English Premier League: Assessing Chelsea’s needs for the summer transfer window of 2010 (Part 1)
After getting off to a fantastic start in the 2010-2011 Premier League season, Chelsea’s title challenge had all but faded away as the holiday season approached in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fernando-Torres-c13707 for
50 million pounds and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Defence-c38904 but in the end even such elaborate spending could not propel Chelsea towards the Premier League title.
Despite witnessing a good run of form from early March onwards, Chelsea lost out to Manchester United in the closing weeks of the Premier League season in their pen-ultimate title deciding match at Old Trafford. Now as the summer
approaches, the Blues need massive investment once again.
Their squad is ageing and their strike force is disjointed. It has been a season of underachievement for Chelsea who won the F.A Cup as well as the Premier League in the 2009-2010 season. Thus let’s take a look at what http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786
will have to do in the upcoming summer transfer window in order to improve on their second place finish in the English Premier League in the 2010-2011 season...
Goalkeeping
Chelsea’s goalkeeping contingent has been satisfactory in the 2010-2011 Premier League season as well as in the UEFA Champions League. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Czech-Republic-c2882
international is only 28 years old therefore he is easily the London club’s best choice for a long term goalie for the next ten or so years barring a serious injury. Nonetheless, it is not as if Cech has not has his troubles in the latest season.
The experienced shot stopper was at fault for allowing Wayne Rooney’s strike to sneak in the near post region in Chelsea’s match against Manchester United in the English Premier League. Luckily, the former Premier League champions
went onto win the match by two goals to one in the end. However, it is the absence of a solid goalkeeper to back up Cech that can haunt Chelsea in coming seasons.
Cech has a good understanding with the likes of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ashley-Cole-c6809 but Hilario, Chelsea’s second choice goalkeeper has seemingly given an impressive of an accident which is waiting to happen every time he takes his place
in between the goal sticks. Regardless, Chelsea’s fans can take heart from the fact that their third choice goalkeeper, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ross-Turnbull-c31796 has done well whenever he has been called upon.
A much more practical course of action for the Blues would be to call it a day with Hilario who is waiting on a contract extension already and push Turnbull into the first team squad to act as a backup for Cech. Just to be safe,
Chelsea can also promote a goalkeeper from their youth academy to take up Turnbull’s third choice place.
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