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I don’t think Karius is totally hopeless and has shown some good signs since becoming our number one, but he has also shown a few things fairly regularly that suggests we need better if we are to really challenge.
I wouldn’t have any problem with that. Issue would be him wanting to settle for being a number 2 all over again.
I’ve heard this mentioned before, “good signs”. I never saw any. He always had a mistake in him, a big mistake. In our Champions League run alone, the knockouts: last 16 we hammered Porto who barely had a shot so he had nothing to do; last 8, home to Man City they barely had a shot (don’t think they had one shot on target, defence was outstanding), away leg, this was when questions were asked of Karius: his weak punch which saw the ball go straight down and hit Milner, should have been 2-0...game on; last 4, Roma at home, at 0-0 Kolarov shoots from 40 yards, straight at Karius...who lets it go through his hands (which we would see again), somehow it hits the crossbar and stays out. That goes in (and it’s pure luck it didn’t) its a different game. Away leg, he pushes a tame shot straight back into the box instead or round the post (something he does often), ball falls straight to Dzeko who scores. 10 minutes later, Karius rushes out of his goal like a maniac to the edge of the penalty area (no need, defenders were beside Dzeko) and he takes out Dzeko who flicked the ball past him...that’s a red card and penalty but for the linesman getting it wrong with an offside call. Then came the final...
Not sure if Achterberg is an issue. None of the goalkeepers that have worked with him had much of a pedigree before they joined so it’s not as if they have gone from good to bad and he has ruined them. The last quality keeper was Reina. We have bought bang average since then.
Conversely I read somewhere that Bale had positive talks with Real and a move to Utd is quite remote
Yeah who really knows tbh. I listened to an ed2 podcast updating the current window the other day and he slightly touched on bale.
Did he have a whinge about Klopp?
Not overly, rounded up all the big sides ins and outs that he knows of.
Maybe because they want shiny new play things like hazard, Mbappe and Neymar
That sums up Real Madrid for you. They only bought James cos he looks like a shiny new play thing in his underwear
Hazard and Mbappe I get, they’re world class and one has potential to be best on the planet. Neymar is just a sulky bitch who seems more trouble than he’s worth.
Won’t make a difference if the players want the move, I’d put money on one of them moving to Madrid with hazard eventually. And this is Madrid, money is hardly ever an issue.
