Keepers
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Do we concede our goals because our keepers have not been good at distribution, or is it because they're not good enough at shot stopping or commanding the area? I say the latter. Look at the goals we have conceded this year. Our biggest problem has been a higher than average conversion rate of shots to goals by the opposition. He can learn to act as a sweeper keeper, but i'm not bothered if he is only ever average at it. We're not a City passing teams to death with the keeper needing to be an amazing passer. If he saves everything he's meant to save along with a percentage of 'how the fuck he get that?', added to bossing crosses (all things he does amazingly well), then it is a no brainer.
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I hate teasing myself about Oblak, because it isn't going to happen, but he is the fucking man. He looks hard. He looks absolutely unflappable. He looks like the opposite of what we've had for far too long.
But then again, you can make a strong case that GK's are undervalued in the market relative to their importance to the team and results. Goals are the most important thing in football, so why aren't players on the last line of defense valued as much as strikers?
On that note, 5 EPL clubs – a quarter of the league! – have voted for their goalkeeper as the player of the season. Perhaps with football becoming more open and attacking, the importance of goalkeepers is actually growing. More and more teams, particularly top teams, prefer to commit numbers forward and defend in a way that inevitably leads to defensive breakdowns, where the skill of the goalkeeper becomes the difference between winning and losing.
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It’s not my cash though. And the club is absolutely loaded.
Good point. Looking at Utd, you could say De Gea is their most important and most valuable player.
If Oblak can have a similar effect on our team then you could justify that fee. He could be our nr 1 GK for 10 years.
I posted some stats on shot-stopping before. Here's some on distribution and sweeper-keeping (EPL only):
If you click on the bottom-right picture in the 2nd tweet, you will see proof that Karius has been the best at sweeper-keeping in the league this season. Obviously on distribution Ederson and Bravo are dominating the competition.
If you click on the bottom-right picture in the 2nd tweet, you will see proof that Karius has been the best at sweeper-keeping in the league this season. Obviously on distribution Ederson and Bravo are dominating the competition.
I've said it before, nothing would make me happier than signing Jan Oblak, except, signing him and him getting a song to the tune of Back In Black, by AC DC.
[clap] [clap clap] [clap clap] Na na na na na na na na...
Jan Oblak,
Is at the back,
Been too long, now it's coming back.... you get the drift.
I agree. Plus, as Ruud Gullitt said "a goal keeper is a goal keeper because they can't play football."
Rui Patricio is gonna terminate his contract after Sporting caused problems in his transfer to wolves, which was only on the cards because Mendes got involved and his transfer to Napoli fell through.
Don't know anything about him other he plays for Portugal, he's 30, Napoli wanted him, therefore he's better than anything we've had for ages
Don't know anything about him other he plays for Portugal, he's 30, Napoli wanted him, therefore he's better than anything we've had for ages
Dont mean to be a dick but United have finished outside the top 4 three times in the last 5 years
Dick
Ha. I meant, the same way as last season.
Oblak as good as he is, he is also fortunate to have an outstanding defence around him, something Alisson does not have.
Overruled, eh? That would be the day.
Yeah, saw that. Very hard to get excited when Don Ballox are publishing it.
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