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Petr is old and stagnated? Joke of the day. What happened to coming and earning your chance on merit? The joke is people writing and thinking they know what they are talking about.

So he has to come here, after all he did in Spain, and accept sitting on the bench cause Cech is a legend? That doesn't sound fair to me.
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I don't like it one bit. This guy comes in and acts like a petulant child arrogant prick and gets what he wants without doing a damn thing to earn it in return. He was ready to dump us for Madrid for a minute there. Watch what happens when his renewal comes up in four years or so, if he signs this extension. Bad precedence if you ask me. I feel bad for Petr. He has bled, gotten knocked out almost died and busted his whole mouth lips and jaw for the club and this is how we repay him? I'm pissed. i really hope he stays. If he leaves we are back to square one. Should this brat get injured, we are back to Schwarzer again, just like last year.

I can't find any arrogant words Courtois has said in an interview that directly discredit Cech. As far as I could remember, the arrogant image was built from his agent quotes, Wilmots quotes and his comments about Mignolet. In his latest interview I found he has some respect for Cech. The one whom I think is more fitted your description "This guy comes in and acts like a petulant child arrogant prick and gets what he wants without doing a damn thing to earn it in return" is Lukaku

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Where in La Liga. Is that we play? How many times have we seen top players in other leagues come to the EPL and fail?

Okay, then what about the Champions League? He was great throughout.

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So because you are a top dog in the MLS means you will be top brass in the EPL? Football in not mathematics, where if a=b and b=c, then a=c.

Thing is he isn't coming from some vastly inferior league. That was the case when he was signed from Genk, so he was sent on loan to prove himself and he has done this.

Like Tomo said, this is pretty similar to when Cech joined Chelsea and displaced Cudicini. Mourinho could have easily gone with the more PL proven GK, but instead he gave Cech a chance and that has worked out wonderfully.

Courtois might/might not turn out to be the same, but him sitting on the bench will achieve nothing but force him out prematurely. He will get the chance to prove he's good enough to replace Cech for years to come.

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Petr is old and stagnated? Joke of the day. What happened to coming and earning your chance on merit? The joke is people writing and thinking they know what they are talking about.

Anelka, Malouda and Lamps weren't in 2008, but we should have still acted in advance and looked at long term replacements.

As for this earned thing, were you also kicking off in 2004 when Petr replaced Carlo?

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So because it worked out perfectly 10 years ago means history will repeat itself again? only if football was that predictable.

anyway let's wait and see but from what I have seen of Courtois since his last season at genk to this point I remain unconvinced and underwhelmed. Cech remains Chelsea undisputed no1 goalkeeper in my eye until Courtois is able to prove otherwise.

if we start petr over courtois, we risk losing him permanently. not only is the difference between chec and courtois not worth losing courtois; many would argue courtois is better than chec and is the 2nd best gk in the world

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Petr is old and stagnated? Joke of the day. What happened to coming and earning your chance on merit? The joke is people writing and thinking they know what they are talking about.

My god what a load of shite.

Jose isn't going to play Courtois simply because he has demanded he won't sit on a bench. He will play him if hes done enough in training to prove hes the better goalkeeper out of him and Petr. You said people are writing thinking they know what they are talking about even though what you said is pretty fucking stupid. Jose isn't going to make someone first choice because they demand it. Look at what happened with Lukaku. Idiot.

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Okay, then what about the Champions League? He was great throughout.

Yes he was, and what about the AM midfield defending and their defenders. The whole team contributed to it. Madrid won the CL and Ike was a disaster. So it doesn't follow. Torres was always good in europe, but sucked the EPL. Players react differently in different settings. I just think this should have been his transition year. We brought in Torres and phased out Drogba and look at what happened, we are back to Drogba and Torres is a baggage.All these are just presumptions. I for one think it would have been a different outcome had Petr not dislocated his should in the semis against AM. We really missed him. If we let Petr go, we are going to be in the same situation again. One injury from being back to Schwatzer, that is my main concern. Hopefully, Petr will be the adult about it and take one for the team. This decision will be akin to taking a yellow card for the team.

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Thing is he isn't coming from some vastly inferior league. That was the case when he was signed from Genk, so he was sent on loan to prove himself and he has done this.

Like Tomo said, this is pretty similar to when Cech joined Chelsea and displaced Cudicini. Mourinho could have easily gone with the more PL proven GK, but instead he gave Cech a chance and that has worked out wonderfully.

