Joel Robles

[ijjysmith]

Basically this is all Stekelenburg's fault for luring us in by being boss for about 7 games then going turd.

Maybe he's good again now for a bit?

 

[toffeejack]

I'm not 100% on Pickford yet. But not sure you can be at his age.

I'm really sure we have or are having a sniff about him though.

i think he'll be the one we go for. As i've said before, i'd rather we got him and begovic and offloaded stek because at least then we have a fall back option of someone more experienced instead of having two relatively young keepers and stek.

 

[Papa Shango]

i think he'll be the one we go for. As i've said before, i'd rather we got him and begovic and offloaded stek because at least then we have a fall back option of someone more experienced instead of having two relatively young keepers and stek.

I don't think Stekelenberg is going anywhere. At the time it struck me that Koeman brought him in as one of his trusted personnel. I think he was always down as being a back up which I am OK with but a new goalie never materialized in the summer.

 

[ijjysmith]

i think he'll be the one we go for. As i've said before, i'd rather we got him and begovic and offloaded stek because at least then we have a fall back option of someone more experienced instead of having two relatively young keepers and stek.

Absolutely not.

 

[Groucho]

The available bit is difficult to answer. You never know who is available until you ask

Realistically we should be able to buy from more or less anyone below us in the Premier League if we put enough money into it. Similarly, there are only a relatively small number of clubs internationally who are big enough to fend us off from a financial perspective.

Those are probably Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, PSG, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. Now there may be players at the likes of both Milan clubs, Roma, Monaco, Lyon, Porto, Sevilla, etc etc who don't fancy a move to us as they are looking for CL clubs, but they shouldn't really be out of our grasp financially.

To go back to the point about who is better...

In this country, keepers from the teams below us who I'm confident are better than Joel: Butland, Schmiechel, Forster. That's about it. Pickford is a potentially good keeper, but I'm not on the Heaton fan bus.

Outside of England, I guess we all start relying on the limited foreign footy that we watch but Leno and Rui Patricio instantly spring to mind as top keepers who aren't at massive clubs, whilst the likes of Donarumma who looks to be one of the continent's next top stars are probably unrealistic.

But the 'available' aspect is the crux of the matter.

All very well listing goalies, if none are available it's just a list.

And if they're available yet no better, what's the use?

 

[mawders]

Joel didn't have the best game against the RS, but who did? There are only 3, maybe 4 keepers I'd have over Joel in the PL, and Pickford isn't one of them

 

[tommye]

C

 

[tommye]

R

 

[tommye]

A

 

[tommye]

P

 

[Paul w]

De gea, courtois,Forster,schmichel,foster,lloris, cech, Pickford,butland, heaton.

Joel didn't have the best game against the RS, but who did? There are only 3, maybe 4 keepers I'd have over Joel in the PL, and Pickford isn't one of them

 

[DRINGO]

De Gea Should have saved that ! he's not good enough ! cross him off our possible list !

 

[andy4efc]

Haven't been on since last week.

Should have saved the third for the Derby, not sure what he was doing, but first two he had absolutely no chance.

 

[Brahford]

Good save

 

[ijjysmith]

Done well so far.