Former Chelsea man Jeffrey Bruma has insisted he doesn’t regret his time at the club, despite just 15 appearances in five years.
[PSV Fans cover comments](https://www.psvfans.nl/jeffrey-bruma-kon-naar-spaanse-grootmacht-hadden-zich-gemeld/) from the 33-year-old today made on the Red and White podcast. He was discussing his career and his move to Chelsea.
Bruma is now retired after a career that took him all around Europe. He started in Feyenoord’s youth side before a move to Chelsea U18s in 2007. He spent the next few years heading out on loan, with Leicester and Hamburg before a €3.5m move to PSV Eindhoven.
Spells at Wolfsburg, Schalke, Mainz, Kasimpasa, Heerenveen and RKC Waalwijk followed before he brought things to an end in September.
His time at Chelsea will not be remember with any fondness, with just 10 appearances totalling 471 minutes in the first team while he was there. Indeed, few are unlikely to remember that the centre-back was ever at Stamford Bridge.
He, though, isn’t one of those people and instead insists he has absolutely no regrets about joining Chelsea as a youngster. That’s despite the somewhat miserable numbers involved.
“We played a small tournament in Madrid with Feyenoord’s Under 15s. A week later, I got a call from my agent that Chelsea and Real Madrid had contacted me,” he said about his initial move.
“Then we flew to London to talk to Frank Arnesen (then head of Chelsea’s youth development, ed.). It was completely informal. That’s when I decided to go for it.
“Pure feeling, I don’t know why. Real Madrid felt very far away. Chelsea felt warmer. I had four fantastic years there, won the championship, and played fifteen matches for the first team.”