Petrescu is off to HSV

[Ric Flair]

Hamburg have handed a trial to Finnish forward Tomi Petrescu.

The young Finn has been recommended to HSV by a scout and they are set to put him through his paces this week.

Petrescu has been training with his former club JJK, as he is currently without a team following his exit from Leicester.

The teenager spent three seasons with Leicester, but departed after failing to cement a regular place in the team, and he is keen to kick-start his career.

JJK chairman Janne Sarkka hopes the club have played a role in helping Petrescu secure a fresh start.

"We wanted to help Tomi to keep his fitness up and also to help him find the right links abroad," said Sarkka.

I still find this all very odd, he left to pursue educational interests in Finland and then is out on trial in Germany!! I am shocked we let him leave just as Levein arrived, it just doesn't add up.

I can see him coming back to haunt us one day, mind you that would mean we'd have to be playing in Europe and i'd settle for that

[shen]

Hamburg have handed a trial to Finnish forward Tomi Petrescu.

The young Finn has been recommended to HSV by a scout and they are set to put him through his paces this week.

Petrescu has been training with his former club JJK, as he is currently without a team following his exit from Leicester.

The teenager spent three seasons with Leicester, but departed after failing to cement a regular place in the team, and he is keen to kick-start his career.

JJK chairman Janne Sarkka hopes the club have played a role in helping Petrescu secure a fresh start.

"We wanted to help Tomi to keep his fitness up and also to help him find the right links abroad," said Sarkka.

I still find this all very odd, he left to pursue educational interests in Finland and then is out on trial in Germany!! I am shocked we let him leave just as Levein arrived, it just doesn't add up.

I can see him coming back to haunt us one day, mind you that would mean we'd have to be playing in Europe and i'd settle for that

44834[/snapback]

I sense our club made a bummer here!...

HSV is an even bigger club than Leicester, but on the other hand, it's only a trial...for now! Think we have a chance of getting him back?

[Ric Flair]

Hamburg have handed a trial to Finnish forward Tomi Petrescu.

The young Finn has been recommended to HSV by a scout and they are set to put him through his paces this week.

Petrescu has been training with his former club JJK, as he is currently without a team following his exit from Leicester.

The teenager spent three seasons with Leicester, but departed after failing to cement a regular place in the team, and he is keen to kick-start his career.

JJK chairman Janne Sarkka hopes the club have played a role in helping Petrescu secure a fresh start.

"We wanted to help Tomi to keep his fitness up and also to help him find the right links abroad," said Sarkka.

I still find this all very odd, he left to pursue educational interests in Finland and then is out on trial in Germany!! I am shocked we let him leave just as Levein arrived, it just doesn't add up.

I can see him coming back to haunt us one day, mind you that would mean we'd have to be playing in Europe and i'd settle for that

44834[/snapback]

I sense our club made a bummer here!...

HSV is an even bigger club than Leicester, but on the other hand, it's only a trial...for now! Think we have a chance of getting him back?

44836[/snapback]

The problem with Petrescu was his attitude, apparently he was lazy. There's no doubting his talent, but considering our club isn't overly bothered about the youths I imagine that he was considered a waste of resources. There's no way he'd come back here, he will end up at a big club one day. Good luck to the lad, let's hope he knuckles down.

[Mark]

He'll do well in his career, and most likely get a contract there. I'm happy for him, i'd leave if i was at this club from another country where younger players were ignored. I say were, as i hope things will change. But i'm not sure if that'll be in my lifetime

[Guest]

I still find this all very odd, he left to pursue educational interests in Finland and then is out on trial in Germany!

44834[/snapback]

It might have been a short course?

[Ric Flair]

He'll do well in his career, and most likely get a contract there. I'm happy for him, i'd leave if i was at this club from another country where younger players were ignored. I say were, as i hope things will change. But i'm not sure if that'll be in my lifetime

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Stearman and Dawson will be in soon, trust me.

[Anish]

That whole 'educational purposes' explanation by LCFC was yet more bollocks.

I hope he does do well in his career and proves all the management here how wrong they were in releasing him.

[Hullfox]

That whole 'educational purposes' explanation by LCFC was yet more bollocks.

I hope he does do well in his career and proves all the management here how wrong they were in releasing him.

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If as has been quoted that his attitude was not right do you not think that 1) The club were right to let him go and, 2) If he does well it may just be because he was given the kick up the backside that he needed to work at his chosen career by being released.

People are very quick to jump on the "our club is shit with youth" bandwagon without seeing the other side to the story.

If he was a footballing genius, he would not have been released.

[Ash]

Good luck to Tomi , i just wished we would have gave him a better chance to progress his career with us, Could of been a superstar by now

[Jonbluefox9]

The thing that annoys me is when our youth players leave and not a great deal is said a bout it. For example, my brother and me met Nicolas Priet when he first joined us and when his English was almost non-existent and he said that in his first year here he wanted to improve himself as a player in the reserves and break into the first team in a couple of seasons. At the end of his first season here he was kicked out of the back door without any major mention. He looked like a decent player when I saw him in the reserves if not a little too similar to Sticks but it annoys me that this player, that was described as a big potential by Micky Adams, was kicked out after only one season in a foreign country and is now at Doncaster Rovers. Also when people like Ahmed Deen's youth contracts run out they just leave without any recognition by the club eventhough they've been described as potentially good players. No-one from the club says if it was just because we couldn't afford to offer him a contract or he didn't develop as much as they'd hoped. And whenever the club uses a player to show how good our academy is they always chose Jordan Stewart eventhough he came through Villa's academy to begin with and then we picked him up when they let him go.

