Robert Sánchez

Goalkeeper - Chelsea
1 Dec 2030
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Marked for Robert Sánchez

225 Edition

The Chelsea Chronicle

18 Nov 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings18 Nov 2030

Nobody could get near Jamie Gittens

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match16 Nov 2030

Chelsea make home a hard place to visit

18 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match16 Nov 2030

Still nobody has beaten Chelsea

The unbeaten run reaches 13. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market18 Nov 2030

Dastan Sätpayev has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Chelsea they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market18 Nov 2030

Tayo Subuloye asks to leave Chelsea

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad18 Nov 2030

Tempers go at Chelsea

Jorrel Hato was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings18 Nov 2030

Jorrel Hato was the difference for Chelsea

Marked 7.84. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout18 Nov 2030

Dango Ouattara has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Chelsea will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout18 Nov 2030

Tarik Muharemović gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

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179 Edition

The Chelsea Chronicle

31 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match29 Dec 2029

Julio Enciso breaks Manchester United hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Julio Enciso scored in the 89th minute, Manchester United had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Chelsea took the lot.

Market31 Dec 2029

Leandro Brey hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout31 Dec 2029

Robert Sánchez keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Chelsea may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market31 Dec 2029

Marco Palestra has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Chelsea they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad31 Dec 2029

A falling-out at Chelsea

João Pedro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad31 Dec 2029

Words at Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Morgan Rogers is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout31 Dec 2029

The manager makes an example of Tarik Muharemović

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match29 Dec 2029

Julio Enciso the difference as Chelsea beat Manchester United

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Julio Enciso. 1‑0 against Manchester United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout31 Dec 2029

Peter Schneider has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Peter Schneider on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

138 Edition

The Chelsea Chronicle

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Mar 2029

Words exchanged at Chelsea

Cole Palmer and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match17 Mar 2029

The wait goes on for Chelsea

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Loan watch19 Mar 2029

The goals keep arriving from Alejandro Garnacho’s exile

17 goals in 31 games at Leicester City — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Chelsea updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Match17 Mar 2029

The goals have deserted Chelsea

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Chelsea can tell you which week it ends in.

The terraces19 Mar 2029

Chelsea supporters have found a favourite in Geovany Quenda

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Geovany Quenda has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad19 Mar 2029

25 clean sheets for Robert Sánchez

A goalkeeper's career is counted in the games nobody scored in, and Robert Sánchez now has 25 of them across 259 appearances. Nothing about that number was luck.

Squad19 Mar 2029

Words at Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcos Senesi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings19 Mar 2029

Jean-Ricner Bellegarde beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout19 Mar 2029

The manager makes an example of Mamadou Sarr

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief