Caballero chose to continue his Premier League career with Chelsea rather than Newcastle after bidding farewell to Manchester City.
After three years warming the Manchester City bench, Newcastle United were willing to give Willy Caballero the opportunity to prove that he was up to the standard of a Premier League number one in the summer.
The Chronicle, however, reports that the Argentine rejected an offer from Tyneside to move to the capital with Premier League champions Chelsea – where he will spend the foreseeable future, you guessed it, collecting splinters rather than shots amongst the substitutes.
Unsurprisingly, Caballero has not played a minute of Premier League football for his new employers – with his only appearance to date coming in the EFL Cup clash with Nottingham Forest.
Newcastle fans will say this is karma. With manager Rafael Benitez seemingly unconvinced with either Karl Darlow, Tim Krul or current first-choice Rob Elliot, the former Malaga ‘keeper surely would have been featuring regularly in England for the first time since he arrived from Spain in 2014.
Instead, the 36-year-old looks set to while away the autumn years of his career alongside Michy Batshuayi, another Newcastle summer target, in the Stamford Bridge dugout.
Fortunately for Benitez, however, Elliot has been pretty solid since The Magpies returned to the Premier League this season. The Republic of Ireland international displaced the infrequently unconvincing Darlow and has not looked back, a pillar of reliability between the posts.
Some fans would even suggest that Elliot is looking far more convincing now than Caballero ever did during his three years at City.
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