https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11223037/ 'You don't want to be on the bench thinking ''why am I not playing?''': After watching his career stall thanks to injuries and tumultuous nature of Chelsea, Callum Hudson-Odoi is feeling welcome and appreciated again on loan at Bayer Leverkusen By ROB DRAPER - UPDATED: 23:54 BST, 17 September 2022 The key moment for Callum Hudson-Odoi at the BayArena, Leverkusen, on Tuesday night came in the 87th minute, when he picked up the ball in his own half. https://i.imgur.com/4dAPuqF.jpg Diego Simeone's Atletico Madrid had been gnarly and obdurate opponents all night but, having conceded three minutes earlier, they were now a little bit open for the first time. Hudson-Odoi sensed it. Playing as a No10 — he had started the game wide left — he saw Mario Hermoso, a Simeone veteran and Spanish international, approaching. And he knew he had the speed to expose him. 'I saw him coming and I knew from earlier that, if I take a touch around him, I'm going to get past him,' the 21-year-old said later. https://i.imgur.com/KJR3zg7.jpg A shimmy and a quick stab of the ball around the Spaniard and Hudson-Odoi was off. He was making strides into the Atletico half and then saw substitute Jeremie Frimpong outside him. 'I thought, 'He's got fresher legs. Just give it to him and let him go!' Frimpong played in Moussa Diaby who was arriving at the far post to score: 2-0. The BayArena erupted. There were 25,000 there on Tuesday night but this being Germany, where fans have status and are empowered to create atmosphere, it felt like 50,000. Bayer Leverkusen needed this. They have had an awful start to the season and were sat second-bottom of the Bundesliga, so beating one of Europe's finest teams felt like a potential turning point. And it was for these moments Hudson-Odoi came here. After 90 minutes, he was substituted and universally applauded, as he had performed well and his link-up with Frimpong, which created the opening goal, was hugely encouraging. The fans behind the subs' bench stood and applauded until he acknowledged them. It was as though they wanted to be sure he felt welcome and appreciated. They can be reassured he does. The alternative for Hudson-Odoi, the man who broke Duncan Edwards' record when he made his England debut at 18 — the youngest player to do so in a competitive game — was not quite as enticing at Chelsea. At least, it wouldn't have been under Thomas Tuchel. https://i.imgur.com/Kh2kb7G.jpg What would Wednesday's Champions League game against Red Bull Salzburg at Stamford Bridge have looked like for Hudson-Odoi? If he was lucky, he would have had a seat as a privileged spectator on the subs' bench. Then, after the game, as the first-team players file through what is known as the mixed zone, the unused subs can be seen doing a late-night training session, performing shuttle runs under the deputy assistant fitness trainer. Instead, Hudson-Odoi was in Germany playing his part in a famous victory against first-rate opponents. Last Saturday he was at Hertha Berlin, under pressure to perform for a struggling team with a manager who needed a result. They got a 2-2 draw. Real football, 90 minutes worth of it, rather than the odd cameo from the bench. “这些是你想参加的比赛。像在这样的夜晚踢球是一种奇妙的感觉：你知道你正 在开始，在很多球迷的关注下，在一个巨大的气氛中，面对像马竞这样的大球队。” He is sat in a quiet corner of the bar at the hotel which had been home since the hastily arranged loan move, before he moved out to an apartment at the end of last week. Some die-hard fans and hardened executives are still drinking Weissbier as midnight approaches, but Hudson-Odoi sticks to soft recovery drinks. 'I enjoyed that!' is his summary of the evening. There's been much in the last year you suspect he hasn't massively enjoyed as he waited for regular game time. It's the quandary super clubs such as Chelsea find themselves in: what do you do with a superbly talented young player? Manchester City managed it well with Phil Foden, but Jadon Sancho went to Borussia Dortmund rather than risk the netherworld of being the glorified extra in a star-studded squad. Both were team-mates of Hudson-Odoi when England won the Under 17 World Cup in 2017. Chelsea have always used the loan system. When Mason Mount was 18, he was at Vitesse Arnhem, and, when he was 19, he was at Derby County. Reece James was at Wigan at 18. Both will be part of Graham Potter's starting XI and Gareth Southgate's World Cup plans. But when Hudson-Odoi was 18, Bayern Munich made a ￡20million bid for him. At 19, Bayern wanted him on loan with a ￡70m buy-out clause. When he was 20, Dortmund wanted him on loan. On both occasions, different managers, Frank Lampard and Tuchel, said no, because he was too good to let go — though too young, apparently, to play consistently. https://i.imgur.com/ku0mleV.jpg Hudson-Odoi has lived in that limbo for a couple of years. There have been good moments. He was on the bench for their Champions League win in 2021, but that was a vicarious experience. He played in the UEFA Super Cup and World Club Cup final wins, providing the assist for Chelsea's equaliser in Abu Dhabi. But the nadir came at the start of this season, when Tuchel didn't even have him in the squad for the opening game at Everton. “审视自己是个困难时刻：我是否做错了什麽，以至於没有入选？