Chelsea’s senior squad has grown to 46 this summer season – with an astonishing eight of them being goalkeepers.
For the reason that arrival of Clearlake Capital as new house owners at Chelsea, the membership have gone into hyperdrive practically each switch window.
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In complete, the Blues have bought 35 gamers and spent round £1.2billion together with nine-figure sums on Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo and hefty charges on Wesley Fofana, Mykhailo Mudryk and Marc Cucurella.
However of these 35 gamers signed, 4 of them have been goalkeepers – Robert Sanchez, Dorde Petrovic, Gabriel Slonina and latest addition Filip Jorgensen.
The quartet have price Chelsea round £72m – becoming a member of the opposite 4 goalkeepers within the senior squad Kepa Arrizabalaga, Lucas Bergstrom, Marcus Bettinelli and Eddie Seashore.
Kepa, who was purchased in 2018 underneath the earlier regime of Roman Abramovich’s, price as a lot as all 4 – £72m from Athletic Bilbao.
And regardless of their efforts, Chelsea are struggling to dump the Spaniard, who nonetheless has two years left on his contract.
It provides Enzo Maresca a serious downside on who his No. 1 selection shall be going into the brand new season whereas Sanchez has been given the gloves in pre-season.
Former boss Mauricio Pochettino had dropped the Spaniard halfway by way of the marketing campaign final 12 months to provide Petrovic an opportunity between the sticks.
However the Serbian has been relegated down the pecking order, probably as little as third after the arrival of Jorgensen from Villarreal this summer season.
And Chelsea usually are not simply bloated within the goalkeeping division and nonetheless have greater than sufficient gamers to fill 4 beginning XIs.
Some gamers have been linked with strikes away, together with Conor Gallagher, who talkSPORT understands has been instructed to depart, and Trevoh Chalobah, who was left at dwelling for Chelsea’s pre-season tour of america.
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Romelu Lukaku is excessive on Napoli’s want listing whereas there are rumours Ben Chilwell might be allowed to depart, in addition to Armando Broja.
However even when all 5 gamers depart the membership, they may nonetheless have 41 gamers on their books with seven becoming a member of this summer season.
In addition to Jorgensen in purpose, Chelsea have signed Renato Veiga, Marc Guiu, Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor, Caleb Wiley, Tosin Adarabioyo and Omari Kellyman.
Talking about Gallagher, Maresca was guarded however did concede that the membership and the participant are in conversations.
“In the meanwhile, there is no replace on that,” Maresca mentioned.
“The one factor I can say is that he was involved with the membership to discover a resolution. I don’t assume it’s one thing new.
“In soccer, each summer season, totally different golf equipment have some issues with some gamers, after which on the finish, they discover a resolution and everyone seems to be comfortable. Hopefully the identical can occur on this scenario.”
Chelsea’s 46-man squad
1. Robert Sánchez2. Axel Disasi3. Marc Cucurella4. Tosin Adarabioyo5. Benoît Badiashile6. Levi Colwill7. Raheem Sterling8. Enzo Fernández10. Mykhailo Mudryk11. Noni Madueke12. Filip Jörgensen13. Marcus Bettinelli14. Trevoh Chalobah15. Nicolas Jackson16. Lesley Ugochukwu17. Carney Chukwuemeka18. Christopher Nkunku19. Armando Broja20. Cole Palmer21. Ben Chilwell (vice-captain)22. Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall23. Conor Gallagher (third captain)24. Reece James (captain)25. Moisés Caicedo27. Malo Gusto28. Đorđe Petrović29. Wesley Fofana31. Cesare Casadei32. Tyrique George34. Josh Acheampong36. Deivid Washington37. Omari Kellyman38. Marc Guiu40. Renato Veiga41. Ângelo Gabriel42. Alfie Gilchrist45. Roméo Lavia47. Lucas Bergström50. Eddie Seashore— Gabriel Slonina— Kepa Arrizabalaga— Bashir Humphreys— Caleb Wiley— Tino Anjorin— David Datro Fofana— Romelu Lukaku
