and I also had moved to Australia by that point where this was a huge thing.
Wiki lists the teams he turned down as AC Milan, Chelsea, Man Utd, Arsenal & Barcelona and in terms of stats he posted his best ever return in league goals the season before he signed.
That’s doesn’t suggest decline or stagnation although it was a few years after he’d won young player of the year.
Hard to recall if any sense of stagnation was more to do with the Leeds team having peaked a few years earlier and that team going into its almost terminal decline.
Can’t agree with the Marineli comparison - Kewell was way more highly regarded and sought after.
Funnily enough, LFC GO is being discontinued.
I remember being a bit conflicted about signing Kewell, not because he was going downhill (I don't recall it that way and was chuffed we'd got him) but because we fairly blatantly tapped him up. That said, Leeds did get £5 mill.out of the deal.
I don't think he was going downhill, I just don't think he was quite the hot property he was a few years earlier.
It was maybe akin to Owen when he left vs Owen in 2001.
It was maybe akin to Owen when he left vs Owen in 2001.
Kewell, to be fair, turned down other offers that involved higher fees to Leeds because he didn’t want to join any other team and forced through a move to Liverpool - I think on the basis of otherwise he’d leave in a free the following season.
Leeds were desperate for cash and effectively had to accept our “lower” offer.
Don’t recall “tapping up” as such, but it was well known that Kewell was a Liverpool fan and this was his dream move.
I think Utd, after losing out to Kewell went out and spent 2.5 times the amount we paid for Kewell on a certain young Portuguese winger who turned out to have decent career.
And I don’t mean Nani.
It was around the same era when we had a summer of Bowyer rumours.