我永远不会说 图赫尔的坏话，他是个好人，也是一个优秀的教练，但本赛季的第一场比赛真的令人 沮丧，任何不能入选大名单的球员都能理解那种挫折。” https://i.imgur.com/eglfWP4.jpg “经常踢球能让你保持稳定，你踢的比赛越多，你的状态就越稳定，状态就会越 好。然後你感觉更有活力，你感觉更好，你觉得... 不是说你得到了公平的对待，而 是你得到了主帅的信任，可以推动你，激励你。你不想在板凳上想， '为什麽我不能 上场踢球？' 然後过了几个星期，当你能上场的时候，腿可能已经生锈了。最重要的 是要有稳定的上场时间。这就是我在这里得到的，它让我感觉更好。” “现在有比赛踢，气势回来了，我重新振作起来。新联赛、全新体验，我知道每 周都有机会去比赛，享受它，微笑着面对它，这绝对是一种新鲜的感觉。” The decision to come here was done so with the encouragement of Chelsea team-mate Kai Havertz, whose early years were spent at Leverkusen and where he remains a local hero. “哈佛兹的建议只有好话。他说 '我在这里发展得很好，球队推动了我的进步， 他们让我成为一名更好的球员，就是今天的我。' 他催促我来： '去发展你自己、做 你自己、自由。我们知道你能做些什麽。你只需要去一直展示它'。” https://i.imgur.com/O9jqA9y.jpg We're so used to parroting the line about the Premier League being the best league in the world, we forget that the best-attended is the Bundesliga. And that because fans are an intrinsic part of the social fabric of clubs, the atmosphere is invariably better. Hudson-Odoi was taken aback by the intensity of 40,000 fans at Hertha Berlin's iconic Olympic Stadium last weekend. 'It was very intense,' he says. 'The fans were crazy, a very good atmosphere. The stadium was massive.' What is also intriguing is the pitch Chelsea's new owner Todd Boehly made to Hudson-Odoi. When the loan deal was being negotiated, Tuchel was still manager. He didn't appear keen on letting him go, but Boehly met with Hudson-Odoi and understood why he needed it. Boehly had one sticking point, however: there would be no clause for Bayer Leverkusen to make the deal permanent. Hudson-Odoi is exactly the kind of player Boehly wants Chelsea to nurture. 被老板挽留是全新的体验，阿布拉莫维奇可不会这麽做，“确实很不同，当一家 俱乐部试图租借一名球员时，他们总是希望在赛季结束时能选择买断你。但伯利跟我 说： '听着，我们希望你回到这里。' ” “我仍在俱乐部的未来计画中。按照他试图建立它的方式，他试图在未来几年内 购买很多年轻球员。这表明他希望将年轻球员融入球队，帮助他们发展。” Last week's comments from Boehly at a business conference provide further understanding. He name-checked Kevin De Bruyne and Mo Salah, erroneously attributing their rise to Chelsea's academy. However, his point was more broadly well made: Chelsea had those players as youngsters and lost them because Jose Mourinho was more focused on short-term job preservation than long-term development. As such, Chelsea allowed two of the world's great players to slip through their clutches. It seems Boehly doesn't want to risk the same happening again. For all the strides Lampard made with James, Mount and Tammy Abraham, the link-up between academy and first team remained flawed. https://i.imgur.com/HfA2Brh.jpg Boehly is impressed with Neil Bath's academy but revealed there still remain unnecessary firewalls, with data not shared with the first team. Lampard helped Abraham become an international but Tuchel didn't fancy him and the club has spent ￡110m since trying to sign a centre forward. Marc Guehi and Fikayo Tomori play for England now but opted to leave Chelsea last summer to develop; this summer Chelsea spent more than ￡100m on new centre-halves because they had let two contracts run down. In this context, the appointment of Potter makes more sense. Chelsea see him as the man to build the bridge between academy and first team as a long-term manager. And so Hudson-Odoi will continue his quest in Germany for now. He is also a beneficiary of an excellent European education system and the ubiquity of the English language. 'The whole squad speak English,' he says. 'Banter is very strong!' New friendships are being made and old acquaintances will soon be renewed. In two weeks' time he will be at Bayern Munich and up against fellow former Whitgift School team-mate, Jamal Musiala. The pair grew up together in south London at Chelsea's academy. When Dortmund come, he can hook up with Jude Bellingham, a former England Under 21 team-mate. 'It's good for young talents to come here, play games and experience something new,' he says. 'Sometimes you're from London, you want to stick to that. But it's time to come and develop, try something new and be open to it.' Hudson-Odoi is properly out of the comfort zone now. And he couldn't look happier. https://bbs.hupu.com/55580367.html -- Hoddle: 'Matthew will be sitting up there looking down now and loving Chelsea being winners. He'll just love Chelsea winning.' --

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