When Chelsea bought Thibaut Courtois to Actual Madrid for £31.5m in summer time 2018 they most likely did not envision that they’d spent over 5 instances that quantity in the hunt for a dependable substitute.
Enzo Maresca has arrived to seek out over 100 million kilos’ price of keepers to select from – and that is simply between three choices who did not make a lot as an look for the membership final season.
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Chelsea’s rotating forged of goalkeepers since Thibaut Courtois left
Kepa Arrizabalaga struggled for kind after his £71.6m transfer
Kepa Arrizabalaga was the fast substitute for Courtois, signed for £71.6m from Athletic Membership only a day earlier than his predecessor’s transfer to the Bernabeu was formally introduced.
Kepa performed usually all through his first two seasons on the membership, however fell out of favour in 2020 after a poor run of kind – and an notorious incident within the 2019 EFL Cup remaining through which he refused to be substituted for a looming penalty shootout towards Manchester Metropolis (which Chelsea then misplaced).
Kepa got here again into competition below Graham Potter in 2022/23, however was despatched away to interchange Courtois once more final season, becoming a member of Actual Madrid on mortgage after the Belgian picked up an damage.
Edouard Mendy changed Kepa Arrizabalaga (Picture credit score: Getty)
Taking up from Arrizabalaga throughout his outing of the aspect was Edouard Mendy, who arrived within the prolonged summer time 2020 switch window from Rennes for a reported £22m.
Mendy was typically dependable for a superb couple of years, however some high-profile errors meant he misplaced his place to Arrizabalaga in 2022/23, with Mendy beginning simply 12 instances.
He made the transfer to Saudi aspect Al Ahli final summer time, with Chelsea not less than clawing again £16m as a switch price for his companies.
Gabriel Slonina is but to seem for Chelsea (Picture credit score: Quinn Harris/Getty Photographs)
Within the meantime, Chelsea had signed United States worldwide Gabriel Slonina from Chicago Fireplace for a reported £8.1m, although they despatched him again to his outdated membership instantly after signing him to see out the MLS season.
Then nonetheless a young person, Slonina went out on mortgage once more to Belgian aspect Eupen final season.
He tended aim for your entire marketing campaign, bar lacking one relegation play-off recreation with a knock, however was unable to forestall them ending backside of the league and dropping into the second tier.
Robert Sanchez arrived from Brighton final yr
Chelsea made a double-dip into the switch marketplace for but extra goalkeepers final summer time, with Brighton’s Spanish worldwide Robert Sanchez and New England Revolution’s Serbian worldwide Djordje Petrovic arriving for a mixed £37.5m together with add-ons.
Sanchez value twice as a lot, however ended up taking part in fewer video games after lacking virtually your entire second half of the season with damage issues. When he was briefly slot in February-March, his solely involvement was as an unused substitute within the league and beginning within the FA Cup.
That meant Petrovic saved his place after being referred to as into motion in December, taking part in each minute of Chelsea’s final 22 video games of the Premier League season, in addition to of their FA Cup semi-final defeat to Manchester Metropolis and Carabao Cup remaining loss to Liverpool.
Filip Jorgensen is the most recent Chelsea goalkeeper to reach (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Chelsea have now dipped into the switch marketplace for one more goalkeeper, with Villarreal’s Filip Jorgensen confirmed earlier this week for a price believed to be round £20m.
That takes Chelsea’s complete spending on goalkeepers since 2018 to one thing within the area of £160m, with Mendy the one one of many six arrivals in that point to have left in any respect, not to mention for a switch price.
Simply carry again Rob Inexperienced on a free, we noticed.
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