Back up keeper

[Joey66]

It'll be stek. Doubt this will be a priority. We are not in Europe so other than Cup ties against teams Lower down the leagues Pickford will play pretty much every game. Lad just needs a rest after World Cup. Probably not play pre season until Valencia.

Stek will go as well as robles did on too much money no doubt and past it , and dodgy knees....

 

[samsonthedog1]

I don’t think Stek is a bad backup keeper. If Pickford gets suspended or injured for a month or so we would get by. I can’t see us spending any money on a backup yet:

 

[Albro]

Steklenburg is fine

 

[paulos]

Once Wolves tear us a new one and walk through Morgan and our defence like they aint there thats when the self appointed enlightened ones will see the woods from the tree's.

In all seriousness your dead right its becoming more and more a concern.

 

[Groucho]

..I thought Robles was ok as Back-up.

Me too.

Depends if he was happy to be a back up keeper I suppose.

 

[Groucho]

Steklenburg is fine

Out of him and Joel, Joel was superior.

@Dutch Toffee does not rate Stekelenburg and he would know.

 

[Albro]

Out of him and Joel, Joel was superior.

@Dutch Toffee does not rate Stekelenburg and he would know.

Robles needed to leave for the good of his career, to good of a player to be a No. 2. I liked him a lot.

As far as a No. 2 goes now, it will be difficult to uprgade from Stek, a decent no.2 is often difficult to find.

 

[ilikecheese]

Why is it so rare to promote a backup keeper from the youth ranks?

 

[Papa Shango]

Why is it so rare to promote a backup keeper from the youth ranks?

Vicious circle I suppose. For a player to be deemed good enough they need game time to prove their worth yet they wont get the game time required due to it being a unique position.

 

[Nymzee]

Why is it so rare to promote a backup keeper from the youth ranks?

Because ours are all crap.

 

[Number_25]

Steklenburg is a fantastic backup keeper.

 

[Ruairi77]

Everton should look at Shamrock Rovers 16 year old keeper Gavin Bazunu to replace Joel. Just had a great game against cork. Sorry, should probably be in the transfer thread.

this kid just signed for city for 400K. Looks like we've got good keeper coverage for a while to come anyway. I think Virginia will be a very good keeper.

 

[Nymzee]

Virginia > Pickford

 

[The binman chronicles]

Virginia > Pickford

That's what the money men will want you to believe if a 100M+ offer comes in for Pickford. By the seem of it I would be too disappointed but let's give the kid time to see if he is the real deal.

 

[Kienic]

this kid just signed for city for 400K. Looks like we've got good keeper coverage for a while to come anyway.

A small price to pay indeed, stays at Rovers till after the exams next year I believe and then a journeyman loanee for a few seasons