Football transfer rumours: Chelsea want Petr Cech back from Arsenal?

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We all know the feeling of temptation to go back to something comforting. An old friend, that hoodie you’ve had since you were 16 which could thus tell your life story through stains, your bed instead of facing up to the grim realities of work and life. For Chelsea, that comforting thing is apparently Petr Cech. Now, we wouldn’t want to accuse them of lacking imagination, but if their solution to Thibaut Courtois’s apparently imminent departure to Real Madrid is to give the bloke whose spare boots are probably still at the training ground a ring, then … actually, that isn’t very imaginative, is it?

The logical conclusion to this is of course Carlo Cudicini eventually replacing Cech, and Dmitri Kharine dusting off his jogging bottoms. Back in the land of the plausible, Kasper Schmeichel is another candidate to come in, but that’s more a bit underwhelming than silly, ergo less fun.

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