Transfer Rumours Summer 2020 Transfer Rumours

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We have one keeper who may be promising but hasn’t shown enough to be first choice right now

One keeper who is lower PL level

One keeper who has been utter ****e for along time when playing for us, but maybe back to his best. Which was average anyway.

Signing a new keeper wouldn’t be massively high up my list of priorities but if we are shopping around all 3 to try and get 1 off our books and decent offers come in for 2 of them I’d let them go and sign a new keeper and keep whichever of the 3 that’s left (yes I know this isn’t football manager)
 
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fatletiss said:
and perhaps now people will believe that I was the reason for those 6 clean sheets* in a row Match Threads, including my 11 saves at Arsenal.

* still unrepeated; not before or since.

#bringnackfats’matchthreadsandtakeusbacktoeurope
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*Noted. You’re next up after Tom!
 
We need to sell or at least a loan, with 100% wage contribution, 1 of 3 keepers.

Seems McCarthy is the no.1 so it won't be him - I guess we consider either Forster or Gunn as adequate back up - so are happy to sell whichever of those will generate/free up the most money. Obviously in an ideal world you'd keep Gunn due to his age, but the priority will be freeing up wages and maybe getting a transfer fee to reinvest elsewhere.
 
I haven't seen anything on here regarding the statement Maya issued following his departure from the club. Really sad to see him leave. He was an absolute gent and a role model for the club.
 
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fatletiss said:
and perhaps now people will believe that I was the reason for those 6 clean sheets* in a row Match Threads, including my 11 saves at Arsenal.

* still unrepeated; not before or since.

#bringnackfats’matchthreadsandtakeusbacktoeurope
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God we went on such a tear when he first came back from the knee injury. I can remember Fonte saying after one game “There’s no way you’re scoring against us now “. And it wasn’t all good defensive organisation either. Forster made a string of worldies but the ones in that Arsenal game were unreal. It’s a ludicrous revisionism to pretend that he was somehow never good and that performances like that and the ones for Celtic in the CL just didn’t happen.
 
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SaintInKuwait said:
God we went on such a tear when he first came back from the knee injury. I can remember Fonte saying after one game “There’s no way you’re scoring against us now “. And it wasn’t all good defensive organisation either. Forster made a string of worldies but the ones in that Arsenal game were unreal. It’s a ludicrous revisionism to pretend that he was somehow never good and that performances like that and the ones for Celtic in the CL just didn’t happen.
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All down to opinions init. I'd argue that it's ludicrous revisionism to say he was ever anything better than an average PL goalkeeper.

Those 6 games were more down to the fact we changed formation to a back 3 than Fraser imo, and although he did make some brilliant saves at Arsenal, I don't recall him earning us points with 'worldies' in any of those other 5 games.

If I was being really critical I could also point out that he should have saved the first goal (Hazard at SMS) that we conceded after that run too. Those pesky low shots again.
 
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fran-MLs little camera said:
Is the term ‘average PL keeper’ really an insult? That’s a pretty high standard actually.
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Insult? Course not, what makes you say that <confused>

Was being generous actually, you'd think he was the English Anti Niemi the way some people bang on about him.
 
I think with forster people can see the raw components of what should be a very intimidating top class keeper and keep hoping it will happen. He is a decent keeper but could be so much more. If he had the mindset to dominate the box most forwards wouldn't go anywhere near a cross but he for whatever reason just doesn't play that way.
 
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