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Eric Djemba-Djemba
Player Valuation: £60m
Christ. I know we need a new keeper but some people are being way too harsh. Joel was the only one that bothered to turn up the last few months of the season. He had a bad game against Sunderland, big deal. Most players had about 15 bad games in a row.
Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
We've had a damn sight worse than Joel since Big Nev hung up his boots for us. Still think we need a strong number1 but the fact that we only have Joel says signing a new keeper is a given (not Shay)
Perfectly fine as back up
Worked hard last year and had some good games
He wouldn't be my first choice GK though
Worked hard last year and had some good games
He wouldn't be my first choice GK though
Toffe3m4n
Player Valuation: £80m
Obviously Koeman instantly spotted this clown was not good enough to be our number one or Milk Cup keeper.
Hart and Stickleback to be his cover.
Robles will probably play out the rest of his contract playing for the under 23's
Hart and Stickleback to be his cover.
Robles will probably play out the rest of his contract playing for the under 23's
kithnou
Player Valuation: £70m
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/royal-blue-evertons-no2-not-11995712
Royal Blue: Why Everton's No2 may not be Joel Robles anymore
Ronald Koeman doesn’t strike you as the type of manager to lose sleep over decisions.
But however experienced and unflappable the Blues boss appears to be, surely he would be uneasy at this scenario.
Consider the, very real, possibility that Maarten Stekelenburg picks up an injury.
The Dutch goalkeeper is the only ever-present in Everton’s season and, though there have been some wobbles here and there, his arrival has brought calm to a problem position.
But what would Koeman do if he was sidelined?
The obvious solution would be to call up Joel Robles but you have to question if he is actually the man best placed to deputise.
The reason? Mateusz Hewelt.
Because should Stekelenburg get injured then Koeman would have to decide whether to replace him with Robles, the club’s established No2 but a goalkeeper who has played just once (for the u-23s) all season, or with the young, confident and active Hewelt?
Word from inside Finch Farm is that Hewelt has made an impression on Koeman’s goalkeeping coach Patrick Lodewijks and his performance in Tuesday night’s EFL Trophy defeat at Cheltenham Town will have done his chance little harm.
With the young Blues leading the game, but under the cosh at the end of the first-half, Hewelt first stormed decisively from his line to punch away a threatening free-kick pumped into Everton’s area before brilliantly smothering Cheltenham striker Amari Morgan-Smith’s shot as he raced clean through.
Mateusz Hewelt, Everton
Within a frantic minute at Whaddon Road, the 20-year-old displayed the confidence and quality to make you sit up and take note, and though he was helpless to prevent the Blues’ late collapse, he still defiantly produced a fine save in time added-on to keep his side in the game that touch longer.
But what he lacks, and what Robles has, is experience.
More to the point, Premier League experience.
Joel Robles of Everton watches a shot from Wahbi Khazri of Sunderland go wide
Robles has played the waiting game before, he knows it better than most, but in a season where Koeman had, initially at least, openly questioned his desire to fight for his place then you wonder how much fight he has left in him?
And having bided his time to topple Tim Howard as Everton’s No1, the shirt was taken from him as soon as Stekelenburg signed in from Fulham.
In the Spaniard’s defence, last month the Everton manager said he’d seen improvements in the player’s mentality: “He is disappointed after the decision we took about the goalkeeper position but he has had time to fight against that disappointment and he is now doing well and giving competition to the first goalkeeper.”
That, however, was said on the eve of Everton’s EFL Cup tie with Norwich City last month when Koeman dangled the possibility to handing Robles his first senior start of the season.
Maarten Stekelenburg gives his team mates instructions
He didn’t. Stekelenburg kept his place and the Spaniard suffered another slap in the face,
Where that leaves Robles, only Koeman knows.
Maybe, when push comes to shove, the manager would see past Robles’ disappointment and favour experience over youth.
But it won’t be a simple decision for Koeman and such a situation reinforces the belief that Everton need to bolster their goalkeeping options.
Joe Hart
Koeman rejected the idea of signing Joe Hart, saying he would expect to be installed as No1, so the search goes on into the next transfer window to find a quality goalkeeper who expects to have to fight for the shirt.
