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Great. Lots of money but it's refreshing to see us spend and get a deal done quickly.

Almost like a throwback to the early Roman-days where we just paid whatever was needed and got it done.

 
Fans shouldn’t get worked up on the fee as the style of football requires a certain type of goal keeper. For all the talk about Pickford and Butland, they would have been a poor fit. I am very excited to see how he develops once settled, you could only argue that we could have got Allison for cheaper.

 
Spiller86 said:
I get the point your making and I'm perhaps being harsh on our executives.

Tibo may have strung us along on a merry dance about signing a new contract but it seems reasonable from all reports that this was always a risk, particularly when he haulted negotiations until the end of the season in Jan.

In that case, why weren't we managing that risk by looking at a new 'keeper then or why are we now only responding with three days to go before the opening game. We'll have a new keeper who doesn't speak the same language as any of the centre backs or the coach.

I'm happy with Kepa make no mistake, he's no Courtois yet but he could be. We've also secured Kovacic which is great. I just wonder how we can make this easier on ourselves. We seem to forever do things the hard way when some forethought could save us millions and put us in a better position. 

This summer we could have had a coach in place in June if we paid the Sarri buyout clause. We could have also had a 'keeper for a full preseason to learn the language and the system. 
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I appreciate what you are saying about the language but a keeper doesn’t take long to learn a system. Should be pretty easy for him to adapt with a few training sessions how he likes a keeper to play especially as they say he’s good with his feet and has played a similar way already 

 
Chelsea surprised with this deal. I'm so glad we weren't trying to get someone like Butland. We are known to have great keepers. That is something we have had all Roman era. 

Kepa is a young keeper and probably step or two behind Tibo but he will be great keeper I'm sure. 

Club stepped up for Sarri. 

 
evissy said:
Chelsea surprised with this deal. I'm so glad we weren't trying to get someone like Butland. We are known to have great keepers. That is something we have had all Roman era. 

Kepa is a young keeper and probably step or two behind Tibo but he will be great keeper I'm sure. 

Club stepped up for Sarri. 
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Unpopular view but the club always step up for it's managers when they align with the club's vision.

I'm an advocate of letting a manager buy players he needs but if there's a vision from the club those players should be aligned with that.

My problem with Conte was that the players he wanted were so far off the club's vision and it was obvious it was from a selfish point of view.

 
Gol15 said:
Courtois was never my favorite, after Cech I just didn't see him as that special.

City and Liverpool have a great keeper for less money, doesn't matter as long as we have Kepa that already at 23 has more experience because he got to play in bigger games for Bilbao.
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Bigger game... Is that a joke? Alisson and Ederson have been CL regulars for years while Kepa has no CL experience.

 
Orpington_Blue said:
Bigger game... Is that a joke? Alisson and Ederson have been CL regulars for years while Kepa has no CL experience.
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Europa will be a good way for him to get European football experience, then hopefully we'll be ready to tackle Champions League the season after. 

 
Orpington_Blue said:
Bigger game... Is that a joke? Alisson? and Ederson? h?ave been CL regulars ?for years while Kepa has no CL experience.
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Alisson made his CL debut for Roma last season. The season before he was behind Szczesny for the league games and only played Europa League. One Champions League campaign doesn't exactly equal 'CL regular for years.'

Ederson played 3 CL group games in his first season for Benfica and 5 in his second. 

 
EdinburghBlue said:
I just posted in the general one about our next keeper, can someone clarify if we’ve paid his release clause or he had a termination clause in his contract that he’s paid himself? 
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Posted from Skysports...

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KEPA SITUATION

Quite a complicated one, this, but let me explain...

Athletic Bilbao have announced that Kepa Arrizabalaga has bought himself out of his contract. 

This is the done thing at Athletic Bilbao; the same happened with Ander Herrera, Javi Martinez and Aymeric Laporte. 

It essentially means Kepa is now a free agent and will join Chelsea. The Blues will have paid the money to Kepa, his agent or the company who owns him in order to buy himself out of the contract.

Make sense? Good. 

 
EdinburghBlue said:
I just posted in the general one about our next keeper, can someone clarify if we’ve paid his release clause or he had a termination clause in his contract that he’s paid himself? 
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He essentially paid it himself with money we've given him/his representatives, that's how things work with Spanish clauses.

 
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EdinburghBlue said:
Ahhh I see! I didn’t release that’s how it worked over there! 
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No different from what happened with the Neymar transfer last year, when his 'people' (lawyers, agents, etc) rocked up to the Spanish federation with a rather large cheque from PSG in hand.

 
Orpington_Blue said:
When you add the Spanish taxes, the total amount of transfer would be close to £100m. Which is absolutely mental. Considering this player was available for £30m (including taxes) just 8 months back.
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Taxes are no longer required on top of release clauses in Spain. Their tax regulations changed back in October of 2016.

http://sportwitness.co.uk/no-tax-payable-spanish-buyout-clauses-leaving-man-united-free-run-griezmann/

https://www.barcablaugranes.com/2017/7/20/15990020/spanish-buyout-clauses-an-update-could-they-help-paris-saint-germain-sign-neymar-from-barcelona

 
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Osgood is Good said:
Stupid money for Alisson. Especially when we could arguably purchase both Butland and Pope for much less. Butland as No.1 and Pope as back up.
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enigma said:
a lot of money for keeper. I suspect we weren't even looking at him, maybe a new contract for Courtois is already in the works? 
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doctorblue said:
No way this guy is worth £70m...I'd take the keeper from Milan or look at Schmil or Butland...sorry but Cech is now only second keeper standard...
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Scott Harris said:
It's crazy, even more crazy when you see that he has had 1 season at the top level, and it wasn't like he was spectacular. I didn't see him do much for Roma in the Champions League, i remember him pulling the ball out of the net a lot.
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ForeverCarefree said:
For a world record fee you’d think you were talking about a world class player but I’ll be honest I’d never heard of him before.

Nuer, De Gea, Courtois etc. Those are the keepers I thought would attract a huge money bids but the sweeper/keeper fad seems to have elevated other goalkeepers recently. 
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Remember when we were linked with Alisson?

But Kepas worth it right ?

 
Valerie said:
Pleeeeaaaase let him have his last name on his shirt  :biggrin:
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You're in luck, if his Athletic shirt is anything to by.

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(full last name on his Spain shirt as well, so don't expect to just see 'Kepa.' He's Basque, not Brazilian!)

 
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