He needs to be tried out in pre-season next to Tarkowski.
We all know what Keane, Holgate and Godfrey can give us, Dyche should know too.
He needs to be tried out in pre-season next to Tarkowski.
We all know what Keane, Holgate and Godfrey can give us, Dyche should know too.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
I think you've got this the wrong way around.
Move him on and bring in 2 players who are greater than the benefit of keeping him.
This is the right idea.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
When did the club ever do this?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
In some respects, others not.
Milk
Udderly delicious
Might as well go for Ortega at City then. Looks as good as Edison
windymiller
Player Valuation: £50m
Isn't that a hospital in California?
Signing back-up keepers is a nightmare to be fair. You can't really go for a young prospect as they're just wasted on the bench, you can't entice a number 1 to be a 2, so they have to usually be people like 32+ who have a history of it.
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
It really is as simple as: we have to find a way to get goals in, or we're probably down. If we can do that without gutting the decent defense we had, we're comfortably up.
The debate is about how to best accomplish both of those objectives, and the relative value of the potential tradeoffs.
The debate is about how to best accomplish both of those objectives, and the relative value of the potential tradeoffs.
Blue peter
Player Valuation: £25m
We went for Richarlison and signed him….there were rumours (admittedly only reported) of the South American kid that went to Real Madrid). Kudus was 22 and not getting first team action we were reportedly interested in him. Lukaku was not getting first team action and was young but we managed to snag him. More recently Garner - young, not getting regular first team action with his parent club. This has been incredibly infrequent and I am not isolating it to just examples of people not getting First team action, but generally younger players with upside, so we have done it in previous seasons just not on a consistent basis. Its what we then do, if our main strategy does not work.
Soon to be free agent keepers: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/tra..._id=alle&altersklasse=alle&land_id=0&yt0=Show
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
No keepers are perfect, the dis advantages have to be balanced against the advantages.
Me at times think back to Gordon West, Andy Rankin and of course Big Nev.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £80m
Lots of people said we’d never get Lukaku at the time, either on loan or permanently but he wanted to play football. We need a signing of that sort of ambition upfront again.
An attacking star or two can completely transform a team. Even these players showed that they could keep clean sheets when ahead in games, and also come back when one down. Imagine some of those games where we might have scored a second to make it comfortable, or scored first v Villa, Fulham, Leicester, Wolves etc. turning them into wins. It spreads confidence throughout the entire team.
Dwight K Schrute
Player Valuation: £20m
Again, in normal circumstances. Our squad is diabolical, as a result of recruitment that is beyond shocking. We will be fighting relegation again. The teams that went down all had average or poor GKs - same as last year. People underestimate the difference a good GK makes at the business ends of the table. You can only really get away with average GKs if you are a comfortable mid-table team. Even if we have better recruitment than usual this summer, there is no guarantee that will be the case for us. Would be mad to move Pickford on in our current state.
Generally I agree with you - we've had enough conversations to that effect on here - I want young talent acquired from across the world. But part of realising where we are should not be getting in established players who are 26 plus (something I'm sure Dyche will be pushing for), but rather, trying to keep hold of the few good players we have.
In Pickford's case, if he has another good season, he will still have suitors next summer. If we have gone some way to sorting out the rest of the squad and have finished comfortably in mid-table, we could look to move him on and invest then. If we sell him and look to get a really good GK to replace him this summer, a huge chunk of the cash generated would have to go on his replacement. What's the point?
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £80m
Apart from Courtois, Oblak, maybe Ter Stegen, I don’t see many absolutely top class keepers around. It shows at international level as well with the best keepers at recent tournaments being Pickford and Livakovic who aren’t at top clubs.
Even in the prem when you look at Lloris Kepa Mendy De Gea Ramsdale they’re poor keepers who make lots of errors. I don’t rate Allison and Ederson that highly either, the former making far too many errors and is awful with his feet but has the most favourable media reporting of any keeper, and the latter being a terrible shot stopper who had the luxury of barely facing any shots.
We’d have to be very astute with our scouting to find the next up and coming keeper because the top clubs with unlimited budgets can’t seem to find decent ones. We have a very good keeper, better than most of the names there and on the rung just below the very top tier of Courtois and Oblak.
Blue peter
Player Valuation: £25m
Yeah it absolutely does….people saying we don’t create as many chances as we should, which was reasonably accurate pre Dyche, it got better under Dyche but having someone in whom the players have confidence up front is a massive part of that, so having that little bit of star quality is essential. Completely agree that is the profile we should be going after, the only concern is, as I say our overall strategy not containing a Plan B, or possibly having one which we never see enacted because we persist with Plan A for too long. An example of this would be Kurt Zouma, not exactly young as he was 24 at the time, but we persisted in trying to get him for too long. There has to be a cut off point. I appreciate I’ve probably addressed a number of issues around our strategy there.
