Thibaut Courtois

[incometax 116]

Read in the newspaper today that Courtuis is attending the Cfc - Fulham game. He will also have talks with Lollichon and attends the training later this week..

He will hand in a transfer request already if he watched this game.

on a serious note; if avb is worth half a shit courtois will be our starter. cech can't steal games for us(like today he could of jumped better and stopped the ball) and makes way to many mistakes. Remeber his pass to mikel in lfc game???? or against arsenal he was beat shortside when a goalie for a top club should be saving those. Than again were midtable club. NOT TOP .

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

Cech may be solid, but the blunt fact is he need's a genuine no.2 to compete with him for the GK spot. He's reminding me of of Van Der Sar in his last few years, prone to mistakes but generally solid. I do think we should recall Thibaut because if we look at the facts Cech has made some serious point-dropping mistakes - Arsenal, Leverkuson, Liverpool, Wigan, Sp*ds and apparently today (haven't had a chance too see it yet) Maybe if he had been on the form of Krul/Hart we wouldn't have leeked some of the goals we have. He does have the knack of making outstanding saves, as a world-class keeper it's inevitable - but with the utmost respect to Petr I don't see him saving us with those right to left super saves nowadays. Watching City, Newcastle and even Arsenal I've seen their keepers save 2 points or even 1 at times. Back in the days we had Carvalho, Terry and Cech working as a defensive wall under Jose! We don't have a defensive shape as of yet, and Cech is by no means of his Jose form.

[Liquidator 5,176]

Read in the newspaper today that Courtuis is attending the Cfc - Fulham game. He will also have talks with Lollichon and attends the training later this week..

wouldn't see it too much as putting pressure on Cech, more that he wants to stay match fit during the winter break in spain

[Hamilton 2,120]

wouldn't see it too much as putting pressure on Cech, more that he wants to stay match fit during the winter break in spain

Thinking that to, having spent christmas at home in Belgium, now a few days stop at Cfc with probably some evaluation talks etc.. The article did also say that he has some eye tests to do and some jump/reflexes tests.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Courtois breezes through tests

Teenage goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois claims he has passed a range of fitness tests at Chelsea with flying colours after returning temporarily from his loan spell at Atletico Madrid.

The 19-year-old, on a season-long loan deal at the Vicente Calderon, has established himself as the club's first-choice keeper over Sergio Asenjo following the summer departure of David de Gea to Manchester United.

Courtois, who arrived at Chelsea from Genk in July and was sent straight out on loan, has returned to West London during the Primera Liga winter break.

The Belgium international was in the stands at Stamford Bridge during the Blues' Boxing Day draw with Fulham and has also undergone a range of tests, which he claims to have breezed through.

"The tests showed that over six months I have become a lot stronger," Courtois told Voetbal Primeur.

"I can jump a foot higher than I could last year and my reflexes have also improved.

"Chelsea were especially impressed by my results in the stress test. Under great pressure I was able to continue coolly."

While Courtois has impressed at Atletico so far, the teenager knows he faces a challenge in proving himself to new coach Diego Simeone, who was unveiled by the club last week.

"For now they are satisfied in all respects," he added. "Now we will see how the situation with Atletico's new coach plays out.

"I have to prove myself again against the other goalkeepers."

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/7400652/Courtois-breezes-through-tests

Hope the new coach will keep him as their primary keeper ahead of Asenjo.

[Hamilton 2,120]

Well, i read some time over here that there is a 'must play' of 75% clausule between Cfc and Atletico, don't know this really is true tough??

If he stays working like this then he should have no problem anyway to stay as Nr1 at Atletico i guess..

[Tomo 21,751]

Well, i read some time over here that there is a 'must play' of 75% clausule between Cfc and Atletico, don't know this really is true tough??

Hopefully it's what we will do to whoever gets Josh on loan this January.

[dave30 728]

Hopefully it's what we will do to whoever gets Josh on loan this January.

its what we should have done with Kakuta.

[Kostas 1,468]

Afaik we can't really force a team to play a loaned player but they will have to pay a penalty if he does do not get a certain amount of appearances. Wouldn't be surprised if that was the case with all our loans including Kakuta's and PvA's.

[Atholy 1,293]

Here's a video I wanted to share with the chelsea fans.

Those are the last 15 minutes of the ultimate game for the belgian championship last year: RC Genk vs. Standard de Liege.

Standard needed a win to be champions, for Genk a tie would be enough. Take the time to get into this atmosphere of the game.

You will see that an 18 year old goalkeeper kept his composure and with 3 ultimate saves in the last minutes decided the championship in Genks favor (starting at 8:40 mins)!

Oh wait, that's right... this kid is a blue now :blue scalf:

In an article this weekend Courtois stated that the Chelsea staff was more than impressed with his results from the 'stress test'. And that he was amongst the very best of over 200 players that have been tested the last years. I think this video is a good example of that!

[Hamilton 2,120]

Still great to see this over and over again

[Madmax 9,219]

http://www.weaintgotnohistory.com/2012/1/2/2670705/chelsea-fc-loanee-mid-season-review-thibaut-courtois

[Atholy 1,293]

http://www.weaintgot...hibaut-courtois

Great article!

[Hamilton 2,120]

I read some articles that Cfc decided he can stay for another year at Athletico..

[Peace. 4,352]

We should tell to Atletico that if they want him next year, they have to take back their Nino.