I recall him playing one game during a keeper crisis against Chelsea. We won 1-0 at Stamford Bridge if memory serves me.
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I recall him playing one game during a keeper crisis against Chelsea. We won 1-0 at Stamford Bridge if memory serves me.
This thread is three pages deep and it's my first time clicking on it.
Meh.
I never know what to do with subs keepers. On one hand, I want a decent one to keep the pressure on the #1 to perform. But then you don't want to be wasting money (fee and wages) on someone who won't play.
Meh.
I never know what to do with subs keepers. On one hand, I want a decent one to keep the pressure on the #1 to perform. But then you don't want to be wasting money (fee and wages) on someone who won't play.
Why are people moaning about this? A solid backup on a free (and probably lowish wages), no complaints.
We want two (at least) good options for each outfield position and I don't think that's any less necessary for the keeper's role. Where I would agree with some of the criticism above is in questioning why we don't use good youth keepers. If our current youth keepers aren't good enough, go out and get better ones (and recruit more successfully in the first place, replacing those currently doing the recruiting if necessary).
Yep. Although it's one of life's little mysteries why the biggest clubs, with their huge catchment areas and expensive academies, don't seem to produce even half-decent young keepers, while smaller clubs seem to manage it - some of them so well that they end up selling them to the big clubs.
Looking at the Premier League retained list here:
http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/...clubs-submit-retained-and-released-lists.html
Seems we've offered Ward a new contract. Vigouroux, one of the U21 keepers, signed a new 2-year contract a short while back. Both these guys are 21, so I suppose if Ward extends, one of the two (probably Ward) will go on loan to get playing time and experience, while the other stays as the 3rd keeper.
http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/...clubs-submit-retained-and-released-lists.html
Seems we've offered Ward a new contract. Vigouroux, one of the U21 keepers, signed a new 2-year contract a short while back. Both these guys are 21, so I suppose if Ward extends, one of the two (probably Ward) will go on loan to get playing time and experience, while the other stays as the 3rd keeper.
Vigouroux looks quite promising. Ward always strikes me as a cocky little fellow who's been allowed to coast here, knows it and likes it. Fulton at least has a bit of character to him and shows some aggression when organising the defence. I'd stick with those two. Ward needs to go somewhere and be made to work damned hard.
I like Fulton best out of these few guys as well - seems the most commanding of the lot, albeit that's only from the U18 and U21 games.
I really like the look of Vigouroux, he looks assured and confident for a young keeper.
Smartprice?
Well, as I said earlier, are we coaching them, or just using them to make the goal seem a bit smaller? Because there's no reason why we shouldn't produce promising keepers, along with outfielders. But we don't, and, a bit worryingly, the several goalkeeping coaches we've got never seem to get the slightest bit of scrutiny about it. I fear there's a self-fulfilling prophesy going on there: the coaches assume that even if they DID sweat blood developing a young keeper, the manager would always go and get an expensive keeper aged 25+ from elsewhere, so they just go through the motions and we don't even sell any for a fee. And the keepers themselves know they probably won't get a proper chance so they, too, just idle away the years until they get a move to some lower division team.
Carra:
[article] "The latest player on his way to Liverpool looks to be the goalkeeper Adam Bogdan from Bolton to act as back up to Simon Mignolet.
"The supporters understandably want to see supposed big names and big money spent but the club should be given credit for getting three deals done already as there is very little activity regarding transfers from any clubs at this stage.
"Also if Liverpool bring some money in from transfers that could also alter who they go for so it maybe a waiting game for the bigger transfers."[/article]
[article] "The latest player on his way to Liverpool looks to be the goalkeeper Adam Bogdan from Bolton to act as back up to Simon Mignolet.
"The supporters understandably want to see supposed big names and big money spent but the club should be given credit for getting three deals done already as there is very little activity regarding transfers from any clubs at this stage.
"Also if Liverpool bring some money in from transfers that could also alter who they go for so it maybe a waiting game for the bigger transfers."[/article]
There's no credit due for getting deals done early when they're as uninspiring as ours. They could sign me in a heartbeat, and cheaply, doesn't make it a good deal.
Probably because we should sign a defen 1st choice keeper and use mings as back up as he's pretty dodge
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