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Summer Transfer Window 2017

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Pickford
Kenny Keane Jags Baines
Davies Gueye Schneiderlin
Sigurdson Sandro Klassen

Would you be happy if that was the lineup for the first game of season (Prem)?


Naa. I'm not certain we will end up with Pickford. Williams will be in there with Keane. It'll be a midfield 3 of Schneiderlin sitting, Gueye probing and harassing and Klaassen going box to box and giving us a goal threat from CM. Sigurdsson could be signed to play wide left and I'm not certain Sandro would be the main man upfront either, think we may go for another CF, target man type when Lukaku goes. And I think we'll go for a wide right player, a proper winger or wide forward, a lefty to go out on the right and cut in and be creative and get goals...
 
As soon as Lampard scored I knew we'd never win a thing with Tim Howard in goal. Can't stand him. The World Cup game where he saved 98 shots that went straight at him made it all 10 times worse too.

We haven't won anything since either like. But that's a different story.

Harsh. He made just as many saves that saved goals that would have affected our points total as mistakes. He wasn't Buffon by the end, but too many were too hard on him.

He's still a first choice international GK. "Gash" isn't a word I would use. It's not like he was keeping Vander Sar on the bench.
 

let's put a bid in on the Venezuela lad yeferson soteldo who came on in the U20 final and ripped England apart. 5'3" of pure skill. i will be suprised if the spanish clubs are not all over him, seeing he is still playing in the venzuela prem.
 
Harsh. He made just as many saves that saved goals that would have affected our points total as mistakes. He wasn't Buffon by the end, but too many were too hard on him.

He's still a first choice international GK. "Gash" isn't a word I would use. It's not like he was keeping Vander Sar on the bench.

To be fair I didn't use that word.

He was fine for us at a time when having players like Joseph Yobo played for us. But as football moved on we didn't and sadly for me Howard was just the goalkeeping Yobo. Ok for us at a time. But not anything to move us up.

I'm of course not saying he never had good games for us. Of course he did. Just that I was never ever 100% on him. In fact barely 80% most of the time.

He had a very unorthodox style for a keeper and that irked me and didn't help my opinion either.

I still to this day just want a normal goalkeeper. Essentially I want Nigel Martyn in goal. 24/7/365.
 
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come on Ij, 2008 - 2012/13 he was very solid. Had the odd brain fart (Blackburn away springs to mind, in 2010 I think), but most goalkeepers do. The ones that don't are the very best in the world.

Heck, see Lloris' cock-up the other night?

That was probably the worst season I've ever seen from any goalkeeper, including Bravo last year.
 

WRD saying he's still being told that Michael Keane has a gentlemans agreement to join us in tghe summer.


And he also said we had a deal in principle agreed with Schmeichel...

And today or yesterday he's said were in talk to sign a defender called Sarr. Didn't give a first name but God knows who that is, could be anyone. Some are speculating it's Malang Sarr of Nice or someone who plays for Wolfsburg?!......
 
That was probably the worst season I've ever seen from any goalkeeper, including Bravo last year.
Oh please. We had the 4th best goals against in the league that year. How has the transfer thread become a Howard thread? He's been gone more than a year. Let's just sign someone better than Joel so we don't have to think about the position like we've had to for the last 3 seasons. What happened to the Pickford rumors? Not that I'm all that high on him either...
 
Oh please. We had the 4th best goals against in the league that year. How has the transfer thread become a Howard thread? He's been gone more than a year. Let's just sign someone better than Joel so we don't have to think about the position like we've had to for the last 3 seasons. What happened to the Pickford rumors? Not that I'm all that high on him either...

We had a well-drilled Moyes defence shielding him. He was an absolute embarrassment that season, and I think if you looked back at it you'd be reminded of how alarming his performances actually were, he quite literally cost us about 10 points on his own.

Agree we need to sign someone better than Joel. Pickford most certainly is better, objectively. Will he be the one, who knows.
 

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