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For those that want to know how Penders is doing. 

He is currently playing for the first team of Genk. 

They are first in the Belgian competition and still in the Belgian Cup. 

Here are a couple of highlights from Genk in 2025. Obviously because these are match highlights you can't really see how his footwork is. But it is one of his better traits. Together with staying focus 90 min. As Genk is a dominant team like Chelsea. 

Sometimes he barely has anything to do all game. But when we call on him. Here is there. 




 
4 minutes ago, Night-T said:

For those that want to know how Penders is doing. 

He is currently playing for the first team of Genk. 

They are first in the Belgian competition and still in the Belgian Cup. 

Here are a couple of highlights from Genk in 2025. Obviously because these are match highlights you can't really see how his footwork is. But it is one of his better traits. Together with staying focus 90 min. As Genk is a dominant team like Chelsea. 

Sometimes he barely has anything to do all game. But when we call on him. Here is there. 

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Not ready .. doesn’t push the balL to the side when shot stopping .. big weakness this one 

 
Not saying he is ready yet for Chelsea. Obviously he still has a lot to learn as he is only 19. The above is more for those that have no idea of his current situation, that he is on the right track. I hope they give him a loan to a dominant team in a top competition next year. Like they did with Courtois, who also came from Genk.

 
Jangz said:
Not ready .. doesn’t push the balL to the side when shot stopping .. big weakness this one 
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This is a big problem we have throughout the squad. Lots and lots of talented players who need game time to develop but at the same time isnt ready to be a starter for Chelsea. The limit on foreign loans really screwed us I think, which should have led to us shifting the strategy slightly - which of course we haven’t

I worry now that we’ll throw Penders straight in there, long before he’s ready, which is very unlikely to go well and is more likely to ruin his Chelsea career for good. Because if you believe Penders is THE guy in a season or two, what do you do now? Spend a large chunk of our increasingly limited transfer kitty on yet another temp goalie? Or stay with Sanchez/Jørgensen/Petrovic/Slonina/Kepa(!) in the hope that one of them can be on CL level all of a sudden?

Or go big on a world class goalie, if we can get one, which renders the whole Penders project meaningless and means that we cant address all the other problems we have in the squad like centre half and striker? 
 

The SD’s (and Ben Roberts) have put us in such an awful situation, littering the squad with expensive mediocre players financed by Cobhams finest

We are run by classless and clueless idiots - the only saving grace is that I cant see a way they’re making money on this so eventually they’ll be gone and we can start a proper rebuild

Wow that was negative and eventually went off topic, sorry about that guys 🙂

 
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This is a big problem we have throughout the squad. Lots and lots of talented players who need game time to develop but at the same time isnt ready to be a starter for Chelsea. The limit on foreign loans really screwed us I think, which should have led to us shifting the strategy slightly - which of course we haven’t

I worry now that we’ll throw Penders straight in there, long before he’s ready, which is very unlikely to go well and is more likely to ruin his Chelsea career for good. Because if you believe Penders is THE guy in a season or two, what do you do now? Spend a large chunk of our increasingly limited transfer kitty on yet another temp goalie? Or stay with Sanchez/Jørgensen/Petrovic/Slonina/Kepa(!) in the hope that one of them can be on CL level all of a sudden?

Or go big on a world class goalie, if we can get one, which renders the whole Penders project meaningless and means that we cant address all the other problems we have in the squad like centre half and striker? 
 

The SD’s (and Ben Roberts) have put us in such an awful situation, littering the squad with expensive mediocre players financed by Cobhams finest

We are run by classless and clueless idiots - the only saving grace is that I cant see a way they’re making money on this so eventually they’ll be gone and we can start a proper rebuild

Wow that was negative and eventually went off topic, sorry about that guys 🙂
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I just mentioned the same concerns on a post in the Sanchez thread. I'm not convinced that the club plan to ever play half these players, but are more interested in trading them like assets. Quite possible that Penders will be sold on without ever joining the first team squad.

 
He seems to have been second-choice most of this season and the last, but is keeping his place of late. What's going on there?

 
He seems to have been second-choice most of this season and the last, but is keeping his place of late. What's going on there?
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Last season he was playing with the u21.

This season he started as the second goalkeeper. As Genk sold him to Chelsea and putting him in goal would have their other goalkeeper unhappy plus decrease in value.

Throughout the season it became very clear to the new genk manager (and way before that tonthe fans) that penders was a class above the other goalkeeper and since new year he has become the number 1 goalkeeper and make several crucial interventions. He did get a red card once at the end. But on return instantly got put back into the goal.

And he will be the goalkeeper for the rest of the season if he doesn't get injured.

 
do we need a goalkeeper thread?

Bart Verbruggen, 22 from Brighton is the latest keeper on the Chelsea radar.

imho we need an experienced goalkeeper and an experienced centre back. These are key positions. the problem with young players is that they can have OFF days and if that player is on the wing you can make that substitution whereas if that player is between the sticks it is more of an issue.

 
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do we need a goalkeeper thread?

Bart Verbruggen, 22 from Brighton is the latest keeper on the Chelsea radar.

imho we need an experienced goalkeeper and an experienced centre back. These are key positions. the problem with young players is that they can have OFF days and if that player is on the wing you can make that substitution whereas if that player is between the sticks it is more of an issue.
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The mere words "...from Brighton..." make me break out in hives.

 
Crazy actually that the 3 best GK’s on our books are all out on loan.

 
Reports suggest a €20m fee and a 2 year loan back to Genk.

No idea how close we actually are to signing him.

Please... Somebody make it make sense.
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Is this true

 
If Petrovic isn't number one at Chelsea next season we should give up now.
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It will come down to "BlueCo need to sell a goal keeper ; Petrovic is the only one that anyone will want to buy"

Who will actually pay money to buy Sanchez, Jorgensen, (Slonina) ?

(And Kepa's loans are probably just kicking the can down the road to the point when he leaves on a free ...)

 
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