🇪🇸 Kepa Arrizabalaga

[Jase 43,479]

The defence doesn't inspire confidence in the keeper. The keeper doesn't inspire confidence in the defence. The entire backline is a ticking time bomb in every game. 

[killer1257 3,282]

Loan him out to Valencia for two years. La Liga suits him more.

Buy Strakosha or Cakir. If both not available, go for Onana


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On 27.6.2020 at 0:08 PM, Vincent said:

That's no excuse. Kepa is a good, maybe great goalkeeper in some parts of the game. But he lacks a lot of football intelligence, which is something i really care about in the contemporary game. He lacks more than i would expect for a £71m goalkeeper, which i can't blame him for ofcourse. Sometimes players want to prove themselves too bad, which leads to mistakes. The lofted pass you're talking about, was totally unnecesariliy, with hardly any pressure on him and Rudiger and Christensen next to him. I've said this before, goalkeepers in this era have to be more than just players that stop the opponent from scoring. If you know your shortcomings as a goalkeeper, you should keep it as clean and simple as possible. Football is simple, but simple football is difficult, Johan Cruijff once said.

What part of Kepas game is great? Surely not his passing.

He simply was a panic buy, a third choice attempt after Allison and Oblak opted against us. So we snapped and spent a fortune on a mediocre talent with mediocre potential. Now we are stuck with him. But two wrongs dont make a right. We should accept that loss and learn from it not to spent this much out of a position of weakness. If you have to decide between pest and cholera always pick cholera.

[Special Juan 28,141]

He hasn't got a strength, he can't command his box, he's average with his feet and that fucking face he pulls when concedes a goal and looks at everyone else pisses me right off.

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53 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

It was like a comedy sketch when he came out, he just fucking walked into people, I was waiting for the circus music.

 

[BXL70 396]

SELL!

[DDA 9,941]

Dead Keeper.

I honestly believe he is worse than Willy. 

[OneMoSalah 8,886]

Honestly think he still can turn it around and his performances last season as well as parts of this one are proof that he isnt as bad as people are making him out to be.

I do get some will disagree and I do get he has made mistakes yes and in terms of his consistency he has struggled this season but out of our squad this season, who hasn't struggled for consistency? Who hasn't made mistakes? If we didnt make mistakes in games all across the team we would be better off than we are. Its not as if we were miles better last season in terms of what we had in the squad bar Eden. The fact that we have changed our CBs so often and LB as well this season just shows that there is nobody in the backline who has really got passmarks this season. 

Kepa is also unfortunate than Tibo and Cech before him were both top top level, world class goalkeepers during their spells here. He will always be compared against them or their reputations or it will always be his strengths aren't what theirs were etc. 
 

On 27/06/2020 at 11:08 AM, Vincent said:

That's no excuse. Kepa is a good, maybe great goalkeeper in some parts of the game. But he lacks a lot of football intelligence, which is something i really care about in the contemporary game. He lacks more than i would expect for a £71m goalkeeper, which i can't blame him for ofcourse. Sometimes players want to prove themselves too bad, which leads to mistakes. The lofted pass you're talking about, was totally unnecesariliy, with hardly any pressure on him and Rudiger and Christensen next to him. I've said this before, goalkeepers in this era have to be more than just players that stop the opponent from scoring. If you know your shortcomings as a goalkeeper, you should keep it as clean and simple as possible. Football is simple, but simple football is difficult, Johan Cruijff once said.

He took a risk but if he pulled that pass off Alonso/Emerson (cannot remember who played think it was Marcos) would of had space to go into as opposed to if he played that slightly safer to one of the CBs, Sterling and Mahrez or whoever were wide would of been able to make it up and pressure them. The willingness of us playing out under pressure or against pressing teams really has dropped since Sarri left. I dont think it was a huge issue that pass, nothing came of it, sometimes Alisson or Ederson or De Gea take risks with their kicking etc too and for all the amazing passes or whatever they provide youll find there will similar ones that didnt come off or were recovered by the other team etc. Its not as if it was a bad idea because if the ball was a foot or 2 foot higher Alonso would of had it and we would of been in their half. 

