Spot on. Lets hope it happens when we are 3-0 up somewhere! I would have liked Kenny to have commented as he has a good eye for goalkeepers generally, but he has taken a back seat recently , which is a shame.
I agree with 99.9% of this but he definitely went walkabout for Palaces first, yes others didn't cover themselves in glory but he just doesn't need to come that far in that instance imo
I don't know what you really expect to be replacing that lot with as a mid table team with less than 5 years premier league experience located in a not to salubrious part of Britain.- £135m worth of players there with what we paid for them.
Who? Its three or four windows since we did anything of real note. Uncle Jorge is always going to be the first point of call so that means Guedes or similar for Adama/ Podence and that has been universally derided on here. Sa isnt a fuckwit keeper but we are just going to have to disagree there. Besides, Fosun wont be paying North of 10m and I dont see any keeper in that sort of bracket as much of an upgrade. We just need to rein Sa in a bit. Sanches and Botman would be a decent shopping trip in January paired with a return for Neto and Jonny . Silva needs to go on loan so I would not mind Guedes on loan coming in as a replacement. That would be an upgrade on young Fabio but so would anyone with a bit of pace and the ability to cause a bit of havoc up front.
Yes I get that. I just don't see who you replace them with as an upgrade that fits with both the profile and budget of Fosun.
Because even with a three you then get to use Saiss in midfield to close out games. Botman Coady Kilman in a three or you could go Semedo Kilman/ Boly, Botman Jonny/ Marcal for a back four and still have Neves Donk, Moutinho Saiss in midfield plus Sanches. The issue is what to do with Coady who is by no means the worst defender in the world.
That's harsh on Romain, who is a more than capable squad player at this level and has never let us down. The rest I'm inclined to agree, apart from Sa, who you've got some weird dislike of - as someone above said, we just need to reign him in a little, but he has the makings of a very good goalkeeper. Podence can go from looking like the answer to all our problems to completely ineffectual within the blink of an eye. I do wonder if that's because we're asking the players in those positions to do too much (same with Adama etc). The old "give the ball to the winger and see if they can magic up something special" tactic that we seem to have persisted with for far too long.
It's about the same for me. I mean he gave away a penalty and then was at least partially at fault for us going 1-0 down in our last two away games. He offers as good as nothing going forward, he can't cross for shit and doesn't score.
