He'll most likely be loaned again as soon as he comes back.
The thing with him is that he's still trapped in the mindset of an 18 year old who enjoys puppy protection, in a manner of speaking. It's not like he lacks technique or basic understanding of the game. It's just that he's too nice of a person to withstand the pressure at the absolute top-level.
The club should sell (and not loan) him to a team so he can settle a bit and work on himself, with a manager who appreciates his talent but also his character and understands that he needs special treatment to excel. I mean, the most important/decisive years of his career are just around the corner and I'd be a shame to see this guy go to waste.
Jurgen Klopp is the man for the job by the sounds of things!
Hmmm, interresting thought. Bojan would fit there quite nicely I think. God damn, now that I think about it, we could even swap him for Thomas Meißner and solve our CB problem in the long term.
2 things blocked Bojan out along with his own lack of improvement: Messi moving to false 9 in the end of 2009/2010 and Villa signing just few months after that. Villa came back with a WC and Messi.. was just being Messi. Name one player who could dislodge them and Bojan had troubles with confidence to begin with.
Instead of taking one of their established CB we should gamble on a youth player?
Oh well at least it'll be almost free.
Yeah, would love to see him at Dortmund
1. Meißner is not a youth player but a part of the first squad. He wasn't even in Dortmunds' youth-ranks but in those of Mainz 05.
2. I said "in the long term"
3. Buying an experienced CB and swapping Bojan for Meißner aren't mutually exclusive.
What was your point again ?
Loan him to Liverpool or sell him to Liverpool if possible.
Moving from Serie A to PL will just finish him as a player. It's like getting KO'd by Mike Tyson and facing George Foreman next.