22 year old another unlikely target for Chelsea – Blues are well stocked and Valencia don’t want to sell | OneFootball

Chelsea were linked with Valencia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashivili this summer, and those rumours have popped up again today.

A report from 90min says that the Blues like the 22 year old a lot, but also that Valencia are determined not to lose him mid-season, and will push to keep him until the summer at the very least.

We’re not sure why the goalkeeper rumours keep popping up this week. Yesterday it was Aaron Ramsdale, today Mamardashivili.

As we wrote in response to the Ramsdale rumours, we wouldn’t rule out Chelsea signing a truly elite keeper, given the crazy spending we’ve seen, no transfer can be ruled out.

But the fact that Djordje Petrovic was added to Gabriel Slonina as younger options to battle behind short/medium term option Robert Sanchez indicates to us that the plan is to transition to one of them as soon as they’re ready, not spend yet more money on a first team ready option.