3 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Onana looks like he flaps at shots a bit on his videos, i'd rather take Areola. I wanted him before we took Kepa. 

From what I remember of Areola he isn't the best at commanding his area either. Liverpool specifically targeted him for it by making a couple of players practically step on his toes.

Tim Krul or Ben Foster. Temporary measure. Both command their areas.

6 hours ago, Valerie said:

The house or Areola?

Do you think he could replace Carlo, lol

2 minutes ago, Ballack & Blu said:

Do you think he could replace Carlo, lol

The house possibly 

1 minute ago, Valerie said:

The house possibly 

I was thinking Young Kepa, had a chance, but he's only a kid, i think you should petition frank to have him (Carlo) more visible😇

49 minutes ago, abramovich said:

 

That's rough. 730th out of 730 😲

In a weird way it's good news for next season though. Assuming we sign a new goalkeeper and he's just decent even and it should make a massive difference. If he does well even greater obviously.

The signing of Kepa just highlights the madness that is football in the modern day. I know it's not Kepa's fault but I shudder when I am reminded that he cost us £71.6M. I know football is far detached from the real world but to the normal man in the street, £1M is a great deal of money - life-changing. We all dream of a lottery win - what we could buy with £1M, £2M, £5M etc..........Buys nothing in football these days but there are still bargains to be had at £20M upwards. 

But somehow, we managed to spunk £71.6M on a keeper who is not fit for purpose. We have had some dreadful transfer dealings over the years but this one will take some beating.

1 hour ago, abramovich said:

 

That is unbelievable 

57 minutes ago, Sindre said:

That's rough. 730th out of 730 😲

 

 

At least the 1 positive to this is if you stay with Kepa next year, he can't  possibly get any worse. 

It can only go up right? right?

Edited July 27, 20205 yr by haviet1

- For 14/47 goals conceded this season, he didn’t move (30%).

That is the root cause of the problem, he doesn't react to some shots for some reason. If he was on the end of Mason's FK he would've most likely just stood there and watched it go in whilst most keepers make a full stretched dive even if it's futile. I don't know why he does this.

1 hour ago, abramovich said:

 

The nice thing about being dead last ever in being a sh*t f**king keeper is that you, technically, have no where to go but up.

2 hours ago, abramovich said:

 

A keeper that doesn't move 3 out of 10 shots at the top level is disgustingly bad. 

Must be a habit he picked up in training as there's no reason a youth coach will allow that habit to develop even at youth league standards

Chelsea will listen to offers over £50m for under-fire Kepa Arrizabalaga and will consider long term loan move away with Frank Lampard ready to push club to sign new goalkeeper. (Mail) #CFC

8 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Chelsea will listen to offers over £50m for under-fire Kepa Arrizabalaga and will consider long term loan move away with Frank Lampard ready to push club to sign new goalkeeper. (Mail) #CFC

He was worth 25m when we bought him. He's worth less now. 

39 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

He was worth 25m when we bought him. He's worth less now. 

Yeah - is be amazed if we got £50m for him. I expect him to go out on a 2 year loan. 

40 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

He was worth 25m when we bought him. He's worth less now. 

It will cost us to get rid of him, but it will cost us less than keeping him.

I can see either a sale of around that 25mill mark to a mid table Spanish team who can only pay him about 40k a week. Or a loan with loan fees with similar wages.

Either way we will be paying the rest of Kepas wages for the remainder of his contract.

I'd like to see us pressure United to make a long term decision on De Gea  by putting in a decent bid for Henderson. He wants to be first choice at Utd and has proven he merits it. We wouldn't need to pay the f**ked up release clause for Oblak (who is undoubtedly quality) and he helps with the home grown quota.

12 minutes ago, loz said:

I'd like to see us pressure United to make a long term decision on De Gea  by putting in a decent bid for Henderson. He wants to be first choice at Utd and has proven he merits it. We wouldn't need to pay the f**ked up release clause for Oblak (who is undoubtedly quality) and he helps with the home grown quota.

Not really as big a problem as it use to be is it 

31 minutes ago, loz said:

I'd like to see us pressure United to make a long term decision on De Gea  by putting in a decent bid for Henderson. He wants to be first choice at Utd and has proven he merits it. We wouldn't need to pay the f**ked up release clause for Oblak (who is undoubtedly quality) and he helps with the home grown quota.

Home grown quota not much of an issue now when we have so many young english players coming through.

If we can get anything above 30m for Kepa we've done very well. May not have the budget to spend on Oblak until next year though

3 hours ago, driller97 said:

Home grown quota not much of an issue now when we have so many young english players coming through.

If we can get anything above 30m for Kepa we've done very well. May not have the budget to spend on Oblak until next year though

We need to address the keeper this season though; if Oblak is out of question I do think we invest in someone younger who will be our established number 1 for years (Onana, Donna).

I must say I don't recall him committing many absolute howlers, as we've grown accustomed to seeing from some of the other supposed top keepers in the league this season (De Dea, Pickford, Kasper, etc.). I wonder for all the stats about his poor save percentage and high number of goals conceded, how many of those he should genuinely have been expected to stop.

12-13 more than he did. Well expected at least. That isn't a 100% watertight stat but gives you an idea how many goals less should we have conceded.

12 hours ago, abramovich said:

 

Oh sh*t it just gets worse 

11 hours ago, Nibs said:

The signing of Kepa just highlights the madness that is football in the modern day. I know it's not Kepa's fault but I shudder when I am reminded that he cost us £71.6M. I know football is far detached from the real world but to the normal man in the street, £1M is a great deal of money - life-changing. We all dream of a lottery win - what we could buy with £1M, £2M, £5M etc..........Buys nothing in football these days but there are still bargains to be had at £20M upwards. 

But somehow, we managed to spunk £71.6M on a keeper who is not fit for purpose. We have had some dreadful transfer dealings over the years but this one will take some beating.

The madness is, since I first stepped into the bridge for the first time in the early 80's, he is simply the worse No1 keeper we have had. You can go through them,  Peter Bonnetti,  Peter Borota, Steve Francis, Eddie Ned, Dave Beasant, Kevin Hitchcock, Kharine, Edd De Geoy, Carlo Cudicini, Cech, Courtois and then there's.......Kepa, he is simply f**kin hopeless!

Right now, I'd be happier with Ross Turnbull in goal ... or even Deco LOL ... at least he'd be guaranteed to dive 🙂