[Vesper 30,195]

I think he is shit

and I was a big defender last year

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

He hasn't got a strength, he can't command his box, he's average with his feet and that fucking face he pulls when concedes a goal and looks at everyone else pisses me right off.

I've only just learnt from the last match not to take any notice of him after we concede. He appeals to the ref EVERY TIME HE CONCEDES.

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[Pizy 18,926]

I think his transfer fee and length of contract mean he's basically stuck here. I'm sure his wages are massive for a keeper as well.

Where could he even go? And would the club take a mega loss just to move on quickly?

[Special Juan 28,141]

Simon Phillips saying it may rest on us loaning him to get a new keeper.

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Just now, Special Juan said:

Simon Phillips saying it may rest on us loaning him to get a new keeper.

The problem with that is the amortisation of his transfer fee is around £10m per season and he's on huge wages. No team is going to pay a sizeable loan fee and his wages in full for him.

Even loaning him out is going to be a massive cost for us.

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1 minute ago, Special Juan said:

Simon Phillips saying it may rest on us loaning him to get a new keeper.

Has a player with 5+ years left on a contract ever been loaned before for the entirety of their contract? 

Maybe we can send him back to Bilbao.

[Special Juan 28,141]

He's shite, just fuck him off on loan and pay some of his wages.

Oblak would my choice I think he's the best around.

[Superblue 6,372]

6 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Has a player with 5+ years left on a contract ever been loaned before for the entirety of their contract? 

Maybe we can send him back to Bilbao.

From what I've heard the backup Bilbao brought through to replace Kepa, they think is better than him.

[Vesper 30,195]

8 minutes ago, Mana said:

How can Marina give Kepa a 7 year contract? Kepa was never WC to begin with.

Mind boggles.

it makes me want to scream

she is HORRID at contractual management

it is her worst area

[killer1257 3,282]

it makes me want to scream
she is HORRID at contractual management
it is her worst area

Question is who wanted to buy him. I highly doubt that was Marina.

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41 minutes ago, killer1257 said:

Question is who wanted to buy him. I highly doubt that was Marina.

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The problem was that the board did not adequately plan around what was happening with TC. Let's be honest, they had around 1-2 years to be scouting a GK before he left as he refused to sign an extension for ages (this should have made it clear he would leave sooner rather than later.) 

I have had a theory since the Summer 18 that what happened was Chelsea thought they had signed Alisson and for some reason it fell through (my guess here is that the Dipper's either went higher on the bid and we refused to match it or the Dipper's turned his head in some way.) This line of thinking is supported by Alisson, who said he was in negotiations with us, and TC who said he was told in March that he could leave (I believe him on this.)

When the Alisson deal then fell through, Granny then tried to make TC stay (as there was no plan b ) and he said 'fuck you, Granny' at which point panic stations set in. From there, they then started scrambling around for a GK but were further boxed in as they;

a) refused to do something like pay £10m to get a Cech/Foster etc elder statesmens in to cover our arse whilst we scouted a new GK.

b ) they had left things super late (so no one who was established - Oblak etc - was going to move that late)

c) we had either stopped scouting GK's with Alisson and/or hadn't been scouting GK properly. 

That then left the board/Granny to look at buy outs (Granny's fav type of transfer as she then does not have to negotiate) and they some how ended up at Kepa (at this point I have to suspect the use of hard drugs, say crack or acid.) 

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34 minutes ago, killer1257 said:

Question is who wanted to buy him. I highly doubt that was Marina.

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34 minutes ago, killer1257 said:

Question is who wanted to buy him. I highly doubt that was Marina.

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And someone must have scouted him and given a recommendation. That person needs o have their eyes checked. His weaknesses are there in plain sight. This and his obvious physical attributes that are completely disadvantageous for a pro athlete (short weak limbs, lacking core strength, poor leap and no explosiveness) . The only thing he is good at is making the easy goals he concedes look like like worldies by always being in the wrong position and stupidly Swinging his arms around like a child trying to fly. And even at that he failed miserably yesterday.