For the moment, that fight’s between Robles and Hewelt. Koeman may yet have to decide whose arm is raised.
Royal Blue: Why Everton's No2 may not be Joel Robles anymore
- 19:00, 7 OCT 2016
- BY PHIL KIRKBRIDE
Ronald Koeman doesn’t strike you as the type of manager to lose sleep over decisions.
But however experienced and unflappable the Blues boss appears to be, surely he would be uneasy at this scenario.
Consider the, very real, possibility that Maarten Stekelenburg picks up an injury.
The Dutch goalkeeper is the only ever-present in Everton’s season and, though there have been some wobbles here and there, his arrival has brought calm to a problem position.
But what would Koeman do if he was sidelined?
The obvious solution would be to call up Joel Robles but you have to question if he is actually the man best placed to deputise.
The reason? Mateusz Hewelt.
Because should Stekelenburg get injured then Koeman would have to decide whether to replace him with Robles, the club’s established No2 but a goalkeeper who has played just once (for the u-23s) all season, or with the young, confident and active Hewelt?
Word from inside Finch Farm is that Hewelt has made an impression on Koeman’s goalkeeping coach Patrick Lodewijks and his performance in Tuesday night’s EFL Trophy defeat at Cheltenham Town will have done his chance little harm.
With the young Blues leading the game, but under the cosh at the end of the first-half, Hewelt first stormed decisively from his line to punch away a threatening free-kick pumped into Everton’s area before brilliantly smothering Cheltenham striker Amari Morgan-Smith’s shot as he raced clean through.
Mateusz Hewelt, Everton
Within a frantic minute at Whaddon Road, the 20-year-old displayed the confidence and quality to make you sit up and take note, and though he was helpless to prevent the Blues’ late collapse, he still defiantly produced a fine save in time added-on to keep his side in the game that touch longer.
But what he lacks, and what Robles has, is experience.
More to the point, Premier League experience.
Joel Robles of Everton watches a shot from Wahbi Khazri of Sunderland go wide
Robles has played the waiting game before, he knows it better than most, but in a season where Koeman had, initially at least, openly questioned his desire to fight for his place then you wonder how much fight he has left in him?
And having bided his time to topple Tim Howard as Everton’s No1, the shirt was taken from him as soon as Stekelenburg signed in from Fulham.
In the Spaniard’s defence, last month the Everton manager said he’d seen improvements in the player’s mentality: “He is disappointed after the decision we took about the goalkeeper position but he has had time to fight against that disappointment and he is now doing well and giving competition to the first goalkeeper.”
That, however, was said on the eve of Everton’s EFL Cup tie with Norwich City last month when Koeman dangled the possibility to handing Robles his first senior start of the season.
Maarten Stekelenburg gives his team mates instructions
He didn’t. Stekelenburg kept his place and the Spaniard suffered another slap in the face,
Where that leaves Robles, only Koeman knows.
Maybe, when push comes to shove, the manager would see past Robles’ disappointment and favour experience over youth.
But it won’t be a simple decision for Koeman and such a situation reinforces the belief that Everton need to bolster their goalkeeping options.
Joe Hart
Koeman rejected the idea of signing Joe Hart, saying he would expect to be installed as No1, so the search goes on into the next transfer window to find a quality goalkeeper who expects to have to fight for the shirt.
For the moment, that fight’s between Robles and Hewelt. Koeman may yet have to decide whose arm is raised.
Haha Koeman has seen right through Robles.
Rightfully so, he is a clown.
Rightfully so, he is a clown.
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Blue Horse
Player Valuation: £500k
So what if he's a clown. We gave Tim the clown Howard a big send off at the end of May after two years of flapping at crosses and costing us point's every other week.
Seen right through him has Koeman, well played Ronald.
Robles hasn't done much wrong and those calling him a clown......are clowns.
Eggsyblueskin
Player Valuation: £40m
Robles seems a decent lad, but he is a pretty ordinary goalkeeper. Nothing wrong with that but I would prefer an above average goal keeper. At the moment Stekelenburg is a far better keeper.
1966efc
Player Valuation: £20m
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