You will never get sympathy and moral support from the entire 30,000 people in a football stadium there to watch their team perform well. I support our team unconditionally but there will always be a vocal self entitled section that expect their team to play well because they have paid good money to see it.
I'm happy to have a current England international as No 1 with a potential future England No 1 pushing him for a place, our GK department hasn't been as strong for a long time.
We do at the moment (and for as long as that continues, I wholeheartedly agree with you). But if we get relegated this season, lets see how long they stick around for.
Hopefully. But it does kind of defeat the point of having both of them. Whilst I would rather have both, if it's a choice between having one of them and being a PL team, and having one of them and being a Championship team, it's a very easy to decision for me. Given our frail position as a PL club, spending money on a second goalkeeper rather than on the outfield first team, is not something I can agree with. (If we'd done both, it's a different story. But we didn't.) A needless, pointless, and very costly, luxury if we go down. I loved having Niemi and Smith, but it didn't save us in 2005. (Different circumstances, I know.)
I think that it was a reaction to Forster completely losing the plot and being almost unpickable, imagine if he was sitting on the bench at SMS and Alex picked up an injury? Another thing is that we have paid £10m so far for Gunn, how many top class outfield players could we have purchased for that?
I agree....you have to have 2 good keepers....which means of course that you pay good money for a player that may not play, but could be a godsend if the number one gets injured. I think we have to accept that the club know more about Forster's state of mind than we do.
They are contracted players...guarantees them an income for fixed number of years, but also means they can't just upsticks. Our problem would not be them leaving, but Saints trying to shift a few.
No he wasnt, he'd finally been found out as awful. Infact he'd just come off his worst season for us and was only a year into his latest deal.
Also how I remember it. I think most people saw it as a strange decision at the time because he had been in poor form for half a season or more following injuries and a plummet in confidence. And it’s not even as if his contract was about to run out. To extend it and increase his wages at that point was beyond bizarre.
Speculation allegedly coming from MLT that we are appointing an “Austrian unknown who has been in Champions League”. Was supposed to be done Thursday but will now be Sunday. 2 different people citing the same source. Had a google and came up with Peter Stöger - Last at Dortmund.
If true, then the plus side is that he likes to promote young players, the down side is that the football was not attractive (but difficult to beat) All according to this from Wiki... "On 10 December 2017, Stöger was announced as the successor to Peter Bosz as manager of Borussia Dortmund, when BVB was sitting eighth in the league table. Stöger managed to stabilize the team so they became difficult to beat, but did not play as attracting as it was the trademark BVB football anymore. Stöger included young players as Manuel Akanji, Jadon Sancho in responsible roles, as well as Sergio Gómez. Captain Marcel Schmelzer was briefly sidelined. At the end of the season BVB started to play more beautifully, but did not get consistent form.[20][21]. He left Dortmund on 12 May 2018." Nobody that has managed Dortmund can be that "unknown"
Yeah. It’s probably a load of old codswallop and 2+2 but if it does pan out I will be gutted I didn’t lump a load of wonga on
I thought @Schad had mentioned him before about coming here. I’m so excited. And I just can’t hide it. I’m about to lose control and I think I like it.
