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On top of the depression of just sitting on the bench week in, week out, I'd hate to suddenly be chucked in to the starting line up at a moment's notice for the first time in, for example, two years. One mistake and that defines those two years of your already short career. I'd be shitting my keks. But I guess that's why I'm not a professional goalkeeper. Certainly not the fact I'm a foot too short.

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I guess after spending your full career as first choice at some fairly average clubs in the Premier League and Championship, a few years at Liverpool playing half a dozen cup games might appeal.

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Ollie Watkins bought for £1.8m sold for £30m. Benrahma bought for £1.5 m sold for £30m.

 

Fair play whoever's doing the scouting at Brentford.

 

All stats based scouting like a moneyball of football. Even before this summer they'd made big profits on lots of other players in the last few years

 

Yeah their owner is Matthew Benham. He was a professional gambler, owns a company who were basically a big team of data analysts and they made fortunes using their own ratings system for football teams. He then became majority shareholder of Midtjylland in Denmark - they used a lot of data analysis for recruitment / set pieces etc and won the league twice. Now doing the same at Brentford and seems to be working pretty well there too.

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I'd assumed that Leeds tweet with the fish and chips on deadline day, was a reference to him being a surprise signing for them. Who was that about then?

 

Raphinha. Some Rennes fans got rightly annoyed that he'd turn down Champions League football with them to sign for newly-promoted Leeds, calling us a fish and chip country.

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On top of the depression of just sitting on the bench week in, week out, I'd hate to suddenly be chucked in to the starting line up at a moment's notice for the first time in, for example, two years. One mistake and that defines those two years of your already short career. I'd be shitting my keks. But I guess that's why I'm not a professional goalkeeper. Certainly not the fact I'm a foot too short.

 

If it's a club you support, it's just like free tickets [with the chance of being called from the stands, comic book style] to every game.

 

I'd agree that you'd be shitting yourself if you were thrown in, but I think that often helps a keeper on his debut. Fear heightens the senses and reflexes which can lead to remarkable performances.

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Yeah, what a life Harper must have had. Didn’t have to leave the region, I remember Robson once saying he got paid a helluva lot of money to be a number 2, he got to train every week, watch the football every week, and played occasionally. Now he’s got a job on the back of that as a coach. :lol:

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