Courtois might/might not turn out to be the same, but him sitting on the bench will achieve nothing but force him out prematurely. He will get the chance to prove he's good enough to replace Cech for years to come.

Oh well thats where we differ. Time will tell. But he could have been less brash and used this year like a learning curve. His attitude and statement prior to coming in to Chelsea was disrespectful to Petr IMHO.

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So he has to come here, after all he did in Spain, and accept sitting on the bench cause Cech is a legend? That doesn't sound fair to me.

No because Cech is quite frankly a better goalkeeper and one of the very best the league as ever seen and he only gets to displace Cech by actually earning it through outperforming Cech in a chelsea uniform in an ideal world.

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Okay, then what about the Champions League? He was great throughout.

Great throughout? this is the type of overrating that I'm talking about, The barca fixture where the only matches where he produced impressive performance. Majority of their matches in the group stages were absolutely cake walk (Atleti were hardly threatened at the back as was often the case in la liga due to their great defensive organisation) and in the other two games were he was tested during the entire competition, games against Zenith and Real, he made huge errors that led to goals.

This is a classic case of rewriting history.

As always, atleti defend resolutely, limit their opponents to barely half chances and courtois maybe makes a couple of easy/routine saves that any keeper at the top level would be expected to make, AM keep clean sheet and Thibaut is praised to high heavens for the record he contributed little to. wash rinse and repeat.

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This is a classic case of rewriting history.

As always, atleti defend resolutely, limit their opponents to barely half chances and courtois maybe makes a couple of easy/routine saves that any keeper at the top level would be expected to make, AM keep clean sheet and Thibaut is praised to high heavens for the record he contributed little to. wash rinse and repeat.

This is funny because the same pretty much applies to Cech. A lot of his clean sheets he doesn't even touch the ball more than 5 times.

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This is funny because Cech doesn't have to do much also, and still concedes cheap goals on corners.

Cech usually has to do alot actually. a whole lot more than Thibaut.. . .The presence of David Luiz alone makes that impossible. Even in our best defensive year 04/05 I remember vividly spectacular saves cech had to make like against Barca, Blackburn, Liverpool,Newcastle, Fulham just to name a few. His award as the best goalkeeper that year was well earned and fully deserved.

Atleti on the otherhand are just a different beast collectively, they are arguably the most stingy and annoyingly resolute team I have seen in recent years, they simply do not allow their opponent to create clear cut chances

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Cech usually has to do alot actually. a whole lot more than Thibaut.. . .The presence of David Luiz alone makes that impossible. Even in our best defensive year 04/05 I remember vividly spectacular saves cech had to make like against Barca, Blackburn, Liverpool,Newcastle, Fulham just to name a few. His award as the best goalkeeper that year was well earned and fully deserved.

Atleti on the otherhand are just a different beast collectively, they are arguably the most stingy and annoyingly resolute team I have seen in recent years, they simply do not allow their opponent to create clear cut chances

Behind every great defence is a great keeper.

The Rio, Vidic and Evra defensive axis that was lauded to high heaven, Rio himself admitted they wouldn't have been half as good if it weren't for VDS. If Leti started playing Ross Turnbull then there great defence would quickly look a shadow of it's former self.

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Cech usually has to do alot actually. a whole lot more than Thibaut.. . .The presence of David Luiz alone makes that impossible. Even in our best defensive year 04/05 I remember vividly spectacular saves cech had to make like against Barca, Blackburn, Liverpool,Newcastle, Fulham just to name a few. His award as the best goalkeeper that year was well earned and fully deserved.

Atleti on the otherhand are just a different beast collectively, they are arguably the most stingy and annoyingly resolute team I have seen in recent years, they simply do not allow their opponent to create clear cut chances

Courtois also has to make great saves. I remember in the Copa final against Jose's madrid, he saved more than 1 clear goal. Also against Milan last season, he made a great save on Kaka. (Obviously i can't list all his great saves since i don't watch him for 60 games a season, like with Cech)

Atletico fans rate him highly for a reason, and it's not just because he makes easy, routine saves :D

Behind every great defence is a great keeper.

The Rio, Vidic and Evra defensive axis that was lauded to high heaven, Rio himself admitted they wouldn't have been half as good if it weren't for VDS. If Leti started playing Ross Turnbull then there great defence would quickly look a shadow of it's former self.

Everything about this. Atletico defence was better because Courtois is solid and reliable.

I watched one la liga game last season when they used their backup GK, was a shitshow. He was so shaky and they ended up conceding i believe 2 goals because of him.

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