Kepa Arrizabalaga

[Jase 43,479]

Just now, the wes said:

I don't know why some lads are worried about kepa height the thing I'm worried about is Luiz and Alonso keep getting on the starting line up 

Chill out. We are not criticizing him for his height. It's just a random, minor discussion. 

[Vesper 29,043]

Lol at all the freaking out over Kepa's height.  He is around 1.89m.

For comparison...... ffs

Iker Casillas  1.85m

Oliver Kahn  1.88m

Gianluigi Buffon  1.91m

Lev Yashin  1.89m

Gordon Banks  1.85m

Neville Southall  1.85m

Dino Zoff    1.82m

Peter Shilton   1.83m

Sepp Maier  1.85m

 

RELAX!!!!!!!

 

 

[Polo7 3,496]

Lol I can’t even believe this is a discussion. 

[laeth 527]

I think he needs to work on his long range passing. Don't think he hit the mark once today. He also goes long too often atm for me. He needs to try a mid range pass to the wing if the centre backs and Jorginho are being pressed. 

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54 minutes ago, Belgiannutt said:

1 inch is 2.54 cm. 

188,01 cm is 6.1683 feet

189 cm is 6.2008 feet

Do not forget that 6.2 feet is NOT the same as 6 feet 2 inches, lolol 189 is around 6 feet 2 and a half inches

so many make that mistake (NOT saying you are)

its why metric is best!! (divisible by 10 so only decimal point moves needed)

I am 183cm, so a cunt hair (not mine, I wax!!) over 6 feet

My older sister (I am baby of a TALL family by 20 years and byfar the shortets, thank dog, when you see their heights) is closest to me. She is 190cm and seems to tower over me (in my mind at least) as does all my nuclear family does.  My mum is 192cm, My father is 199cm, and both my brother were around 2 metres tall  (the passed on one was 1.99, same as Courtois and my dad) the yonger (but still 22 tears older than me, lol) is 200.5cm (and CLAIMS that extra 0.5 likes its a full 5 extra!!!!!, lolol)

I live in stilettos (thus am boosted up to around 6 3  ie 190, 191cm easy), so I can tell you (if you are not close to 187 to 190ish in real life) that even without them, and especially when I am out of Sweden (as we are tall anyway, like the Dutch, and Dinaric Alps/Adriatic area people) I tend to also tower over people, especially other girls /women.

Bottom line, 189cm or so is totally fine for a keeper,  look at all the best in history, the VAST majority were 182cm to  189cm (Buffon is 191cm so very close), with only moderate level of exception. exceptions

Kepa has really good vertical leap and has super quick reflexes. I repeat, if I had known I had the wrong release clause for him, I would have been banging the bell to grab him, once Oblak (the best in world IMHO) and Alisson (who Kepa should eventually be better than anyway) were no longer available.

 

I was so pushing Alex Meret (190cm), but that cunt De Laurentiis got him for

Nnapoli,and for only £19m!!) and then, of course, Thomas Strakosha (193cm).

BUT I would take Kepa over BOTH, in a flash, by far. we got a really WORLD CLASS GK!! (AND only 23!!!!)

We also got the 2nd best (after Busquets, who is 30 now and only has 2 or 3 years or so at the top left) Defensive combo deep playing MFs in the world, in Jorginho,  TRULY superb players. And I REALLY rate Mateo Kovacic, he is going to be a BEAST. He is the poor mans version of SMS, and I think is better than Piotr Zielinski for napoli. 

To see how I rated him (and this is when I thought Real would never give him up, exact same mistake I made with Athletic Bilbao and Kepa) see here (one of my better posts, btw)

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, El P. said:

Ok, so he is 189, judging by that picture with De Gea.

Not only Courtois, ČECH is giant too. From 2004 we are having 195+ cms tall GK, no wonder that this one looks short to us.

That is a perfectly fair point, but I am not going to worry about it. Real Madrid wanted (still deep down does) Kepa over ALL others, even De Gea. Courtois (rightly so as he is a fucking beast, just a cunt of a person) is the ONLY other GK's they have gobbed on about for last 3,4,5 years. Kepa TURNED THEM DOWN. It was partially a political thing. The Basque region HATES HATES (even more than Barca and Catalonia do) Madrid and the central government.

