One is my club, I want to develop those players, and I want to be in the beginning at least, until I have everything ready, I want to spend as much time to develop those kids as possible.

He would end his international career with 81 caps and seven goals. In 2000 Thomas was traded to the MetroStars for Mike Duhaney partially to help support Lothar Matthäus' adjustment to the United States. He moved to Kaiserslautern in 1988 and helped them to the German Cup in 1990 and the Bundesliga title in 1991.