Official: Mike Penders signs for Chelsea

[My Blood Is Blue]

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/article/penders-to-join-chelsea
 

He will join from next summer and has a contract until 2032.

Another GK.

[chrisb]

Are there any keepers left in Europe for sale? 

[xceleryx]

Said this in the transfer thread when posting it, but has drawn comparisons to a young Courtios and is highly regarded within Belgium from what I'm seeing.

[chiswickblue]

The club first said it was a purchase and loan back, but then changed the story to say that he will only sign next summer - in order to keep another international loan slot available!

[Lump Of Celery]

He has only just made his senior debut, I hope there is some financial incentive factored in to make it desirable for Genk to play and develop him over the season

[chara]

This reads like deja vu ,,, buy a young promising keeper and send him out on loan or stay at home club until Chelsea are "ready" for him.,,,, seems to be a pattern here..but why?

Cloughie said "There are no good young keepers"... usual Cloughie trying to make you think..I see it as him saying keepers become good as the develop and are not the finished /complete player as a youngsters,,,TC was nursed through by Chelsea in text book fashion,,mind you I think Bonetti was 19 when he made his debut,,the exception that proves the point I guess.

[xceleryx]

12 hours ago, chara said:

This reads like deja vu ,,, buy a young promising keeper and send him out on loan or stay at home club until Chelsea are "ready" for him.,,,, seems to be a pattern here..but why?

Cloughie said "There are no good young keepers"... usual Cloughie trying to make you think..I see it as him saying keepers become good as the develop and are not the finished /complete player as a youngsters,,,TC was nursed through by Chelsea in text book fashion,,mind you I think Bonetti was 19 when he made his debut,,the exception that proves the point I guess.

How many young keepers do you see get thrown in at big clubs. Heck, even just your regular Premier League/top flight club? (Injury or emergency situations aside).

If we're true to form he'll spend the season at Genk, he'll then return and we'll loan him to Atletico Madrid for the next 3 years, in which he'll come back and take over. 

 

[chara]

1 hour ago, xceleryx said:

How many young keepers do you see get thrown in at big clubs. Heck, even just your regular Premier League/top flight club? (Injury or emergency situations aside).

If we're true to form he'll spend the season at Genk, he'll then return and we'll loan him to Atletico Madrid for the next 3 years, in which he'll come back and take over. 

 

Or,,,,just fade away or thrown back in the transfer wilderness because Chelsea have signed a new potential keeper every year and then a real keeper out of nowhere much to everyone's astonishment,..Truly The Twilight Zone has become our Chelsea reality

Edited August 28, 2024 by Michael Tucker
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[xceleryx]

1 hour ago, chara said:

Or,,,,just fade away or thrown back in the transfer wilderness because Chelsea have signed a new potential keeper every year and then a real keeper out of nowhere much to everyone's astonishment,..Truly The Twilight Zone has become our Chelsea reality

That's the reality of being a keeper and only one senior position available. 

If you can't get a game at the club you're signed with then it's either the bench or move elsewhere to play with regularity, a lot of the time this means lower league football or European leagues outside the conventional big few. 

[chrisb]

Rumour has it that you’re now never more than 6 feet away from a Chelsea goalkeeper.

[chara]

5 hours ago, xceleryx said:

That's the reality of being a keeper and only one senior position available. 

If you can't get a game at the club you're signed with then it's either the bench or move elsewhere to play with regularity, a lot of the time this means lower league football or European leagues outside the conventional big few. 

Ain't that the truth!🤠🦘