Chelsea transfer call proven right as Mauricio Pochettino gets £47m Manchester United message

For just one week it appears to be coming up Chelsea. It's the first time in a competitive sense that things have felt nearly entirely positive since March when they won three games on the bounce under Graham Potter.

Plenty has changed since, almost everything has changed since, but for this week alone it has felt slightly more settled. Mauricio Pochettino hasn't been overreacting or throwing the toys out of the pram after defeats and he is all too aware that back-to-back wins aren't enough to get much reception at Stamford Bridge either.

It has been a demonstration of slow but steady progress though and some of the bigger calls made under his management have come back to be proven right. The man-management of Mykhailo Mudryk has been rewarded with a first goal for the club and his link-up with Levi Colwill at left-back helped achieve it.

The return of Thiago Silva to the side after being rested against Brighton came with another cleansheet and Armando Broja's fitness risk paid off as well with a goal on his own return to the side. It is in goal that perhaps attention has not been so great in recent weeks but Robert Sanchez is going under the radar.

He arrived to little fanfare over the summer as simply the next extension of the Brighton shuttle bus to Stamford Bridge. Aged 25 he is the oldest player to come in since the summer window in 2022 and his price of £25million was little by way of attention grabbing.

Having lost his place on the south coast to Jason Steele there were understandable questions over just why Chelsea needed this goalkeeper in particular. Having already sold Edouard Mendy and with the intention of allowing Kepa Arrizabalaga to depart as well, Sanchez came in as the immediate number one.

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