Potential Brendan listening to Dreamy over Ryan shocker!
Tony Evans webchat...
- Thread starter Buddha
- Start date
- Latest activity Latest activity:
- Status
Potential Brendan listening to Dreamy over Ryan shocker!
Yes. He's actually been doing this cynical routine since Rafa's day. Every so often he'd be on TalkSport declaring that our best players were all off and we were doomed. He's the Private Frazer of LFC.
he did say that we would buy if we thought the player was right for us. He also said Borini would be leaving, so going from having 3 strikers and 1 out on loan, to having 2 is unlikely.
it's exactly that. what a blert.
What makes you think this? I'm not being an arse, at least, not intentionally so, just curious.
yeah mingolet is wank.
He was thrown in front of a new back line, at a new club, with higher expectations. We didn't concede a goal until Swansea away, and even that was unlucky. And even then... Was that down to the change in personnel on front of him?
You find me a keeper at ANY club who doesn't make a blunder I'll show you the greatest keeper to ever walk the earth.
He's not a sweeper keeper at the minute, but that can be coached in to him. He's still learning that.
His distribution improved DRAMATICALLY over the season.
I've no doubt this season, when he's more comfortable, when he knows who the first choice Cb pairing is, and when they aren't getting pulled out of position by shite full backs, he'll be much improved.
De gea was a flappy cunt but he's turned in to a fine keeper.
Sure Mignolet has adapted to this league before, but when your team is Sunderland and your defence is camped in your box due to the perpetual onslaught, I'm sure it'd take a hit of time to get used to your new role
You're right, he does deserve time, and I don't think our setup helps at times by a) being so open and b) being made up of players who are prone to error - Skrtel, Johnson, Agger, Sakho, Toure all had gaffs in them last season, as did the protecting midfield infront of them.
Let's see what he's like behind a proper solid midfielder and a decent organiser at the back.
Let's see what he's like behind a proper solid midfielder and a decent organiser at the back.
He didn't do any of those things before we bought him. Which begs the question...
Yes. I felt bombing Reina out of the club was pretty rash given that fact. As far as I can see, we either bought Mignolet and ignored those limitations and decided to gamble with him anyway, which seems absurd. Or we bought him with the view that he could be coached very quickly to improve on all of those aspects, which seems much more plausible but still not a good enough reason to immediately jettison the old first choice keeper. If it WAS the second reason, then presumably it was thought Achterberg was a good enough keeper coach to speed this process up. Now that surely WAS a mistake. I'd have thought a priority now is to bring in a genuinely top class goalkeeping coach.
reina wanted to leave.
The Evans explanation of it being a purely financial exercise makes the most sense perhaps?
Well he damned well didn't sound like it with all of his weepy open letters. Anyway, Suarez wanted to leave as well. You don't usually let them go until it suits you. Brad Jones is hardly a great option to fall back on if your new keeper fails to progress quickly enough.
I think there's even more to it than that, I think Rodgers wanted players here who were fully committed, and having seen him constantly whoring himself around Europe over the last few seasons, he bombed him out. When Rodgers came in, I don't think there was anything realistic on the cards for Reina, a move to Barca was looking like it was gonna be another year away. Then there's the wages too.
Agree with a fair bit of that, macca, but one aspect it doesn't cover is the part played by Reina himself in all this. He looked pretty uninterested in more than a few games when he was still in the side, and there were occasional quotes from him in the media which sounded too much like him trailing his coat in front of Barca for comfort. The weepiness came later after the prospect of a move seemed to fade.
Oh yes, sure, although he did lose the weight and improved a bit after the first part of the season. I'm only saying that it was a bit cavalier just to boot him off before Mignolet was even tested OR bring in better back up. Rodgers clearly disliked Reina so as you say there was no surprise with what happened, but it was still a bit rash. The thing now is that we have a great outfield coach who genuinely improves players, but we have a goalkeeping coach who doesn't improve keepers - if anything, it's the opposite. So at the very least we need to up our game in that area.
that sort of presupposes that a goalie is dependent on a good CB and Mid - you could argue that having Ming at the back, no authority and error prone, is causing the defence to suffer....
Ochoa on a free seems and brainer
How is his English? I have no idea at all but it would help if it was good.
- Status
