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Cantona left Leeds coz he shagged one of his team mates’ wives, didn’t he?

The deal for Sanchez was an outstanding bit of business by BHA and equally laughable incompetence by Chelsea's recruitment team. 25m is a big fee for a 'keeper in normal circumstances (in the top 10 of biggest transfer fees??), but to pay that much for a player that clearly wasn't wanted by the...

That is just a raw stat for saves made though. It doesn’t account for games played or shots on target faced so isn’t particularly useful . Verbruggen’s save percentage is significantly higher than Steele’s. This site has a bit more detail and includes save percentage...

Going back to Sanchez specifically. Yesterday I watched the montage that the YouTube channel put up when he left. I always remember him being really good at making himself big and really hard to beat in a one-on-one with that long-barrier technique. What I’d forgotten was how good he was at...

I read that he was talking about brief period when Steele got away with not being so good at the goal keeping side of his position. This was from about March to May then first 4-5 weeks of this season.

Yes. When you don't even get another chance after seeing your replacement concede 5 goals from 5 shots on target, then you know you're never getting your place back under the same manager. Same as when we all knew Dahoud was never playing for us again after he couldn't even make the squad over...

You’re not accepting that he was dropped though? You appear to be claiming that Sanchez and Steele were being rotated, which clearly wasn’t what was happening last season. Whether the way he dealt with it after Everton is acceptable or not is a different discussion. But there’s no arguing of...

Are you being deliberately obtuse or can you just not accept you were wrong about this one? 22 of Sanchez’s starts were upto and including the Fulham game. After that he played 1 PL game when Steele was unavailable and the 2 cup games, which is not unconventional for a back-up keeper. Rotation...

And? That doesn’t re-write history of him being unambiguously dropped as 1st-choice keeper by RDZ a long time before he downed tools. Cucurella also gets nowhere near Chelsea’s best starting 11, and that amuses me greatly, but that doesn’t change the fact that he was brilliant for us.

No, let's get this straight. He was dropped as first-choice keeper after the Fulham defeat and Steele played in goal in 6 consecutive PL games before he missed Chelsea away due to injury. Sanchez also played against Man U as it was a cup game, but RDZ then reverted straight back to Steele for...

In defence of statistics: Our chairman became a billionaire becuase of his understanding of them, and our hugely successful recruitment of the last 4-5 seasons has been primarilty based on them. They will often show things that the eye doesn't see (or doesn't want to see).

Bob wasn't part of any rotational game; he was just dropped.

Not the whole story really. He was playing badly and got dropped but didn't throw his toys out of the pram. What he did was to professionally continue as back-up for 6 games before getting a chance at redemption by being recalled for Chelsea away and the FAC semi, and despite playing well in...

Spot on. In 210 minutes of football against Chelsea and Man U he conceded one goal - a huge deflection. If you get dropped after that and not reinstated when your understudy concedes 5 from 5 shots on target, you’re know you’re already out the door.

I feel sorry for Steele. He's not good enough to be the regular keeper of a PL side, never mind a side in European competition. RDZ has hung him out to dry. I'm really not surprised that Sanchez saw his arse after being replaced by him and not regaining it after that Everton game where he...