The Ghana international has hailed his young team-mate as the benchmark for youngsters to aim for and has compared his transfer to Schalke to a relationship with a woman

The Chelsea and Manchester United veterans are the highest-profile names to fail to make the cut as the Premier League's top teams finalise their group-stage rosters

The 26-year-old has responded angrily after the coach jokingly questioned the Ghanaian's decision to move to Gelsenkirchen

The Chelsea youngster says that his former Blues team-mate helped convince him to make the switch to Anfield in a season-long loan, which was finalised on deadline day

The energetic midfielder has decided to leave the Ligue 1 champions as he felt he no longer had a future at the club