{"id":132670,"date":"2025-08-09T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132670\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:08:09","slug":"850000-a-month-too-rich-for-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132670\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a3850,000 a month too rich for Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea\u2019s summer has gone really well in terms of continuing to improve their squad.<\/p>\n

They shifted a lot of players they wanted to shift, improved in a lot of positions and increased their depth.<\/p>\n

Of course the injury to Levi Colwill has been a setback<\/a>, but it was only to be expected. Thanks to the progress across the board, they\u2019re in a position to deal with it before the season kicks off.<\/p>\n

Keeper remains big question for Chelsea<\/p>\n

There is still one big question mark though \u2013 in goal.<\/p>\n

Time and again we\u2019ve heard that the club are happy with the options they\u2019ve got, but two things hugely undermine that.<\/p>\n

Firstly the performances of Robert Sanchez and Filip Jorgensen, who both have games and moments in games where they look like they\u2019re going to ruin things for their team. Despite a good season overall, there\u2019s no doubt they now look like the weakest part of the team, and the one that could most easily be upgraded.<\/p>\n

Secondly, the attempts Chelsea made to sign Mike Maignan earlier this summer<\/a>, showing they\u2019re not as convinced as they say.<\/p>\n

Links to elite, high price keeper sound ficticious<\/p>\n

These flaws mean that the Blues continue to be linked with new goalkeepers, with today\u2019s example the return of chatter about Gigi Donnarumma.<\/p>\n

ESPN claim<\/a> the PSG stopper has already been the subject of offers from the Blues and Man U. The Italian keeper wants a raise on his \u00a3850k a month wages, and the Parisians aren\u2019t willing to give it to him.<\/p>\n

The rumour may as well end there. If PSG aren\u2019t going to pay it, nor are Chelsea. The sporting directors have spent a lot of effort in trying to bring down our wages bill, and still have the likes of Raheem Sterling and Ben Chilwell stuck on it.<\/p>\n

The last thing they\u2019re likely to do now is add a goalkeeper on massive wages.<\/p>\n

We may yet sign a goalkeeper \u2013 just don\u2019t expect it to be Donnarumma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea\u2019s summer has gone really well in terms of continuing to improve their squad. They shifted a lot…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-132670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115000856267178050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}