28 Apr 2025 23:29:04
I see us linked with Joan Garcia from Espanyol. Has anyone watched much of him? I've only seen clips but he looks good and still young for a GK.
29 Apr 2025 06:06:50
Not seen much, I still maintain go for Senne Lammens from Royal Antwerp. Similar age, better attributes and cheaper cost!
29 Apr 2025 18:26:52
I expect to get shot down here, but I'd go and sign Aaron Ramsdale from Southampton.
With Amorim the goalkeeper isn't a vital player like they are in Pep's team's.
They need to be a good shot stopper, strong in the air, able to play out from the back with short to medium passes and to not make any mistakes.
They don't need to be Pirlo in gloves or an insane sweeper keeper, ala Neuer.
When I look at our defence I see a lot of young and inexperienced players. Players like Yoro, Dorgu and Heaven. I'm not sure adding a young inexperienced keeper is the best idea. Especially one with no experience of playing in the EPL. Lots of keepers get caught out with the physical nature in the EPL. They look good coming for crosses on the continent where no one can jump in their vicinity. Yet when they have a 6'2 centre forward muscling in under them as the go for the cross they suddenly look a little suspect coming for crosses.
I'm sure players like Garcia and Lammens will probably go on to become better keepers than Ramsdale, but we need a solid keeper who won't drop clangers and who can quickly settle in this league.
Ramsdale has a 12m relegation clause, has experience, he actually did very well at Arsenal. So has big club experience. He wasn't a problem that needed solving at Arsenal, more a case of Arteta wanting a slightly different profile of keeper. A tactical misfit.
He is someone we could sign and be very confident that he'd be an upgrade on Onana and while allowing funds to be focused elsewhere. He is also a very good character to have around in the dressing room, some have even called him a leader.
For me he makes the most sense of any keeper signing this summer, a quick, cheap and easy deal to sort that upgrades a key position. Then maybe the following summer we could look to sign a younger keeper with high potential to challenge Ramsdale.
29 Apr 2025 19:30:29
Maybe it is Ramsdale and a young option, as we might lose all 3 keepers this summer.
29 Apr 2025 20:01:31
Ramsdale makes many mistakes but because of who he plays for they go relatively unnoticed, if he played for us it would be very different.
Why did Arsenal let him go? Because he is not good enough!
A big no from me.
29 Apr 2025 21:34:26
Ramsdale is not good enough. There is a reason he is at Southampton and even mid table teams didn't want him as their first choice keeper.
Makes too many mistakes for a top keeper couldn't organise Southamptons defence and doesn't dominate his penalty area.
30 Apr 2025 06:36:57
Ramsdale not for me, he was at his level, although you could say we are at that level, but we need to aim higher than these terrible stop gaps, if GK makes no difference to RA system let’s leave clown there. oh wait RA wants a proper keeper even though he don’t pay no attention to keepers!
Save the money RA put a ball boy in there GK not essential in your system!
30 Apr 2025 10:43:24
I like the look of Verbruggen personally even if for obvious reasons he seems more of an EtH signing.
Costa is the dream but once the likes of City come in we've got no chance.