Rumoured John Ruddy

[Muzchap 8,966]

10m to sit on the bench is a bit expensive. why cant we look for overseas options?

We are looking for HOME GROWN players

That's the reason behind the transfer apparently - it satisfies two criteria:

1) Home Grown

2) Decent Backup

Although I agree Shay Given surely qualifies as Home Grown - even though he's pretty shit nowadays, not as bad as Hilario tho!

Where's Lenny Pidgely! Bring Back LENNY

[Liquidator 5,176]

I cant forget what happened with drogba that time, i cant imagine him wearing this shirt...

why? Both he and Drogba were entitled to go for that ball, it is just one of those unfortunate things that happens in football. It wasn't deliberate like Stephen Cunt

[Mouri_Matic 560]

He is signing on a 1 year contract? After next season he is leaving definitely because Cech will be the sub with Courtois leading in goal.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

If we're so keen on signing home-grown players, I'd rather re-sign Ross Turnbull than spend £10 million - which is £3 million more than we spent on Cech - on this player. Makes absolutely no sense!

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

what about mark schwarzer... we wont need to spend 10mil on him...

Shay Given is available, supposedly, and Mark Schwarzer is available on a free transfer and we're talking about signing John fucking Ruddy for £10 million.

Wrong. Schwarzer won't sign because he wants to go to next year's World Cup, his last World Cup in fact. He's already 40 and has competition within the Aussie squad so unless he's crazy he's not coming here.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Schwarzer would be Australia's number one whether he plays one game next season, or one hundred.

[Hutcho 8,443]

If we spend 10mil on John ruddy then... *facepalm*

[Jase 43,479]

We should just sign @ to be Cech's backup. Won't have to pay any fees or wages for that matter. Easy...

[De_ChrapQaa 192]

why? Both he and Drogba were entitled to go for that ball, it is just one of those unfortunate things that happens in football. It wasn't deliberate like Stephen Cunt

its the only moment i realized that there is someone named john ruddy, im not watching every match in league, and so i dont remember any bright moments he got, so now everyone lets say "solid" have 10M value? i know we are known for "ruining" the market but this seems pretty unlogical to me

[kwylino 329]

I would frankly rather go with schwarzer, ideal age, can come here on a decent wage too (since i read up about you might want to save up money for life after playing football, not to mean of course he won't find another job but you know what i mean) capable back up, and by the time he retires (1 or 2 years?) Courtois should hopefully be fresh for the picking for him and cech to go at number 1 spot.

10m on ruddy is not the best option, by far not when you look at the other options, plus as mentioned here it would highly hinder his chances of being in the england set up if he was just always in cechs shadow, where as i think for someone like scwarzer who's pretty much spent a long time in top flight it'd not be so bad if he just settled down as a 2nd goalkeeper.

(shittypostisshit:'D)

[zolayes 14,489]

£10 mill would be a ruddy waste of money ... Bring back Delac and keep Hilario

[different level 1,056]

My idea of the back up keeper is a player who should be used as little as possible: when the first choice GK is injured or against lower league sides in the cup ties. In that aspect £10 mln for someone, who would play in less than 10 games unless some emergency is on the way, makes no sense. If the club has some doubts over Cech's fitness they should've kept Courtois as even a keeper rotation would be better than overspending for a benchwarmer.

[CFC-Lloydy 38]

what about mark schwarzer... we wont need to spend 10mil on him...

My thinking exactly, a goalkeeper who wouldn't mind sitting on the bench earning 20-30k a week to see his career out. Him or even Sorensen, who I believe is on a freebie (I might be wrong), or Shay Given we could get for cheaper.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Fits what we need - would be our number 2 HG goalkeeper, definitely better than Turnbull... Not worth £10m though.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

Schwarzer would be Australia's number one whether he plays one game next season, or one hundred.

Yeah no he wouldn't. I'm pretty sure I know more than you in that area...

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

umm why is everyone crying about us spending 10M on ruddy? lol last i checked we bid 5M not 10M

simple fact when you bid 5M for a 10M rated goalie just shows we're trying to get the best possible backup for 5M at the biggest possible discount and not us trying to get ruddy no matter what the cost lol

[DavidEU 2,023]

Really don't see us paying £10m for this guy. The offer may be raised to £6m or so + add ons but no more. As Alex said, we'd be better off keeping Turnbull on the books for an extra year, or selecting one of the couple of freebies about, than shelling out big money on Ruddy.

Majority of the players back for pre season training a week Monday, so would have thought JM would want a deal for an extra goalkeeper wrapped up pretty sharpish.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Schwarzer would be Australia's number one whether he plays one game next season, or one hundred.

Exactly, he doesn't even have any competition in the Australian NT.

If we're going to spend 10m on a homegrown GK, I'd much rather we get someone who could actually retain his price if we want to sell him when Courtois comes back from loan. Someone like Boro's Steele who for me is much better than Buttland.