As I said in my striker article today, the goalkeeper position is one of the main positions on the pitch that Chelsea have to absolutely get right.
So far, they have spent £66m on signing new goalkeepers (including the pending arrival of Filip Jorgensen), and they still haven’t got it right.
Maybe Jorgensen turns out to be that guy, but we do not have a standout number one from spending £66m, for me that is just a fact, but a really lame fact.
How can you not sort out the goalkeeper position of all positions to be naive with?
I have to hold my words a bit on Jorgensen because it would be unfair of me to really judge him having not watched enough of him to form that judgement. I will obviously be fully behind him and truly hope he succeeds as our club. I’m fully open minded on him and will not write him off before he’s even played for us.
But again, the facts are that this is a very young (for goalkeepers) and very inexperienced (in a top division) goalkeeper that we are once again putting our hope in. We heard all sorts of PR about the belief we had in Djordje Petrovic and how he was going to be the next best thing and had been scouted by the club since he was still playing in the Serbian league blah, blah, and blah, and I am sure we will soon be hearing similar stuff about Jorgensen. And now they apparently want to sell Petrovic after one season? Make it make sense. It’s shambolic, there’s no two ways about it.
Robert Sanchez was once again brain farting against Celtic on Saturday night, and there is no way anyone can convince me that he is a suitable Chelsea number one.
For what it’s worth, I liked some of what I’ve seen on Petrovic, but he too has a way to go before he is good enough to be Chelsea number one. He got the number one spot when Sanchez was injured and then kept it, that tells you a lot, but more about the faith our old coaching team had in Sanchez!
I’ve heard good things about Jorgensen from people who watch him play regularly…
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Author : Simon Phillips
Publish date : 2024-07-30 07:28:43
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