2020/21 Robin Olsen

[davids]

Calamity?! He made a bad bad error for the third goal and apparently he's not good enough despite making a superb triple save against Leeds, It's just absolute gutter talk. We're not finding a faultless keeper so you need to accept that right now.

Thing is he had to make the triple save from a situation of his own making.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

....I don’t think Pickford is very good and I don’t think Olsen is very good.

Our goalkeeper selection is more about ‘who’s the least worst’, than ‘who’s the best’.

The issue needs to be resolved, we need a good goalkeeper.

He's a bog standard keeper - the sort you would see rock up at a Newcastle or Crystal Palace type outfit.

I think we need better but do think we'll end up signing him.

The reality is if he signs he aint 1st choice - Carlo loves Pickford and will keep him as no1 for the foreseeable sadly.

 

[JMT]

Thing is he had to make the triple save from a situation of his own making.

yeah and if they scored from it people would be tearing him a new one and rightfully so, Guess he can't win.
Pack it up the boo boys have selected the next target after 4 games.

 

[Yarrgh]

....I don’t think Pickford is very good and I don’t think Olsen is very good.

Our goalkeeper selection is more about ‘who’s the least worst’, than ‘who’s the best’.

The issue needs to be resolved, we need a good goalkeeper.

But who will take Pickford off us to clear space for a good keeper? I suspect he would be easy enough to get out the door on a loan basis for the rest of his contract, but if that's the price of success so be it?

I just mentioned in the goalkeeping thread that it will come down to opportunism on a new keeper as I suspect strengthening the outfield will have more impact per pound spent. Having said that, getting it right in other positions will only highlight the deficiencies of this position. I think we might have to wait until the 23 summer window for this position unless an unmissable opportunity becomes available.

I do hope that Brands, Ancelotti, et al. have a plan for this position. Olsen seems too much of a stop gap for a team aiming to break the top 4.

 

[JMT]

He's a bog standard keeper - the sort you would see rock up at a Newcastle or Crystal Palace type outfit.

I think we need better but do think we'll end up signing him.

The reality is if he signs he aint 1st choice - Carlo loves Pickford and will keep him as no1 for the foreseeable sadly.

That's what we want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[riddick]

He's a bog standard keeper - the sort you would see rock up at a Newcastle or Crystal Palace type outfit.

I think we need better but do think we'll end up signing him.

The reality is if he signs he aint 1st choice - Carlo loves Pickford and will keep him as no1 for the foreseeable sadly.

I just don't see that at all. There is 0 reason to "rest" keepers. Hell, the most any of ours have had to do in the last couple weeks was Olsen running up the pitch for the free kick against Utd.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Bit of a mad shout that.

I mean, even just looking closer at home;

Lukaku wasn't good enough at Chelsea.
Pienaar wasn't good enough at Dortmund.
Arteta wasn't good enough at Sociedad.

Football is full of them.

They were all young players. Olsen is a 31 year old journeyman.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Genuinely laughing at people who expect goalkeepers to be perfect and not make mistakes at all lol

I mean just look at Allison and De Gea over the weekend...

 

[Eggs]

But who will take Pickford off us to clear space for a good keeper? I suspect he would be easy enough to get out the door on a loan basis for the rest of his contract, but if that's the price of success so be it?

I just mentioned in the goalkeeping thread that it will come down to opportunism on a new keeper as I suspect strengthening the outfield will have more impact per pound spent. Having said that, getting it right in other positions will only highlight the deficiencies of this position. I think we might have to wait until the 23 summer window for this position unless an unmissable opportunity becomes available.

I do hope that Brands, Ancelotti, et al. have a plan for this position. Olsen seems too much of a stop gap for a team aiming to break the top 4.

...i imagine Pickford will stay.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

They were all young players. Olsen is a 31 year old journeyman.

He's also a goalkeeper

How old was Tim Howard when he left? 37?

Olsen then has potentially 5/6 years easily up for grabs.

Pienaar/Lukaku got off after 4.

I'm not saying he's the answer, I expressed reservations over him being a bit of a pointless signing who wouldn't replace Pickford but to write him off as "Why buy someone who isn’t good enough?" is a bit silly.

Loads of players who weren't "good enough" have gone on to be brilliant.

 

[hankdevlin]

Prior to Saturday Olsen was talked up as a saviour and then he gave up three goals so now he's rubbish. I'm beginning to think our expectations may be unsound.

 

[hktoffee]

Impressed by his performances so far. The third goal was a slip but he made two or three good saves prior to that which kept us in the game.

 

[Blueclouds]

I'm going to forgive the 3rd goal as he slipped, let judge him on more games

 

[Papa Shango]

Bit of a mad shout that.

I mean, even just looking closer at home;

Lukaku wasn't good enough at Chelsea.
Pienaar wasn't good enough at Dortmund.
Arteta wasn't good enough at Sociedad.

Football is full of them.

Pickford wasn't good enough at Sunderland...

 

[Jo3Fr3sh]

He's tall but can't jump. We need a goalie with springs in his legs. A good distributor, and has longish arms with lighting reflexes. Okay!