He came, he saw, he didn’t exactly conquer, but at 26 Timo Werner’s story is far from over – The Warm-Up

WEDNESDAY’S BIG STORIES There and back again, by Timo Werner Ad Sometimes a player returning to a former club is met with an air of caution, for the attempt to relive the past can be a dangerous game, and ultimately it proves to be a solely romantic move which never quite made sense… but Timo Werner going back to RB Leipzig? Well, initially at least, it makes perfect sense. TransfersWerner secures RB Leipzig return from Chelsea on permanent deal14 HOURS AGO Werner tore it up at Leipzig from 2016 to 2020 and for his efforts he sealed a big-money move to Chelsea, with a transfer to a major European club always looking inevitable given his haul of 78 goals in 127 Bundesliga games at Leipzig – and 93 in all competitions.

And so, he came to England, he saw the difficulty in holding down a starting spot at Chelsea, and in the end he didn’t quite conquer the Premier League, ending a two-year spell with 23 goals in 89 appearances – the same tally as Kai Havertz, it has rightly been noted. But thankfully for Werner at 26 he gets to chance to press the reset button and rebuild with the majority of his career still ahead of him.

Not every player gets that opportunity after sealing their Big Transfer, and he is far from being a bad player. Heck, he seemed to do everything right until finally through on goal, and there was always a sense he was just games away from a confidence-boosting run of goals, but for that you need regular football – which he just wasn’t going to get at Chelsea – and a little more fortune.