{"id":594948,"date":"2026-08-25T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/594948\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:02:09","slug":"he-undermines-chelsea-gary-neville-urges-xabi-alonso-to-replace-robert-sanchez-after-goalkeepers-costly-fulham-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/594948\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He undermines Chelsea&#8217; &#8211; Gary Neville urges Xabi Alonso to replace Robert Sanchez after goalkeeper\u2019s costly Fulham errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For the first time in a while I really like the spine of Chelsea\u2019s team,&#8221; Neville said on Sky Sports before the game. &#8220;The goalkeeper could maybe be upgraded but it doesn\u2019t look like that\u2019s going to happen.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>However, following the high-profile blunders during the match, his tone shifted to one of significant concern regarding the long-term viability of Sanchez as the club&#8217;s primary option. &#8220;Chelsea were in a really good shape, showing respect to Fulham. Xabi Alonso will be thinking, &#8216;how have we conceded from here?&#8217;. We\u2019ve got to be careful about criticising goalkeepers and any players really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former Manchester United defender went further, suggesting that the goalkeeper&#8217;s inconsistencies could derail the entire project Alonso is building in West London. &#8220;It will undermine everything Chelsea do. It\u2019s a problem for Chelsea and I don\u2019t think if Emi Martinez is available, but they need someone like that,&#8221; Neville added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;For the first time in a while I really like the spine of Chelsea\u2019s team,&#8221; Neville said on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4027,61152,194450,85,46,2619,153364,105,199699],"class_list":["post-594948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-fulham","tag-g-neville","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-premier-league","tag-r-sanchez","tag-sports","tag-x-alonso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}