KeithLard
Advisor to the Owner
Irrelevant. The goalkeeper position isn't a rotated position.
Woodman and Iverson both top quality number 1s and that is all that matters.
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Summer Transfers 2022 : Rumours and Discussion
- Thread starter Mr Meeseeks
- Start date
Woodman and Iverson both top quality number 1s and that is all that matters.
We seem to be quickly moving to expectation management...
Christ above man, Kelleher is one of the most highly rated keepers in the country. Klopp views him as natural successor to Alisson. What have you been smoking?
Realistically, our budget is not going to allow us to have 2 quality players in every position immediately.
I'd rather have a quality 1st XI and hope for some luck with injuries across the season.
Think of it this way -
Is it better to have one 8/10 keeper and one 2/10 keeper, or two 5/10 keepers?
Yes, we will need to ride our luck with injuries, but any team with our finances that gets promotion needs a big slice of good fortune.
We are well overdue some... maybe it's our year.
I'd rather have a quality 1st XI and hope for some luck with injuries across the season.
Think of it this way -
Is it better to have one 8/10 keeper and one 2/10 keeper, or two 5/10 keepers?
Yes, we will need to ride our luck with injuries, but any team with our finances that gets promotion needs a big slice of good fortune.
We are well overdue some... maybe it's our year.
FANofALLfooty
Manager
He seems like the type of guy that chats shit about footy and everyone ignores him cos he ain't got a clue
Probably unfair on Kellerher tbf but point still remains about City’s backup options and they’ve got more money than anyone.
FANofALLfooty
Manager
I think we should buy a better keeper than woodman and have him has back up keeper (both on decent wages) just incase 1 gets injured but in doing this we can only buy 1 more player cos most of budget as gone on 2 strong goalkeeper's.....everyone ok with this?
FANofALLfooty
Manager
Finally someone with a bit of common sense and understands budget restraints
Chortle.
But it's not just about injury. It's about form.
If you only have one decent keeper, you can't ever drop him if he has a poor run of form.
You need competition for the place, as you do across the team.
I'm guessing you're proposing loaning in all the other players we need (another striker, two wing backs, centre half)?
Or Iversen/Ripley considering Rudd missed every game from October onwards. We can all make things fit an agenda.
I thought we were moving away from the strategy of hoping to win promotion through luck.
Get a decent #2 or pay the price somewhere down the line.
I'd prefer that young kid, Joshua O aged 21, who has just been released by Spurs, not some journeyman who struggles to even see out his journey at each lower level club he stops at.
The words "lower level club" concern me extremely given his age of 30 (ish).
Avoid Cornell.
Smacks of cheap, penny pinching and mugging the fans off who have bought into this summers rhetoric.
I'd prefer that young kid, Joshua O aged 21, who has just been released by Spurs, not some journeyman who struggles to even see out his journey at each lower level club he stops at.
The words "lower level club" concern me extremely given his age of 30 (ish).
Avoid Cornell.
Smacks of cheap, penny pinching and mugging the fans off who have bought into this summers rhetoric.
Pnebraddy87
First Team
Don’t think anybody is expecting us to go and spend decent money on a back up keeper but would hope for a bit more imagination for some young talent that is keen to come and do battle with Woodman with the promise of at least cup minutes.
Sign a keeper that is never going to challenge and you run the risk of No1. Becoming complacent with the lack of competition.
I guess the other argument is the club believe they have a decent young keeper on their hands in Pradic and Woodman is also only 25 so where does another young keeper fit in.
I think having woodman and a lower budget keeper as back up isn’t bad if we are keeping money to side for strengthening considerably in other positions. If the shit really hits the fan and woodman gets injured and 2nd choice turns out to be a Ripley we can always utilise the emergency loan market. Loaning keepers hasn’t really failed us yet 😄
I think it’s quite deluded to think we can get another GK in of similar-ish quality to compete when GKs know you’re highly unlikely to get a game unless the starting GK gets injured. Good GKs aren’t going to be sitting on the bench in the championship waiting for that moment. Premier League yes, but not where we are. So sadly we are either going to get a young unproven released GK or a journeyman GK.
But why go for a 31yr old 2/10 keeper? Why not (as per my earlier post) go for a 23yr old with a point to prove who can be pushing Woodman in training. Get a young ex-Prem Academy release who will be happy to play cup games and be a reserve but be hungry and wanting to be number 1? Sign someone hungry and aiming to improve themselves, a current 2/10 who could become a 6 or an 8...
HemmingsHappyClapper
Manager
This, I don’t get the negativity. Derby fans love him
Also for those saying “we don’t play a 10”, when Browne and Johnson have a bad game, WE have a bad game, this would be good backup/competition/ a more attacking option to bring on to change games
He's had attitude problems wherever he's been, and has spent the last decade failing to live up to the potential he supposedly had. Sounds like a Billy big bollocks, which isn't good for dressing rooms.
Could it be that Cornell and the young lad from Spurs are being signed? Having 3 would potentially enable Oluwayemi to develop elsewhere with a loan spell?