NUFC Transfer Rumours

[El Prontonise]

Loloris would be a terrible signing.

[Stottie]

I'd prefer de Gea to Lloris. That one where Lloris bounced off Wilson and Wilson lobbed him. 

 

Getting back to Dubs, but the other question is how did he get injured if his only game prior to this week was Man U in the Carabao?

[gbandit]

De Gea and Lloris are both past it. No idea what the solution is here other than an exorbitant loan fee for Ramsdale for six months 

[r0cafella]

6 minutes ago, Jordan said:

Wasn’t Lloris absolutely horrendous for Spurs last season? If his performance against us at SJP is anything to go off, he’s no better than Dubravka atm. 

Yeah, they couldn’t wait to get shot of him. 
 

but ultimately, we are in a rough spot, any bandaid solution is going to be worst than pope. The last thing we should do is pay good money for a keeper who is about as good as pope. We either get a better keeper or go with a bandaid. 
 

FFP doing its job as usual, we don’t have margin for error. 

[nufc123]

6 minutes ago, gbandit said:

Would suggest that Karius is unspeakably poor in training 

After the Besiktas spell he has played what is it, four or five games in three years. Career almost over at the age of 27. 

[gbandit]

Just now, nufc123 said:

After the Besiktas spell he has played what is it, four or five games in three years. Career almost over at the age of 27. 

All a bit sad really but at least his wife / girlfriend must make up for it 

[El Prontonise]

11 minutes ago, Stottie said:

I'd prefer de Gea to Lloris. That one where Lloris bounced off Wilson and Wilson lobbed him. 

 

Getting back to Dubs, but the other question is how did he get injured if his only game prior to this week was Man U in the Carabao?

 

Players get injured in training as well.

[SUPERTOON]

Dubs, De gea or Lloris aren’t great options but I’d take any of them over playing Karius.

[Guest]

Pope is firmly in that group of keepers that sits just under the elite level of

 

Alisson

Ederson
Courtios

ter Stegen

Mike Maignan

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Martinez

Pope

Vicario

Sanchez

Raya

Pickford
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The scope of keepers isn't that great at the moment, if it was you wouldn't have the likes of Jason Steele being first choice for Brighton. Yet, because they're committed to playing out from the back he's the best option available. This belief there's a host of GKs capable of passing it about is odd. Alisson, Edersen, Neuer are on another level.  Onana who Man U bought to be able to play out from the back, seems to be another GK that decieves to be good at playing out from the back and lacks the traditional strengths of a keeper. 

 

I wouldn't want Sanchez or Raya at Newcastle, compared to Pope they might be a step up in playing out from the back, but seem to have an absolute moment of madness desperate to break out every game (far more than Pope). Neto and Jose Sa look good, but I'm not sure anyone would be happy with them coming. 

 

I thought Vicario was an accident waiting to happen, but I was wrong on that one, he's looking like the best 'cheap' option for what we'd be after (but he's at Spurs now). 

[Kanj]

@Minhosa Think it would be very poor from the owners if they mucked about a genuine opportunity to help Howe and the fatigued/hurt squad. There are glaring issues with our team and no amount of Miley, Anderson, Willock, or Longstaff will make up for the loss of Tonali and what that should have done for us over the course of a season. Pope's injury and Dubravka being a far different keeper doesn't help at all. 

[Deuce]

If we want to play it out from the back, we should give Schar a run out at keeper.

[SUPERTOON]

Are people now thinking GK is the number one priority in January ?

[gbandit]

Just now, SUPERTOON said:

Are people now thinking GK is the number one priority in January ?

If Dubs has an injury yes, if Dubs doesn’t have an injury then probably yes 

[WideopenMag]

Just now, SUPERTOON said:

Are people now thinking GK is the number one priority in January ?

RW/CM still more of a priority for me but we have an opportunity for a keeper should take it. Don't think the keeper issue would have stood out as bad If our outfield players were in good form. We've put a lot of pressure on to Dubravka with poor play and defensive fuck ups.

[Upthemags]

3 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Are people now thinking GK is the number one priority in January ?

Echoing the skepticism here - much more pressing needs with our current makeup/injury list. And unless you want to dump Pope for good, it wouldn't make sense to allocate what's already a tight budget towards a new keeper. RW > Midfield > CB > GK imo

[Skeletor]

Honestly all I see coming in January is a free keeper (De Gea or Lloris) and someone on loan like Kalvin Phillips. Don't see any money flying about.

[BullyDogs]

We absolutely need a RW and a CM a keeper on a 6 month loan or short term deal for a free agent too, our goalkeeping options are appaling and we will leak goals like a sieve if Dubravka plays for 6 months

[GeordieDazzler]

51 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

Is the Dortmund keeper as good as he looked against us? Or are those performance outliers ?

nah he’s mint, Brassell said the other week he’s been immense all season for them 

[Guest]

Kobel and Somnmr are good too, aye. 

[Kid Icarus]

If it's Lloris, Dubravka, or De Gea, I'd go De Gea. They're all dodgy, but De Gea's dodginess is the most offset by his shot stopping talent over the other two.

 

I couldn't stand Lloris like.

[r0cafella]

13 minutes ago, GeordieDazzler said:

nah he’s mint, Brassell said the other week he’s been immense all season for them 

He looked top notch from the two games against us. Just oozed quality, wonder if we could prize him away. 

[Stottie]

20 minutes ago, El Prontonise said:

 

Players get injured in training as well.

That's true. It also fits perfectly into the narrative of our season. Our backup keeper actually nursing a training injury when our number one goes down.

 

On the subject of narratives, we could get Keylor Navas in for Wednesday to see if he can go further in the competition than his old mates at PSG.

If Dubs is injured, it means Karius playing in the CL for the first time since that final.

 

[The Butcher]

Not sure Lloris is any better than Dubravka mind.

[Keegans Export]

39 minutes ago, Skeletor said:

Honestly all I see coming in January is a free keeper (De Gea or Lloris) and someone on loan like Kalvin Phillips. Don't see any money flying about.

I think the same. Partly because of the FFP constraints, partly because January usually offers pretty poor value but mainly because I think we're going to keep our powder dry until the summer.

 

I'm not saying they'll treat this season as a write-off but I can see the sense in getting through this season as best we can, we've had the bonus of (minimum) six CL games and the income that brings, so we invest well in the summer and start the 24/25 season with a considerably more talented and extensive squad than started 22/23 and make top 4/5 the clear target.

[Kimbo]

Lloris is finished. The only keeper worse than him last year was that donkey at Leicester, and he had been on the slide for a few seasons before that.