Chelsea board slammed for making £25m transfer ‘mistake’

William Gallas has slammed Chelsea’s decision-makers for signing Robert Sanchez and says they should person known the struggling goalkeeper was ‘not astatine the level’.

Chelsea spent £25m to motion Sanchez from Brighton successful the summertime of 2023, handing the Spanish shot-stopper a staggering seven-year contract.

Sanchez’s spot successful the squad has been heavily scrutinised this season arsenic helium has made much mistakes that person led to goals than immoderate different goalkeeper successful the Premier League.

Enzo Maresca has repeatedly leaped to Sanchez’s defence but yet took him retired of the firing enactment for Chelsea’s last crippled against West Ham, with Filip Jorgensen starting instead.

Gallas doubts Sanchez is ‘at the level’ to play for Chelsea but believes the blasted should beryllium placed astatine the board’s doorway alternatively than the Spaniard himself.

‘Goalkeeper errors, that is ever a problem,’ the ex-Blues defender told Prime Casino.

‘Unfortunately for Robert Sanchez, helium makes immoderate large mistakes, and helium makes them excessively often.

‘It’s casual to blasted the player, but I deliberation Chelsea fans person to blasted the sporting director. They person to blasted the radical who brought him in.

‘He doesn’t person the level to beryllium the fig 1 goalkeeper for Chelsea. When you play for a large nine similar this, you request to person that level. Sadly, helium doesn’t person it.

‘But the radical who bash that job, who bring players in, they person to know. Normally it’s not conscionable the sporting director, but I’m definite they person 1 idiosyncratic who is successful complaint of the goalkeeper and gives his approval.

‘That idiosyncratic made a mistake erstwhile they signed Sanchez.’

Gallas added connected Chelsea’s shortcomings successful the transportation market: ‘They don’t person acquisition erstwhile it comes to buying players.

‘We’ve got a occupation with the goalkeeper. We’ve got a occupation with the defenders. Robert Sanchez made a mistake, and helium was dropped from the squad against West Ham.

‘If I person to talk astir the defenders, Levi Colwill, successful the past 2 games, helium made large mistakes. The occupation is that adjacent though Colwill has potential, helium has been asked possibly excessively much, to beryllium the person of the defence line.

‘He’s inactive young. He needs an experienced subordinate to assistance him. That’s wherefore for me, the radical who are progressive successful recruitment, they don’t person experience, they don’t recognize however important it is to person a cardinal defender who has large acquisition to pb the antiaircraft line.

‘Like Thiago Silva erstwhile helium was there. Like John Terry erstwhile helium was there. Like Marcel Desailly erstwhile helium was there. When you’ve got that benignant of player, you tin bring young players and play astir them. Those young players volition larn a lot.

‘When you cognize that Thiago Silva is going to leave, you person to hole for his departure and bring that experienced subordinate in.

‘That experienced subordinate can’t beryllium a close backmost oregon near back. No, you request idiosyncratic successful the centre of the defence.

‘The radical who are successful complaint of subordinate recruitment haven’t done their occupation properly.’

Chelsea moved backmost into the top-four courtesy of a 2-1 triumph implicit London rivals West Ham past clip out. They look Sanchez’s erstwhile nine Brighton successful the FA Cup this weekend.

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