28 minutes ago, ducavis said:

Yeah.. 

 

makes up for it with good shot stopping, long ball passing and penalties saves. Saved 5 pens already this CL campaign, & has an assist to boot. Spurs & Utd are interested also. 
 

 

Just thought that it's interesting cause both of them have some reputation as penalty specialists, maybe less height also means quicker reflexes and movement.

Kepa is going to feature for Spain at the World Cup, with him 2 other PL keepers have been called up but none of them is David De Gea. Props to Kepa.

For all the carry on about his progress. Two elementary, classic Kepa stuff ups have cost us crucial goals in two weeks. 

Mendy can't come back from his injury soon enough.

He's cost us 2 games in the past couple of weeks. My second team is Peterborough United and I've watched a lot of their games this season, they've got our youth goalie Bergstrom in goal and he makes very similar mistakes that Kepa does. Basically Kepa isn't much better than a goalie that's been benched by a league 1 team. Absolutely hideous goalie.

1 hour ago, Spiller86 said:

For all the carry on about his progress. Two elementary, classic Kepa stuff ups have cost us crucial goals in two weeks. 

Mendy can't come back from his injury soon enough.

Mendy isn't good enough either Spiller. Just one more position where we desperately need an upgrade.

1 hour ago, Spiller86 said:

For all the carry on about his progress. Two elementary, classic Kepa stuff ups have cost us crucial goals in two weeks. 

Mendy can't come back from his injury soon enough.

Yeah, come back to pass the ball to the opposing strikers. Kepa has fallen back into his usual mistakes but Mendy isn`t the solution either. We need a new GK, sell one of Mendy/Kepa and keep the other as back-up. Maybe sell both and use Slonina as back-up, I have no idea how good he actually is.

39 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

He's cost us 2 games in the past couple of weeks. My second team is Peterborough United and I've watched a lot of their games this season, they've got our youth goalie Bergstrom in goal and he makes very similar mistakes that Kepa does. Basically Kepa isn't much better than a goalie that's been benched by a league 1 team. Absolutely hideous goalie.

I actually think there's a keeper in League One that would start for us (and probably about half the PL teams in fairness) right now.

Regarding Kepa, this is exactly why i stuck to my guns even during his mini spell, he's back to 19/20 Kepa now, if not worse.

Edited January 13, 20233 yr by Argo

Reminder that he was bought for £71m lol. 

1 hour ago, reparto corse said:

Yeah, come back to pass the ball to the opposing strikers. Kepa has fallen back into his usual mistakes but Mendy isn`t the solution either. We need a new GK, sell one of Mendy/Kepa and keep the other as back-up. Maybe sell both and use Slonina as back-up, I have no idea how good he actually is.

Mendy was quality, but confidence wasn't helped by change of defence. Koulibaly hardly feels me with confidence, so how can the keepers have confidence? 

2 minutes ago, enigma said:

Reminder that he was bought for £71m lol. 

If we're doing reminders, reminder we could have got Donnarumma on a free but decided to back Mendy

1 minute ago, timetowaste said:

If we're doing reminders, reminder we could have got Donnarumma on a free but decided to back Mendy

Mendy was quality during the CL run. Saved our asses countless times that season. 

Edited January 13, 20233 yr by enigma

1 hour ago, enigma said:

Reminder that he was bought for £71m lol. 

plus £72m for Havertz, £34m for Koulibaly, £60m for Cucurella god some of our recruitment has been horrific.

4 hours ago, Spiller86 said:

For all the carry on about his progress. Two elementary, classic Kepa stuff ups have cost us crucial goals in two weeks. 

Mendy can't come back from his injury soon enough.

Fully agree with this , Kepa had a decent purple patch which hopefully means we can offload him. Mendy is clearly a better goalkeeper.

5 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

plus £72m for Havertz, £34m for Koulibaly, £60m for Cucurella god some of our recruitment has been horrific.

The Koulibaly fee was fair. In hindsight it was a good signing to replace Rudiger/Christensen. These big money signings that were average go back to Conte's time here. £32m for Batshuayi and 35m for the likes of Drinkwater. Then £60m almost for Pulisic who was sh*t at Dortmund before we signed him. Morata we are least sold again for a good fee. Bakayoko was a failure at almost £40m. 

Edited January 13, 20233 yr by enigma

2 hours ago, Argo said:

actually think there's a keeper in League One that would start for us (and probably about half the PL teams in fairness) right now.

Who out of interest? 

44 minutes ago, drjonesy1994 said:

Who out of interest? 

The Plymouth keeper who faced us in the cup last year (not just basing it on that game I made a post after the draw name dropping him as a future England keeper). He's the sole reason they're top of that league this season.

Obviously he's not at the 20/21 Edou level but I think he's got huge potential and would actually be better than Kepa and current Edou.

Edited January 13, 20233 yr by Argo

For me has has generally been decent though has now been caught out with crosses in that no-man zone between defenders and keeper inviting an attacker to attack the space.

Yesterday was an out-swinger and he comes and changes his mind, if he stays on his line he probably saves it.

No guaranty Mendy will be better at this time.

GK coaches need to work with Kepa to make his judgement in dealing with crosses better.

 

Kepa infuriates me and there was good reason he lost his place to Mendy.

Neither keeper is good enough. Mendy ousted Kepa when he had his purple patch but then looked worse than Kepa and both are way below the standard required for a top club and would happy to see BOTH replaced come the end of the season.

 

9 hours ago, just said:

Mendy isn't good enough either Spiller. Just one more position where we desperately need an upgrade.

 

4 hours ago, Nibs said:

Kepa infuriates me and there was good reason he lost his place to Mendy.

Neither keeper is good enough. Mendy ousted Kepa when he had his purple patch but then looked worse than Kepa and both are way below the standard required for a top club and would happy to see BOTH replaced come the end of the season.

I think Mendy has a mistake in him, but for me he just does the fundamentals of keeping. Kepa's refusal to come and claim a cross by comparison hurts my eyes every time I watch.

I'm open to a new keeper but I think a Mendy in form is fine. Kepa has never been good enough.

kepa had a good patch but confidence is gone and clearly back to the same old stuff ups. Have to be able to trust the keeper not to stuff up. Vital for team confidence. Kepa needs to go. 

 

I've been busy today but kept expecting to see this topic in new content where Kepa is praised for keeping us in the game! He deserves as much as Kai!

Credit where it is due to him today. A couple of brilliant saves.

The one from the  header in the first half in particular.

Edited January 15, 20233 yr by erskblue

1 hour ago, Munkworth said:

 

extend the contract

12 hours ago, erskblue said:

Credit where it is due to him today. A couple of brilliant saves.

The one from the  header in the first half in particular.

Just watched the game back and save from Olise was great the rest I'd expect any half decent keeper to save. The XG of 0.58 for Palace (according to MOTD) backs that up.

Good game but nothing near MOTM (that was Gallagher by a distance).