Confirmed Signing Robin Olsen

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You could find the same for any keeper. He's a small upgrade on Lossl but not much more. He is big but does not play to his size if that makes sense.
 

Everton and back up keepers eh. Never good enough to challenge for starting place and pickford knows it. Until we get a serious keeper he stays in goal which is madness.
 
Here is a breakdown of shots on target this season against Pickford:
Spurs had 5, one he saved well with his feet, one was a good stop on Alli, the other three were very easy.
West Brom had 4. Two went in. One was more or less right at him from a tightish angle at the start and the other was from further out than the two that went in.
Palace had 1. It went in. Probably not savable but a header from that range coming in from that far out is questionable commanding of the box.
Brighton had 3. Two went in. The one that didn't was a scuffed volley that anyone above u12 level would have caught and directly led to a goal.

So Pickford has so far saved 8 of 13 shots on target which on the surface is perfectly fine. But when you dig deeper he has essentially made two useful saves on 7 opportunities. It isn't good enough. He's conceded 3 times outside the box already. Not good enough. He's made a massive blunder for a goal already (without even factoring in the cup games) which is also not good enough. Every ball into the 6 yard box is a crisis because he doesn't deal with them confidently or straightforwardly ever. Not good enough.

It doesn't matter who it is we are bringing in, he's going to play matches.
 
TheBigIguana said:
Here is a breakdown of shots on target this season against Pickford:
Spurs had 5, one he saved well with his feet, one was a good stop on Alli, the other three were very easy.
West Brom had 4. Two went in. One was more or less right at him from a tightish angle at the start and the other was from further out than the two that went in.
Palace had 1. It went in. Probably not savable but a header from that range coming in from that far out is questionable commanding of the box.
Brighton had 3. Two went in. The one that didn't was a scuffed volley that anyone above u12 level would have caught and directly led to a goal.

So Pickford has so far saved 8 of 13 shots on target which on the surface is perfectly fine. But when you dig deeper he has essentially made two useful saves on 7 opportunities. It isn't good enough. He's conceded 3 times outside the box already. Not good enough. He's made a massive blunder for a goal already (without even factoring in the cup games) which is also not good enough. Every ball into the 6 yard box is a crisis because he doesn't deal with them confidently or straightforwardly ever. Not good enough.

It doesn't matter who it is we are bringing in, he's going to play matches.
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I dunno, it would take a brave, brave manager to drop Pickford.

I know Carlo is probably that man, but it would be quite huge.
 


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