[Anish]

That whole 'educational purposes' explanation by LCFC was yet more bollocks.

I hope he does do well in his career and proves all the management here how wrong they were in releasing him.

44909[/snapback]

If as has been quoted that his attitude was not right do you not think that 1) The club were right to let him go and, 2) If he does well it may just be because he was given the kick up the backside that he needed to work at his chosen career by being released.

People are very quick to jump on the "our club is shit with youth" bandwagon without seeing the other side to the story.

If he was a footballing genius, he would not have been released.

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But do you always believe everything that others say? Unless you know Tomi personally or saw him in training or in every match that he played for LCFC, how can you be certain that he did have an attitude problem? Nobody here has given any concrete examples of that.

[Scow]

Good luck to him. I've only seen him play once in the flesh, and that was for the reserve's when he came on for the last 10 minutes to play left wing. <_<

I've seen clips of him playing in both the reserve's and the academy games, and he's certainly looked a talent, so there must be a defining reason why he's not progressed.

[Hullfox]

That whole 'educational purposes' explanation by LCFC was yet more bollocks.

I hope he does do well in his career and proves all the management here how wrong they were in releasing him.

44909[/snapback]

If as has been quoted that his attitude was not right do you not think that 1) The club were right to let him go and, 2) If he does well it may just be because he was given the kick up the backside that he needed to work at his chosen career by being released.

People are very quick to jump on the "our club is shit with youth" bandwagon without seeing the other side to the story.

If he was a footballing genius, he would not have been released.

44915[/snapback]

But do you always believe everything that others say? Unless you know Tomi personally or saw him in training or in every match that he played for LCFC, how can you be certain that he did have an attitude problem? Nobody here has given any concrete examples of that.

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But on the same basis Anish I could ask do you always believe the club is wrong?

Unless you know Tomi personally or saw him in training or in every match that he played for LCFC, how can you be certain that he did not have an attitude problem? Nobody here has given any concrete examples of that.

[Anish]

Hullfox, very original indeed.

I am sceptical when it comes to believing rumours, especially if I have no reason to believe the person that spreads the rumour.

[Teeno]

Couldn't believe how much this player was bummed despite not many people actually watching him play.

I saw him play against the team I play for Holwell Sports and he scored 4 goals, but to be fair the fact that I play for the youth team shows how poor the level of football is. He might go on to do well in his career, but we've allways had players built up to be the next big thing that have made nothing of it, I think he'll be another case.

[Buzzell]

I thought the reason he left was to study?? Ohh well good luck to the lad, he should have stayed. Hopefully he wont turn out to become a class act because if he does then we would look like fools as we let him go.

[Ric Flair]

It's common knowledge back in Finland that he's abit of a waster, they all know how gifted he is but he hasn't got the right frame of mind to make it. There's a finnish messageboard i've been reading and a few posters have been saying they've seen him about in finland getting pissed. Good lad!!!

[Buzzell]

He was abit of an piss head round hear I must say. Ive seen him quite a few times up town drinking. Fair play to the lad

[TrickyTrev]

Everone knows he was out on the piss all the time, there is no way the club could have kept him.

It is a shame because he is apparently an extremely talented player.

[Ric Flair]

Everone knows he was out on the piss all the time, there is no way the club could have kept him.

It is a shame because he is apparently an extremely talented player.

45504[/snapback]

Macca reckons he was never out on the piss before a match only afterwards, which is fair enough. I don't think his drinking was the problem, it was his lazy attitude. If it was solely down to his drinking then the club would of got rid of Elliott and Gillespie as they are both pissheads.

[TrickyTrev]

Everone knows he was out on the piss all the time, there is no way the club could have kept him.

It is a shame because he is apparently an extremely talented player.

45504[/snapback]

Macca reckons he was never out on the piss before a match only afterwards, which is fair enough. I don't think his drinking was the problem, it was his lazy attitude. If it was solely down to his drinking then the club would of got rid of Elliott and Gillespie as they are both pissheads.

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Yes but it is quite expensive to get rid of professionals on £35k a week contracts and not at all expensive to get rid of someone on a YTS constract.

I have heard lots of bad things about his attitude both on and off the pitch and I am sure they are not all true, but it is obviously the club thought he was more trouble than he was worth. I am not going to disagree with them when I don't know the ins and outs of it.

[Ric Flair]

Everone knows he was out on the piss all the time, there is no way the club could have kept him.

It is a shame because he is apparently an extremely talented player.

45504[/snapback]

Macca reckons he was never out on the piss before a match only afterwards, which is fair enough. I don't think his drinking was the problem, it was his lazy attitude. If it was solely down to his drinking then the club would of got rid of Elliott and Gillespie as they are both pissheads.

45511[/snapback]

Yes but it is quite expensive to get rid of professionals on £35k a week contracts and not at all expensive to get rid of someone on a YTS constract.

I have heard lots of bad things about his attitude both on and off the pitch and I am sure they are not all true, but it is obviously the club thought he was more trouble than he was worth. I am not going to disagree with them when I don't know the ins and outs of it.

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I know what your saying, but it appears that it was Petrescu's decision to leave and Leicester obviously didn't stand in his way. That's what it say's on some Finnish website.