Kepa Arrizabalaga

[killer1257 3,282]

You gotta wonder what on earth are Kepa and the coaching staff doing in training when the same problems with him keep on happening.
Lampard was asked Kepa's form in his presser earlier and unsurprisingly, he gave a rather diplomatic answer... 

You could also ask the same question why Willian nor the Coaching staff for instance never improved his flaws or Zouma never learned to be a ball playing defender or Azpi never learned how to be a good Offensive FB etc.

That is his weakness and he can work on it all day long, but he has to show it in the match. It seems to me that Kepa struggles with confidence

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[Jase 43,479]

6 minutes ago, killer1257 said:

You could also ask the same question why Willian nor the Coaching staff for instance never improved his flaws or Zouma never learned to be a ball playing defender or Azpi never learned how to be a good Offensive FB etc.

That is his weakness and he can work on it all day long, but he has to show it in the match. It seems to me that Kepa struggles with confidence

There are A LOT to question about what this team do in training but I only mentioned Kepa because we were talking about Kepa. 

[Special Juan 27,422]

I started to ask questions of him when he was basically beaten by a corner from Ziyech

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

5 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

I started to ask questions of him when he was basically beaten by a corner from Ziyech

For me that goal by Sturridge great shot but he's slow getting into position. 

[Vesper 28,768]

3 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

No one conceded less goals this season in top5 leagues and has more clean sheets than Rajkovic from Reims. He should be on the list too. 

looks promising!

good catch

[bigbluewillie 1,859]

I've never rated Kepa from the off, he's too much of a flapper.

I can't understand how the fuck we paid £76M for him or for that fact why we bought him at all, yet another panic buy.

He might be ok as a 2nd choice but no better than that

[OneMoSalah 8,776]

He has struggled this season but lets not forget how many countless big saves he made last season in games where we werent great.

People branding him a panic buy really are forgetful and need to calm down. 

I am concerned with how hes being coached behind the scenes though. 

[Styl1994 188]

23 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

He has struggled this season but lets not forget how many countless big saves he made last season in games where we werent great.

People branding him a panic buy really are forgetful and need to calm down. 

I am concerned with how hes being coached behind the scenes though. 

tbh he was clearly a third choice option 

we wanted Allison first but couldn't do a deal for Courtois in time and Liverpool got him then we wanted to pay Oblak buyout but he turned us down. 

[Jase 43,479]

 

[chippy 342]

My tactic to play against us would be to shoot as soon aa you get inside our half. You only need two on target and one will go in.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Two shots on target - two goals. He just isn't good enough, simple as that. 

[Fulham Broadway 16,831]

Said months ago he's not up to the job

[Jase 43,479]

At this point, just play Caballero or Jamie Cumming. Can't be any worse! 

[Tomo 21,733]

I tried to convince myself he's a system keeper and he'd look better once we get better but recently we have been shutting teams out for the most part yet still conceding the few times they venture in our box. It's everybit as bad as the Bravo situation at City at this point.

We need to sign another keeper in the next ten days. Given the price tag he'll probably have to get one more chance but we need a solid contingency plan.

[Tomo 21,733]

Also regarding Kepa's stats, in a perverse way they can also be cause for hope if we sort out his replacement soon. Why? Because it means we aren't conceding as many chances as the goal against collum suggests, which means our defensive issues could be a lot more fixable than we think.

[Vesper 28,768]

17 minutes ago, Tomo said:

I tried to convince myself he's a system keeper and he'd look better once we get better but recently we have been shutting teams out for the most part yet still conceding the few times they venture in our box. It's everybit as bad as the Bravo situation at City at this point.

We need to sign another keeper in the next ten days. Given the price tag he'll probably have to get one more chance but we need a solid contingency plan.

at this point

Kepa is basically unsaleable

we are on the amortised books for around £120m or so after this season (trans fee plus salary owed for FIVE more years at £10m per anum)

lets say we somehow found a club that will pay (it will a non EPL club for sure) £32m (around 40m euros) trans fee for him

BUT

there is ZERO chance they pay all of his insane salary, especially as it is owed in pounds and the Euro is weak as shit atm

so we will have to probably eat £25m to 30m of his remaining 5 years of salary as well

meaning we take a £65m to £70m pure LOSS on his arse atm (and still a massive loss moving forward, unless he magically comes good)

but hej

our board are godlike sages according to some on here

 

 

 

[Superblue 6,370]

10 minutes ago, Vesper said:

at this point

Kepa is basically unsaleable

we are on the amortised books for around £120m or so after this season (trans fee plus salary owed for FIVE more years at £10m per anum)

lets say we somehow found a club that will pay (it will a non EPL club for sure) £32m (around 40m euros) trans fee for him

BUT

there is ZERO chance they pay all of his insane salary, especially as it is owed in pounds and the Euro is weak as shit atm

so we will have to probably eat £25m to 30m of his remaining 5 years of salary as well

meaning we take a £65m to £70m pure LOSS on his arse atm (and still a massive loss moving forward, unless he magically comes good)

but hej

our board are godlike sages according to some on here

He's still well regarded in Spain but beyond Barca and Real the options are very thin.

If we could convince Oblak to join a new project and challenge then it's possible we may be able to set up a swap deal of some sort with Atletico to mitigate a large portion of the cost but like you said any other clubs in Spain are unlikely to pay both big money and big wages and don't really have outstanding goalkeeping options for us to try to broker some sort of deal with. 

[Vesper 28,768]

18 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said:

He's still well regarded in Spain but beyond Barca and Real the options are very thin.

If we could convince Oblak to join a new project and challenge then it's possible we may be able to set up a swap deal of some sort with Atletico to mitigate a large portion of the cost but like you said any other clubs in Spain are unlikely to pay both big money and big wages and don't really have outstanding goalkeeping options for us to try to broker some sort of deal with. 

AM will never swap the best or 2nd best GK on the planet for the dodgy Kepa unless we ate that 65-70m, and then they still will tell us to go fuck ourselves I figure

Oblak's release clause is now well over £100m btw

lets say we outright bought him

and we somehow ended up losing only 50m quid on Kepa net on net

Oblak's salary demands will be at least 25m pounds more (over 5 years) than Kepa's

so 75m over 5 years

add in the 20m in salary we will have already paid Kepa for last season and this one

meaning 

a 50m net loss on Kepa

20m in Kepa salary already paid

105m in Oblak RC

75m or so for Oblak salary over 5 years

equals

£250m or so amortised total cost over the the 7 year period (2 of Kepa, 5 of Oblak) JUST FOR A GK

let that sink in

a quarter of a billion quid just for 7 total years of first string GK play

LOLOLOLOLOL

goooooooooooooo board