THE FIRST CHOICE REPLACEMENT FOR THIBAUT COURTOIS WAS JAN OBLAK..

Actually the first choice for a new goalkeeper at Chelsea for the departing goalkeeper the Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was actually the Slovenian goalkeeper who plays his club football with the Spanish side Atletico Madrid Jan Oblak. Chelsea were even willing to pay the 90, ninety million pounds buy out clause for Jan Oblak, But Jan Oblak decided to stay back in Spain , with his club Atletico Madrid. It was then that Chelsea , with time running out decided to pay the buy out clause of 71.8 seventy one point eight million pounds to buy out the Atletico Bilbao goalkeeper Kepa Arrzibagala. Now Atletico Madrid are going to give a new contract to Jan oblak, with a new buy out clause of 250, two hundred and fifty million pounds. And it will be a mouth watering amount as well.