ETA, you have heard of them? Like IRA of northern Spain. Euskadi Ta Askatasuna.

Real Madrid was THE team of the reactionary dictatorship under Franco, for decades. The rest of Spain HATES them, partially for this. It would be like a Yorkist King having an official footie clubs during the War of the Roses. The Lancastrians would HATE THEM.

Why do you think Bilbao is called ATHLETIC Bilbao? NOT Atletico? Because they do not want to use use Castilian Spanish in their name. Franco banned all the other regional languages. Basque and Catalan especially. It is why Barca's Nou Camp is so so so big (besides football passion). It were they could all gather and speak Catalan. The same for Athletic and also (but to lesser extent) Real Sociedad, SD Eibar, Deportivo Alavés, and then in Catalonia, Barca, RCD Espanyol, Gimnàstic de Tarragona, UE Lleida, Girona FC

Més que un club  <<< Barca motto 

 

Bilbao ONLY takes in Basque players (Basques are also in Southwest France (like Aymeric Laporte, now on Manchester Shitty) Many (there are exceptions ) refuse to ever play for Real Madrid 

Con cantera y afición, no hace falta importación"  <<< with talent and support from the home, you do not need imports (cantera means quarry, like a rock quarry, but in Basque it also means youth academy)

Also they will sign Basque-born and raised players of another ethnicity (best example now is Iñaki Williams, who is half Ghanaian, half Liberian, but born and raised in Blibao.)

Kepa is one of the Basques who refuses to go to the Capital clubs.

Basque Flag

Here is a Basque comedy show called Vaya Semanita where an Athletic Bilbao fan goes to Madrid and finds some neo-Nazis who are going to beat him for supporting a Basque team, but later slips out of the issue by saying that the Athletic, by only signing in Basque players, they are the only team made up entirely by Spaniards.

 

 

[Azpinator 2,325]

...the fuck did I just read?

[Sideshow Luiz 2,310]

If the biggest problem with Kepa is that no one can agree on his height, then we'll be okay!

[quickpassnmove 924]

I am 187 and he definitely looks a hair shorter, so 186 sounds accurate.

I like his demeanor and minimal expression, plus his strong legs. Despite the height difference, I would tend to choose a player like Kepa over Thibault if I were choosing only based upon appearance, demeanor, body morphology, gait and overall movement. Looking them over briefly, I think Kepa looks physically stronger than both Lloris and DeGea.

Kepa is one cool cat with skills and a good build too. That's my first impression. Positive.  Good luck to him and our side this season!

[The Skipper 20,593]

On 10/08/2018 at 7:08 PM, manpe said:

and not be like pool fans sending death threats to Karius.

I chuckled.

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On 8/10/2018 at 6:14 PM, Jason said:

 

Pretty good representation of some of the gk skill. De gea is definitely the best shot stopper and ederson long range distribution is just ridiculous 

[Pepsi 34]

Like most people here, I would like him to work on his height, maybe train some more to grow an extra cm or 2. Every other aspects of him looks very promising for a young world class goal keeper.

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[Unionjack 7,531]

LOL Short arse bastard!

Lets stick him in some 6" Walter Steiger stilettos shall we

[Jase 43,479]

 

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21 hours ago, quickpassnmove said:

I am 187 and he definitely looks a hair shorter, so 186 sounds accurate.

I like his demeanor and minimal expression, plus his strong legs. Despite the height difference, I would tend to choose a player like Kepa over Thibault if I were choosing only based upon appearance, demeanor, body morphology, gait and overall movement. Looking them over briefly, I think Kepa looks physically stronger than both Lloris and DeGea.

Kepa is one cool cat with skills and a good build too. That's my first impression. Positive.  Good luck to him and our side this season!

Ho can you know you are taller than him when you habe never actually stood in front of him? The pictures of Him next to Rüdiger and de Gea who are both 1,91 i think suggest he is just a bit shorter so 1,89 is probably accurate. He is only 23 so maybe he grew a bit since the 1,86 was taken. People height also varies over the day by 2-3 cms so actually both measurs might be accurate depending on the time it was taken.

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[Unionjack 7,531]

1 hour ago, the wes said:

 

I can't wait for us to be that well disciplined. I know Its not going to happen overnight bit Ive faith it WILL happen.