Kevin De Bruyne reveals the moment he realised he had to leave Chelsea | OneFootball

Chelsea buy a lot of young players in order to develop them, and most of the very best eventually make it at Stamford Bridge.

Inevitably some slip through the net however, and there is no greater example than Kevin de Bruyne.

The midfielder got few chances, went on loan, got even fewer chances, and then was sold to Wolfsburg. Since then the blame for letting such a brilliant talent has been passed around many times, usually landing at the feet of Jose Mourinho, the Chelsea manager at the time.

The fact that KDB has become one of the world’s best has clearly made this a sore point for fans, much more than it was with, say, Marko Marin.

The player’s latest quotes on the reasons he left make it very clear, once again, why he felt he had to go.

“They [Chelsea] really wanted to keep me and give me a chance but I actually wanted to go to Dortmund [but that move didn’t materialise],” the Daily Mirror quote the midfielder as saying.

“I had a good feeling about that – and I always decide by feeling. I did play a bit at Chelsea, but away at Swindon in the cup… that was really dramatic.

“I hadn’t played for a month and then you have to play against a League 2 club like that. After that, it was over.”

That seems fair enough to us. Nobody ever has any hard feelings for De Bruyne, in fact there’s generally admiration for the way he realised what he needed to do, and how decisive he was in doing it.

There are surely a few players kicking themselves that they didn’t back themselves and their abilities in a similar way over the years.