Joel Robles

4737carlin · January 23, 2017

Joey66 said:
Still rather buy a cheaper younger back up keeper if Robles keeps his form going, as we need outfield players particularly if Lukaku is injured or decides to move on!

This is true, people are forgetting we still need a lot of players, even if we go onto spend 80m in the rest of this window and the summer I dont think we would have enough to go out and get better then Joel from that budget while sorting out the basic needs of the rest of the squad.

maccavennie · January 23, 2017

Joey66 said:
Still rather buy a cheaper younger back up keeper if Robles keeps his form going, as we need outfield players particularly if Lukaku is injured or decides to move on!

Spend spend spend Joey!!! Deffo need another striker regardless if he stays or goes as we are one injury away from a Kone!

Papa Shango · January 23, 2017

Aberblue said:
Oh dear. I 'm the first to admit that Robles has done surprising ly well this season, but to say he's never really screwed up is nonsense. Without checking, there's Southampton in his first season; his comedy display against some Russian team in a dead rubber; howlers V Barnsley and Sunderland last term. I'm fairly sure there have been others.

Most of those games were random ones where he was thrown into the team.

Takes time to settle in goal and form a bond with your defence.

Joey66 · January 23, 2017

maccavennie said:
Spend spend spend Joey!!! Deffo need another striker regardless if he stays or goes as we are one injury away from a Kone!

Spend spend not on another top Keeper we may not need!

maccavennie · January 23, 2017

Joey66 said:
Spend spend not on another top Keeper we may not need!

Good to have competition Joey, you know if Joel gets injured who comes in? Stekkers and let's be honest since Burnley away he's been utter garbage.

Joey66 · January 23, 2017

maccavennie said:
Good to have competition Joey, you know if Joel gets injured who comes in? Stekkers and let's be honest since Burnley away he's been utter garbage.

Hence a young two million understudy, save 18 million

maccavennie · January 23, 2017

Joey66 said:
Hence a young two million understudy, save 18 million

If we get Pickford for 2m mate I'll be happy lol

joey_macmo · January 23, 2017

Aberblue said:
Oh dear. I 'm the first to admit that Robles has done surprising ly well this season, but to say he's never really screwed up is nonsense. Without checking, there's Southampton in his first season; his comedy display against some Russian team in a dead rubber; howlers V Barnsley and Sunderland last term. I'm fairly sure there have been others.

There is absolutely tons mate, made up he's improved massively but he is coming to a level which is acceptable now, nothing more.

He wasn't even the best Keeper on the pitch Saturday yet people are comparing him to De Gea again.

Joey66 · January 24, 2017

maccavennie said:
If we get Pickford for 2m mate I'll be happy lol

In your dreamslol

Wizard · January 24, 2017

Aberblue said:
Oh dear. I 'm the first to admit that Robles has done surprising ly well this season, but to say he's never really screwed up is nonsense. Without checking, there's Southampton in his first season; his comedy display against some Russian team in a dead rubber; howlers V Barnsley and Sunderland last term. I'm fairly sure there have been others.

Fair enough. I did say I can't really remember. Sure he has made some mistakes. Guess what I mean is that I don't find myself worrying when he plays whereas as some speak as though he is an accident waiting to happen.

Huyton Layne · January 24, 2017

Let's be fair to him too. He's probably only been seeing corners in practice for about 6 months. We know the last regime didn't practice then so how is the keeper supposed to get a feel for when to come.

Roger Milla · January 24, 2017

I've received a bit of stick in here all season for suggesting Joel is superior to Stek lol

It's no coincidence the results and defenders performances both improve when he's been in goal.

TheGhostOfBolasie · January 24, 2017

Joel = miles better than Stek

smileychap · January 24, 2017

RFUS said:
Think confidence is a scale which affects everything. And mental resilience really influences how a player maintains their confidence. Contrast Ibra and say, Torres. Ibra can go 10 games without scoring but he's resilient, that confidence is still there and he'll score in the 11th game and then go on a run.

Torres on the other hand just lost that belief to the point where mocking websites with measurements of how long it'd been since he scored popped up. Of course other things impacted his situation (being overworked and losing a yard of pace), but you get my point.

Once Stek made his first mistake for us (at home against Southampton where to be fair it was a foul, but still he was weak vs Austin and it dropped into the net) he seemed to make more and more. It will be a big test for Joel when he makes his next mistake. Hopefully he'll shrug it off.

Yeah can see your point - if true then hopefully way he's taken his chance in after being 2nd fiddle to Stek is an example of staying tough and being able to bounce back, albeit that's not the same as coping with stick over a 'howler' as such.

Torres lampooning was also due to his vastly inflated fee after a general downward spiral in form over time. I still don't know who represented the biggest waste of cash him, or Carroll! Not that I lost sleep over either

4737carlin · January 24, 2017

Wizard said:
Fair enough. I did say I can't really remember. Sure he has made some mistakes. Guess what I mean is that I don't find myself worrying when he plays whereas as some speak as though he is an accident waiting to happen.

Thats because they decided that before the season had started, before they had really watched him, and now they have seen him are too embarrassed to admit they are totally wrong.