Chelsea’s summer transfer window decision comes back to haunt them yesterday | OneFootball

One of Chelsea’s big summer transfer window decisions has come back to haunt them yesterday in their defeat against Manchester United.

This is the opinion of Kieran Gill of The Daily Mail, who has written his review on the game yesterday and made the very point above.

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Chelsea were up against it after just five minutes when goalkeeper Robert Sanchez decided to have a massive brain fart moment by fouling Bryan Mbeumo and leaving the Referee with no other alternative than to send him off.

Enzo Maresca has since responded to the sending off and says that Sanchez should have just let Mbeumo score the goal rather than get sent off so early in the game, and of course he is correct there by saying this.

Chelsea did fight back a bit when United also saw a player get sent off before half time, but the damage had already seemingly been done and Chelsea didn’t have enough to get anything out of it.

Sanchez should have been replaced

Robert Sanchez trudges off. (Photo by Jan Kruger/Getty Images)

Sanchez is not good enough to be number one keeper for Chelsea, for me that has been obvious for some time. He should have been upgraded in the summer and I know I am far from alone by saying this.

Gill writes:

“Heading into the summer window, there were Chelsea supporters loudly telling their club that they needed a new goalkeeper. They reckoned Robert Sanchez was nowhere near good enough to take them to the next level, while Filip Jorgensen was only an understudy at best.

“Chelsea flirted with signing Mike Maignan from AC Milan before the Club World Cup, but refused to commit to the numbers involved. They saw Maignan as worth £12.7million due to only having one year remaining on his current contract at the age of 30. Milan wanted £21m.

“And so, Chelsea stuck with Sanchez and Jorgensen. They had avoided scrutiny this season but here, both brought back the same noises from before.”