Chelsea told Liverpool star can help them win the Premier League

Enzo Maresca has been told poaching a player from Liverpool can help Chelsea win the Premier League next season. 

Chelsea will hope to make a more telling contribution to the title race next year after briefly challenging Liverpool for the trophy this season. 

Many expected Chelsea to push Liverpool all the way after Enzo Maresca’s side enjoyed a sensational first-half to the campaign. 

But with nine games to go Chelsea face a fight just to qualify for the Champions League having slipped 21 points behind Arne Slot’s soon-to-be champions. 

Chelsea’s big-spending owners will back Maresca with new signings in the summer and one of their priorities will surely be in goal. 

Neither Robert Sanchez or Filip Jorgensen have nailed down the position this season, costing Chelsea regular points with high-profile mistakes. 

Despite repeatedly defending the duo, Maresca will surely be in the market for a new shot-stopper this summer and has been urged to bring Caoimhin Kelleher to Stamford Bridge.

The Liverpool back-up goalkeeper looks more than good enough to be a Premier League No. 1, having impressed while deputising for the injured Alisson Becker earlier in the season.

With Alisson back in the team and thriving following his injury lay-off, Kelleher will be considering his options and a move to Chelsea would be beneficial to all parties, according to Andy Townsend.

‘Caoimhin Kelleher is absolutely better than Filip Jorgensen and Robert Sanchez. He’s more reliable than those two,’ Townsend told OLBG.

‘I saw him during the Arsenal vs Chelsea game and Sanchez, for such a big and imposing guy, he makes poor decisions.

‘He unsettles his own back four. He’s supposed to have a calming influence and it’s supposed to rub off on those guys.  The best goalkeepers have the defenders turning round and thinking, “he’s got it.”

‘Robert Sanchez, unfortunately, can make some incredible saves, but too often he makes poor decisions.

‘I think there’s a nervousness about what he does and if you’ve got a goalie like that between your posts, that’s got to change. 

‘If Chelsea wants to seriously over the next two or three years have a real tilt at winning the Premier League and I think there’s some way off that. But if they do, then they’re going to need to get another goalie in.

‘Kelleher has shown that in big moments in those cup wins for Liverpool, in big matches. He actually has a very understated way of performing as a goalkeeper.

‘I don’t see him panicking like crazy like some goalies do from corners.  What on earth has come over these goalkeepers nowadays when a routine corner comes in, they’re shoving people, they’re pushing people, they’re screaming at the ref, looking at the ref before the thing’s even been delivered.

‘But Kelleher has got a very understated kind of cool, calm, collected sort of manner about him.

‘He’s an incredibly capable and dependable understudy to Alisson, but it is absolutely now the time for him to go and play.

‘I think he can absolutely go and play at a top six club and I really don’t believe he would let them down.

‘Listen, he’s going to have his moments, he’s going to make his cock-ups like they all do, but he’s got the sort of manner that he can cope, he’s shown it.

‘He’s shown it for Liverpool, he can cope at a big club and I think he can cope at a very capable club on a weekly basis, no doubt.’

Kelleher has been part of Liverpool’s first-team since 2019 but only made 65 appearances for the club, meaning a summer move in order to secure more game-time is likely.

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