Chelsea’s pursuit of 18-year-old Genk goalkeeper Mike Penders has raised eyebrows about their recruitment coverage, with the stopper set to change into one in every of 9 goalkeepers on the membership.
Simply a few weeks in the past Chelsea added Villarreal stopper Filip Jorgensen to a squad that already contained Kepa Arrizabalaga, Marcus Bettinelli, Lucas Bergstrom, Robert Sanchez, Djordje Petrovic, Gabiel Slonina and Eddie Seashore (who has, to be honest, gone out on mortgage to Crawley).
That is a variety of gamers for a place that may solely ever have one starter – however experiences counsel that Chelsea are, in truth, not fully daft and intend to trim the ranks significantly over the remaining weeks of the switch window.
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Chelsea set for raft of goalkeeper departures
In keeping with the Each day Categorical, plans are afoot to trim their goalkeeper numbers down from the eight at present on the coaching floor to only three.
For starters, Fabrizio Romano has instructed that Penders could be saved on mortgage at Genk for the season forward on a one-year mortgage.
It has been no secret that Kepa is taken into account dispensable, and Chelsea hope to seek out an acceptable suitor for his companies.
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Kepa Arrizabalaga spent final season out on mortgage at Actual Madrid
With former Brighton primary Sanchez now again match and accessible for choice, it’s doable that deputy Petrovic may go away. The Categorical title Fiorentina and Strasbourg as potential locations, to which we’d say: what, even after the Italians signal David De Gea?
They go on that Slonina is being lined up for one more mortgage transfer having gone straight again to Chicago Fireplace after signing in 2022 after which spending final season with Belgian membership Eupen.
Bergstrom would then be Chelsea’s chosen under-21s goalkeeper, leaving Sanchez, Jorgensen and Bettinelli as their three senior goalkeepers in Enzo Maresca’s squad.
That technique looks as if it carries some threat to it, however the mortgage marketplace for goalkeepers is mostly robust – and it stays to be seen what sort of charge Chelsea would anticipate to be paid for the undesirable Kepa.
Nonetheless, for a membership that has complained about having to fulfill revenue and sustainability laws…it would not really feel like the simplest use of their accessible cash, does it?
