Kepa Arrizabalaga

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Needs to be loaned out if we're keeping Willy this season. Even if we have to subsidize his wages.

What good will it do having him on the bench?
Don't see him ever regaining form in a Chelsea shirt.
 

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Zouma is far more at fault for that goal than Kepa. His backpass was atrocious and left his keeper with far too much ground to cover. Kepa had to pull out of the challenge because if he didn't he's conceding a penalty and getting sent off.
 

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He gets to the ball before the striker, he missed it! I heard it was bad, didn't know it was that bad. Surely you got to be calling up the youth keeper at this stage. Its every game.
 

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Zouma is far more at fault for that goal than Kepa. His backpass was atrocious and left his keeper with far too much ground to cover. Kepa had to pull out of the challenge because if he didn't he's conceding a penalty and getting sent off.
He gets to the ball before the striker, he missed it! I heard it was bad, didn't know it was that bad. Surely you got to be calling up the youth keeper at this stage. Its every game.
Exactly. He was getting to that ball first but hesitated and then let it skip over his leg. It's an awful error.
 

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Zouma is far more at fault for that goal than Kepa. His backpass was atrocious and left his keeper with far too much ground to cover. Kepa had to pull out of the challenge because if he didn't he's conceding a penalty and getting sent off.
But then he decides to try to keep the ball in play instead of just kicking it out for a corner ...
 

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Zouma is far more at fault for that goal than Kepa. His backpass was atrocious and left his keeper with far too much ground to cover. Kepa had to pull out of the challenge because if he didn't he's conceding a penalty and getting sent off.
Backpass was bad but look at it again. Kepa lounges with both thighs forward before the ball reaches him. The ball reaches him with Ings about 1.5-2m behind. He could have just booted it.
 

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Zouma is far more at fault for that goal than Kepa. His backpass was atrocious and left his keeper with far too much ground to cover. Kepa had to pull out of the challenge because if he didn't he's conceding a penalty and getting sent off.
Yes and he couldn’t even be bothered chasing back
 

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Zouma is far more at fault for that goal than Kepa. His backpass was atrocious and left his keeper with far too much ground to cover. Kepa had to pull out of the challenge because if he didn't he's conceding a penalty and getting sent off.

Or he could just kick the ball.
 

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It's insane how bad he is. I haven't witnessed anything comparable, it feels like he makes a game changing mistake every single game. There have been keepers with very, very bad runs of form since I watch football but this is unprecedented. The fact that he was signed for such a sum just makes it even more unreal. Surely has to be the worst value for money transfer in the history of the game.

He should move as soon as possible. Realistically, he can't be as bad as he currently looks. It seems to be a mentality issue and I think he needs a restart very badly.
 

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It's insane how bad he is. I haven't witnessed anything comparable, it feels like he makes a game changing mistake every single game. There have been keepers with very, very bad runs of form since I watch football but this is unprecedented. The fact that he was signed for such a sum just makes it even more unreal. Surely has to be the worst value for money transfer in the history of the game.

He should move as soon as possible. Realistically, he can't be as bad as he currently looks. It seems to be a mentality issue and I think he needs a restart very badly.
He wasn't actually making clear and comedy errors last season, for all the shots he tamely let in his one saving grace is he wasn't doing anything that would go on a comedy reel. This year he's already done three insane things (two in the same move) over two games.

That suggests to me he can't deal with the extra competition brought in.
 

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What’s he doing back anyway? Thought they had someone else? Kepa makes a glaring error every game even if his defenders aren’t helping him.
 

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What’s he doing back anyway? Thought they had someone else? Kepa makes a glaring error every game even if his defenders aren’t helping him.
Mendy got injured on international duty.
 

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Kudos to him and Pickford for entertaining the neutrals for so long. Whichever PL executive that planted these moles deserves a raise.
 

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According to transfermarkt, he has saved 7 out 24 pens (not counting shootouts) in his career, a rate of 1 in 3.
 

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At least he's good at something I guess.
He's actually bounced back quite well under Tuchel - gone from a historically bad shot stopper to an average one over the past two seasons.

Certainly he's worth nowhere near what we paid but he's absolutely a serviceable goalkeeper in there based on the recent evidence - he's not someone like DDG who can bail out a disastrous defense, but in a cohesive system he can be an asset.
 

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He's actually bounced back quite well under Tuchel - gone from a historically bad shot stopper to an average one over the past two seasons.

Certainly he's worth nowhere near what we paid but he's absolutely a serviceable goalkeeper in there based on the recent evidence - he's not someone like DDG who can bail out a disastrous defense, but in a cohesive system he can be an asset.
I need to ask what prompted Chelsea to pay all the money they did at the time? Was he a world renowned talent at the time? I certainly don’t remember him at the time until it popped up that they’d signed him
 

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I need to ask what prompted Chelsea to pay all the money they did at the time? Was he a world renowned talent at the time? I certainly don’t remember him at the time until it popped up that they’d signed him
We were caught completely out by Courtois' transfer demand at the last minute. By all accounts publicly and privately he'd expressed willingness to play the last year of his contract out with Chelsea and potentially negotiate an extension - but after the World Cup he all of a sudden refused to show up to preseason training and insisted on a transfer.

By that point we tried to hijack Alisson's move to Liverpool (failed despite our offer of a higher wage because we finished 5th and Liverpool 4th the season before) and we also offered a world record fee for Oblak (who similarly wasn't keen on spending a year outside the CL). Given the timing, we thus had to turn to goalkeepers who would fit Sarri's progressive approach in building from the back who also had a release clause - and thus Kepa was identified as a young prospect who was attainable who fit the team ethos yet had room to grow and improve.

This whole saga is why Courtois is so despised among the Chelsea fanbase - he really fecked the team over by forcing his way out when he did, and all this after we displaced our greatest-ever goalkeeper to accommodate him.
 

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I need to ask what prompted Chelsea to pay all the money they did at the time? Was he a world renowned talent at the time? I certainly don’t remember him at the time until it popped up that they’d signed him
He was excellent for me in PES 2018 Master League if that is anything to go by :angel:
 

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I need to ask what prompted Chelsea to pay all the money they did at the time? Was he a world renowned talent at the time? I certainly don’t remember him at the time until it popped up that they’d signed him
Kepa was a huge talent before Chelsea. Very highly rated.
 

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He’s literally cost them two league cups. If he had focused on saving the pens today instead of his stupid attempts at mind games he might have got close to one. Psyched himself out the absolute tool.
 

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How many times did he guess right but just half dived? Unless the ball was hit in the ground he was never getting one. Almost vertical when he dived across
 

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Doesn't get anywhere near 11 penalties and then launches a goal kick that wouldn't have gone in a second goal stacked on top of the real one. :lol:
 

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Thought the De Gea situation in EL final was the worst and quite a statistically improbable thing that could happen to a keeper in a shootout. 6 months and Kepa has it too.