Chelsea might still need to sign a new GK this summer – Talk Chelsea

One problem that Sunday’s FA Cup recreation highlighted for me was the necessity to signal a brand new primary goalkeeper in the summertime.

Each Robert Sanchez and Djordje Petrovic are respectable competitors choices, however none of them persuade me that for the time being, they’re adequate to be our primary primary going ahead and if we need to problem on the very high once more, we want an elite stopper within the sticks.

Petrovic is just not younger, he’s 24, and Sanchez is 26. For a goalkeeper you possibly can argue that this IS younger, and also you’d be right. You’d even be right saying that there’s nonetheless room and time for growth for each keepers right here, and I do truly consider that Petrovic can and can get higher. However Sanchez for me I worry simply lacks the arrogance on the ball and within the sticks to be something greater than a backup.

Petrovic I do maintain a bit extra perception in although, and I truly suppose he has performed nicely since coming on this season, and I’d be beginning him over Sanchez. However each keepers aren’t adequate distribution sensible, and for any group who need to construct up from the again and wish their goalkeeper to be comfy taking the ball in excessive strain conditions, then I don’t suppose Petrovic or Sanchez is our man.

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Who’s? Not my job to seek out him! However we’ve got individuals on this setup now utilizing knowledge to have the ability to discover the ‘good’ possibility for us. Does good even exist? Who is aware of. However there are definitely goalkeepers on the market who could be higher suited to be Chelsea primary proper now, and I really consider that is simply one other place we have to be seeking to signal on this summer season.

Chelsea have definitely been potential new goalkeepers for some time and so they do like Aaron Ramsdale at Arsenal and have been maintaining a tally of that state of affairs. Additionally they have a eager curiosity in Mike Maignan and Diogo Costa. However they’ve but to make any contact or strikes for a brand new goalkeeper, with perception in each of the stoppers they’ve.

Don’t get me flawed, I’m definitely not writing Petrovic off, however he must get quite a bit higher with the ball at his ft for me to be totally satisfied that he might be the common primary for Chelsea going ahead.

Sanchez simply considerations me all recreation and flaps at crosses, whereas I do have extra confidence with Petrovic within the sticks. Even nonetheless, while his shot stopping has been fairly good, he has additionally let in some targets that he would have felt he might have saved.

The goalkeeper place is arguably one of the vital necessary on the pitch, and I’m simply undecided that we’ve got sorted that place or not.