Kepa Arrizabalaga

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

49 minutes ago, Patrick Bamford said:

 

was thining the same. the ball is not even right in the corner. it is right at him. his positioning is so shit that he noticed he was too far in the narrow corner and adjusted himself in the exact moment the ball was headed against his direction of movement. still if he would be better at well.... moving he would catch that easily as it was not even that powerful a header. Kepa is simply not build to be a professional athlete.

Zouma should be winnign the header vs the smaller man tho, albeit it is christensen's positon as right cb

[Arlen Correa 161]

The goalkeeper Ivan(23) of the brazilian olimpic team is very good. He still cheap and could be a option. Apparently linked with some european clubs, but i dont know if its true.

[Nero 1,838]

We need this guy

 

[DDA 9,690]

16 minutes ago, Patrick Bamford said:

We need this guy

 

He looks pretty good tbf. Ten times better than Kepa.

Was Kepa always this bad though?

It seems it may be a confidence issue. He made some decent saves in his first season under Sarri.

[Laylabelle 9,351]

9 hours ago, DDA said:

He looks pretty good tbf. Ten times better than Kepa.

Was Kepa always this bad though?

It seems it may be a confidence issue. He made some decent saves in his first season under Sarri.

And some good saves this season! Then the basics one he somehow flaps and messes up. Or punches the ball out to the opposition player 

He doesnt feel you with confidence..at all.

[Nero 1,838]

 

[Fulham Broadway 16,829]

Willing to pay £90 million to get rid according to Spanish sources- probably bollocks though

https://as.com/futbol/2020/07/14/primera/1594705337_203404.html?m1=cG9ydGFkYV9wb3J0YWRh&m2=QUNUVUFMSURBRA%3D%3D&m3=Mg%3D%3D&m4=dmlkZW8%3D&m5=MjE%3D

[Jype 6,398]

1 hour ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Willing to pay £90 million to get rid according to Spanish sources- probably bollocks though

https://as.com/futbol/2020/07/14/primera/1594705337_203404.html?m1=cG9ydGFkYV9wb3J0YWRh&m2=QUNUVUFMSURBRA%3D%3D&m3=Mg%3D%3D&m4=dmlkZW8%3D&m5=MjE%3D

Only way the club are paying £90M for Oblak is if Atletico take part-exchange with Kepa valued 50M or higher.

[Puliiszola 519]

I think all of this kepa leaving is impossible imo.

He was bought for 70m on a 7 year contract, which makes his amortized value 10m per year.

Basically we need to sell him for atleast 50m to break even for 2020/21, which is next to impossible. 

Best thing would be to keep him. Build a defence. Get a LB, a CB. And hope he comes good. He was no where near bad in Bilbao, or even during the first half of the last season. 

Can't pinpoint exactly, but he seemed to be doing well till the city incident. Even replaced DdG as Spain's no.1, did not he? 

Again, don't know what's wrong with him, or that he is just out of his depth. But the best course of action financially would be to stick with him and build the defence.

[DDA 9,690]

Watching back his highlights of his first season .... he wasn't this bad.

Something has happened to this guy... mentally, he's not there. 

Watch his highlights of him at Bilbao... he is highly energetic... ready to save anything and everything. He has far better positioning. 

Now he looks scared to save the ball ffs.

[MoroccanBlue 5,296]

1 minute ago, DDA said:

Watching back his highlights of his first season .... he wasn't this bad.

Something has happened to this guy... mentally, he's not there. 

Watch his highlights of him at Bilbao... he is highly energetic... ready to save anything and everything. He has far better positioning. 

Now he looks scared to save the ball ffs.

Look who's in front of him. Confidence shot. 

It's the same as Ederson now. 

[DDA 9,690]

3 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Look who's in front of him. Confidence shot. 

It's the same as Ederson now. 

100% the defence doesn't help but I would like to know what Bilbaos defensive stats were when he was there. He seemed alot more assured between the sticks in Spain than he does here. Maybe his pricetag has mounted too much pressure than he can handle. Not everyone has elite mentality.

[Atomiswave 6,072]

4 minutes ago, DDA said:

Watching back his highlights of his first season .... he wasn't this bad.

Something has happened to this guy... mentally, he's not there. 

Watch his highlights of him at Bilbao... he is highlt energetic... ready to save anything and everything. He has far better positioning. 

Now he looks scared to save the ball ffs.

Most def, he looks shot mentally

[Milan 17,853]

9 minutes ago, DDA said:

Watching back his highlights of his first season .... he wasn't this bad.

Something has happened to this guy... mentally, he's not there. 

Watch his highlights of him at Bilbao... he is highly energetic... ready to save anything and everything. He has far better positioning. 

Now he looks scared to save the ball ffs.

There were some reports of him breaking up with his girlfriend around January. I have no idea myself but I remember reading it and the papers focusing on it, saying his form is down to this.

[DDA 9,690]

1 minute ago, Milan said:

There were some reports of him breaking up with his girlfriend around January. I have no idea myself but I remember reading it and the papers focusing on it, saying his form is down to this.

Well he needs to man the fuck up otherwise he will end up in the Spanish 3rd division looking for the dregs on plenty of fish.

[whats happening 1,525]

every game we have a different back four in front of him. not surprising that we are struggling. quite hard to build partnership with your defenders like that.

[Jype 6,398]

2 minutes ago, Milan said:

There were some reports of him breaking up with his girlfriend around January. I have no idea myself but I remember reading it and the papers focusing on it, saying his form is down to this.

Yeah, I remember that too. For a keeper it's very dangerous if his head is not in the game. Breaking up with his girl might have affected him for a while, but as time went on and his performances hit rock bottom it takes miracles to recover the confidence. 

But either way, I've never really considered Kepa a top keeper. He was doing okay last season but even then he never showed any world class potential. 

[Tomo 21,733]

24 minutes ago, Puliiszola said:

I think all of this kepa leaving is impossible imo.

He was bought for 70m on a 7 year contract, which makes his amortized value 10m per year.

Basically we need to sell him for atleast 50m to break even for 2020/21, which is next to impossible. 

Best thing would be to keep him. Build a defence. Get a LB, a CB. And hope he comes good. He was no where near bad in Bilbao, or even during the first half of the last season. 

Can't pinpoint exactly, but he seemed to be doing well till the city incident. Even replaced DdG as Spain's no.1, did not he? 

Again, don't know what's wrong with him, or that he is just out of his depth. But the best course of action financially would be to stick with him and build the defence.

Problem is when our XGA rate is up there with Liverpool and the keepers save% is the worst in PL history out of first choice keepers that strongly suggests it's more a keeper issue than defense (not atall saying the latter is blameless).

For example yesterday we were nervous late in the game despite the fact Norwich created nothing/we kept them completely at bay because we knew any sort of clean strike could end up as a goal. How many times this season has our opponents only real efforts lead to goals?

We need new defenders to catch up with the elite but a new keeper has to be first port of call to make the next step (comfortable top 4, not frittering away points in games we're comfortable in and somewhat more competitive in the CL). We may not be able to sell him this summer but he's still highly thought off in Spain so we'll be able to find a loan home for him, if there's a will there's a way, even United found somewhere for Alexis.