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Weir, Dendoncker, van Hecke, Elle - some gems for the future.
Even so, we have made £15 million+ this summer so surely there are some funds available for a striker ?
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Weir, Dendoncker, van Hecke, Elle - some gems for the future.
Even so, we have made £15 million+ this summer so surely there are some funds available for a striker ?
middletoenail
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To be fair, Ryan's height is a MASSIVE problem. How many keepers in the top league's are barely 6ft? The only keeper I can think of similar, who had any kind of success at a top league is Cassilas (and he was at Real Madrid).
Happy to be corrected
He towers over Premier League winning Kasper Schmichel.To be fair, Ryan's height is a MASSIVE problem. How many keepers in the top league's are barely 6ft? The only keeper I can think of similar, who had any kind of success at a top league is Cassilas (and he was at Real Madrid).
Happy to be corrected
middletoenail
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Good call!
albionalex
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To be fair, Ryan's height is a MASSIVE problem. How many keepers in the top league's are barely 6ft? The only keeper I can think of similar, who had any kind of success at a top league is Cassilas (and he was at Real Madrid).
Happy to be corrected
Yann Sommer
middletoenail
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He's just another Maty playing for average teams. Show me a goalkeeper (<=6ft) over the last 20 years who has played a significant amount of games for a decent team?
But what have the Romans ever done for us.
middletoenail
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Shay Given is a decent call, the rest of them are a bit meh. I notice the lack of successful premier League goalkeepers.
Anyway, statistically and factually our beloved Maty is 2nd in the league, at goals conceded outside the box. He's not a bad goalkeeper, he's just not big physically tall enough. Like many small basketball players, they'll always be a minority exception.
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When multiple World Cup and Champions League winners don't get approval but Shay Given does, it's probably time to bow out
Casillas and Valdes a bit meh??!!! I'm not having that!
Casillas was the best keeper in the world for a time and Valdes was an excellent keeper for many years for a team who were the best in the world for 3/4 years and possibly of all time.
albionalex
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I am very confused, you said 'Ryan's height is a MASSIVE problem.' and then asked for examples of other goalkeepers in top leagues that were his height, which I provided one.
Factually, Sommer is 6ft and has made 200 Bundelsiga appearances playing for a top 4 side.
Obviously it doesn't fit your anti-Ryan stance.
middletoenail
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They played in a different league, less physically demanding for the two of the best teams in (arguably) history!
Valdes and Barthez absolutely flopped when they came to England. Casillas decided the safe harbor option to semi retirement, after leaving Madrid.
middletoenail
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What's wrong with having an anti Ryan stance? You say it like it's personal or something?
I don't think that he's good enough at this level, top bloke and all that, but that's not in question. If we want to be progressing, we need a better goalkeeper.
albionalex
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You can have your opinion, you are entitled to it. But when presented with a fact, you should concede to it.
You're new here, aren't you?
deslynhamsmoustache1
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That or our out of form striker Maupay didn't have the confidence to take the ball round the keeper to his (maupay's) left.
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Maupay with confidence would have skipped around him and rolled it into an empty net. He wouldn't be getting plaudits then.