At the time he left he was as important to us as suarez was to liverpool. We were lucky to have found an equal replacement in Vorm. I am not comparing the player but the relative importance of each to their club at that time. Which is what BR was doing.
It was relative to the club and not to later achievements. I didn't hear one fan celebrating Doris leaving at the time. As I said it's all relative and losing our number 1 keeper just after gaining promotion to the premiership I can see where BR was coming from with pool losing suarez.
But the difference is that we and BR did replace him with someone actually better, Liverpool and him didn't replace Suarez with anyone remotely on a par with him, not even anyone who could bite quite like him
The point that Rogers was making was how key Dorus was to how we played (as a keeper) and how he felt when Dorus left. At the time majority of fans were really concerned too especially as we had no one lined up and didnt sign anyone until 2 weeks to the season starting. How it all turned in the end is neither here or there. “I’ve been really disappointed twice in my career when I’ve lost players – one was Suarez at Liverpool and the first one was De Vries at Swansea. “That’s because he was such a key part of how I worked there. I can see exactly what he means.
I'm getting so sick of Robbie Savage in general . His biggest problem is ever time he opens his mouth he says something ....... I'd like to do a " Pintado " on him , I look at how hard I work for my money and he makes terrific money being a basic idiot .