This is the best news of the day.  71M  waste of a purchase. The worst Goalie in the EPL . Thank you Real. Hopefully you  sign him. Any money Chelsea gets for Kepa is a steal.  These are the type of purchases you write off as a bad debt.  Never in my life have i ever seen a goalie for Chelsea so bad as Kepa, who can never ever learn to concentrate or save a long ranger. The weakest link, finally gone 

Edited August 12, 20232 yr by KokeFran96

7 minutes ago, KokeFran96 said:

This is the best news of the day.  71M  waste of a purchase. The worst Goalie in the EPL . Thank you Real. Hopefully you  sign him. Any money Chelsea gets for Kepa is a steal.  These are the type of purchases you write off as a bad debt.  Never in my life have i ever seen a goalie for Chelsea so bad as Kepa, who can never ever learn to concentrate or save a long ranger. The weakest link, finally gone 

Marco Ambrosio thanks you for the vote of confidence.

Is anyone game with Kasper Schmeichel?

2 minutes ago, loz said:

Marco Ambrosio thanks you for the vote of confidence.

The Italian Ryan Giggs...ahh, the memories!

Just now, Mod said:

Is anyone game with Kasper Schmeichel?

Yep.

Or Navas.

I would even be ok with Lloris or De Gea (as a back up number 2)

1 minute ago, nonotnowjim said:

The Italian Ryan Giggs...ahh, the memories!

You're thinking of Ambrosetti.  He may have been better in nets than Ambrosio though

2 minutes ago, loz said:

You're thinking of Ambrosetti.  He may have been better in nets than Ambrosio though

Ross Turnbull is another that springs to mind

9 minutes ago, loz said:

You're thinking of Ambrosetti.  He may have been better in nets than Ambrosio though

Really weird keeper situation we had that season behind Carlo, almost felt like an outer body experience.

Neil Sullivan, Marco Ambrosio and Jurgen Macho (who if I recall correctly had a monster game for Sunderland against us the season before). All got released the following summer.

Edited August 12, 20232 yr by Argo

24 minutes ago, KokeFran96 said:

This is the best news of the day.  71M  waste of a purchase. The worst Goalie in the EPL . Thank you Real. Hopefully you  sign him. Any money Chelsea gets for Kepa is a steal.  These are the type of purchases you write off as a bad debt.  Never in my life have i ever seen a goalie for Chelsea so bad as Kepa, who can never ever learn to concentrate or save a long ranger. The weakest link, finally gone 

I don't particularly rate him, but I take it you're quite a young fan.

Edited August 12, 20232 yr by WhiteWall

Is that Roger the Dodger? He started good!

18 minutes ago, Mod said:

Is anyone game with Kasper Schmeichel?

Great #2 and a voice in the dressing room. 

Les Fridge always kept a cool head in goal for us 

32 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

I don't particularly rate him, but I take it you're quite a young fan.

Here we go again .  Ed de Goey was better .I can rant on  a poor goalie and mind you I have been a Chelsea fan since 1993.  Now do the math .

Edited August 12, 20232 yr by KokeFran96

I think we should try to get Pope or Daniel Iversen

14 minutes ago, KokeFran96 said:

I think we should try to get Pope or Daniel Iversen

Are you mad?

No chance Pope is available and no chance he’s leaving Newcastle for us. They’d also want a massive fee.

Iverson is bang average

Edited August 12, 20232 yr by 19seventyone

2 minutes ago, KokeFran96 said:

Here we go again . I can rant on  a poor goalie and mind you I have been a Chelsea fan since 1993.  Now do the math .

Okay that makes sense although I would argue that Beasant and Kharine were no better than Kepa which would of been within your supporting era. He certainly isn't the worst keeper that we've had overall, but I do agree it was a monumental waste of money paying the amount we did for him. There clearly had been no due diligence done because he was recruited on the basis of being a ball playing keeper which he has never been.

Whilst I welcome a change of keeper the timing of this on the eve of the first game of the season potentially leaving Sanchez to make his debut against the scouse having not played a competitive match for 6 months is so potentially destructive that there must be an underlying reason which may well be money related as mentioned elsewhere.

10 minutes ago, KokeFran96 said:

I think we should try to get Pope

We've got more chance of getting the actual Pope 

5 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Okay that makes sense although I would argue that Beasant and Kharine were no better than Kepa which would of been within your supporting era. He certainly isn't the worst keeper that we've had overall, but I do agree it was a monumental waste of money paying the amount we did for him. There clearly had been no due diligence done because he was recruited on the basis of being a ball playing keeper which he has never been.

Whilst I welcome a change of keeper the timing of this on the eve of the first game of the season potentially leaving Sanchez to make his debut against the scouse having not played a competitive match for 6 months is so potentially destructive that there must be an underlying reason which may well be money related as mentioned elsewhere.

He played against us and United in April and played well both times. It was getting dropped again after that then still not getting back in even after Steele allowed Everton to score 15% of their season tally in one match that caused the issues that culminated in him leaving.

Who is Madrid's backup keeper? Apparently not trusted to deputise for Courtois.

1 minute ago, Valerie said:

Who is Madrid's backup keeper? Apparently not trusted to deputise for Courtois.

Young Ukrainian lad called Lunin

So whos our number 2 then? If sanchez is our number 1...even if we did get a number 2 what do we do when kepa comes back next year? 

 

11 minutes ago, Conte said:

So whos our number 2 then? If sanchez is our number 1...even if we did get a number 2 what do we do when kepa comes back next year? 

 

We're in the market for a reserve keeper. As for Kepa - we've got 12 months to figure out that little problem.

18 minutes ago, Conte said:

So who's our number 2 then? If sanchez is our number 1...even if we did get a number 2 what do we do when kepa comes back next year? 

 

As it stands, probably Lucas Bergstrom !

Scott Carson or Brad Friedel.

IF only we had a time machine we could sign Peter Borota. Goalkeeper, Artist, Prisoner . . . Legend.