Donnarumma get irritated when was pointed out it was ‘not the first time’ he had struggled with back-passes and playing out from the back.“When did it happen before? When I was fouled against Real Madrid?.."

Desperation. Courtois refused to show up to training three days before the season started and summer window would close (back then the PL stupidly decided to end the transfer deadline early as an experiment) to force a move to Real Madrid, so Chelsea’s options were limited especially since Sarri’s system demanded a keeper with good distribution. Not even Kepa’s biggest believers thought he was worth that fee but it was a release clause and Bilbao don’t negotiate, so the board decided to bite the bullet instead of potentially having to go into the season with Cabellero as their starting keeper and risking missing out on CL qualification.

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