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Gokhan Tore’s Premier League Return Should Be a Lesson for Chelsea’s Youngsters
- Updated: August 22, 2016
LONDON STADIUM, LONDON — The fortunes were mixed for two players with connections to Chelsea on Sunday.
On loan at Bournemouth from the Blues, Nathan Ake watched from the sidelines for 79 minutes at London Stadium, only subbing in against West Ham following Harry Arter’s red card. During the 11 minutes Ake was on the pitch, the Cherries lost the game, thanks to Michail Antonio’s header five minutes from time. Ake wasn’t at fault, but it still proved a debut to forget for the 21-year-old.
The cross that set up Antonio at the far post was delivered by Gokhan Tore, a summer signing for the Hammers from Besiktas.
It was great to win the first Premier League game at London Stadium #premierleague #win #bjk #gt17 #gökhantöre pic.twitter.com/ivezN8d533
— Gökhan Töre (@Gokhan_Tore7) August 21, 2016
Tore is a former member of Chelsea’s youth team. He never made a first-team appearance at Stamford Bridge, and after two years at the club, he followed former academy director Frank Arnesen to Hamburg in 2011. We thought that would be the last we heard of the Turkish midfielder in English football, yet here he is, making a good early impression with West Ham.
Tore hasn’t left Chelsea and disappeared into the ether; he’s carved out a career.
It helps that he’s familiar with his current manager, Slaven Bilic, having played under him in Turkey, but it’s everything Tore has done since leaving England om 2011 that is important. He’s taken the scenic route to make it back to the Premier League, showing that sometimes it’s best to leave a big club when the opportunity presents itself.
Had Tore stayed at Chelsea in 2011, there’s no telling where he would be now. Given the business model that has dictated the club’s approach to youth development in recent years, we can confidently speculate loan moves would have been a common theme for him.
What would that have done for Tore’s overall development? Would he even still be at Chelsea? Would it have made him a Premier League player in 2016? Five years ago, he didn’t want to hang around to find out, and now Tore has the answer.
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