The 29-year-old has no ball to play with! Chelsea snickers, Liverpool trembles

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He was once a Bundesliga killer worth 80 million, but now he is spending his golden years on the bench. The trajectory of his fall taught the entire Premier League a lesson.

While Liverpool is worried about the continued slump of their billionaire Mr. Wirtz, a familiar "lesson from the past" is playing out a lamentable final chapter in the Bundesliga - Timo Werner, a name that has now become synonymous with "drive high, go low".

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[The golden age is abandoned, the former striker "retires" early]

The Bundesliga is in full swing in the new season, and Leipzig is at the top of the standings, but all this has almost nothing to do with Werner. The 29-year-old Werner has only had one inconsequential substitute appearance this season and has completely become the team's "transparent person". Injuries are just an excuse, a sharp decline in form is the root cause. Leipzig's team history's leading scorer reached a crossroads in his career at an age that was supposed to be at its peak.

Looking back on the past, he was the "golden bomber" who took the Bundesliga by storm. He has scored 20+ goals for four consecutive seasons, competing with Lewandowski for the Golden Boot. His worth of 80 million euros is the best proof of his strength. In the German national team, he is also the undisputed main center under coach Loew.

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[Chelsea's "magic operation", 20 million euros successfully stopped losses]

Werner's journey to the Premier League is a typical tragedy of "acclimatization". His years at Stamford Bridge exposed his technical shortcomings. The nickname "reconnaissance plane" accurately depicts the embarrassment that he can find opportunities but cannot end them. As a center, he lacks the fulcrum ability; when attacking from the side, his breakthroughs are pale and weak.

However, in this failed transfer, Chelsea Club showed amazing foresight. Before Werner's value completely collapsed, they decisively "returned" him to Leipzig for 20 million euros. The trade is now considered a textbook stop-loss case. Just imagine, if he hesitates to stay until now, Werner's worth of only 5 million euros will cause Chelsea to lose everything.

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[The myth of the "mass production" of German strikers, Liverpool is in panic? 】

Werner’s case is not an isolated one. From his and Havertz's struggling performance in the Premier League to Wirtz's "0 goals and 1 assist in 11 games" in Liverpool, a sharp question has surfaced: Is the Bundesliga data a "beautiful trap" to confuse the Premier League giants?

These attackers, who are comfortable in the Bundesliga's wide-open and wide-open tactical system, often seem at a loss once they are exposed to the higher intensity and more intensive physical confrontation in the Premier League. This phenomenon is even directly reflected in the record of the German national team - they have been eliminated from the group for two consecutive World Cups, and the chronic problem of weak forwards is closely related to this.

Now, Liverpool's Wirtz is showing similar danger signs to Werner: mediocre physical confrontation and lack of absolute speed. Will the Red Army make the same mistakes again with the huge sum of 125 million euros they spent? Werner's slide from the top to the bottom undoubtedly sounded the harshest alarm bell for Anfield. When a 29-year-old player who has no ball to play becomes a template, any club will feel a chill down their spine.