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Man Utd out on pens 🤣🤣

Good enough to be a 3rd choice keeper at Championship level...?

Yep... Would like to see him and Archer given a run in the side to see if they can forge a partnership together.

Harsh...🫢

Sacked before the Old Firm derby? (Which would be a shame as was looking forward to that 😁)

Good to hear 👍🏻

A thread that probably accounts for around 70% of my 56k posts... 😂

This signing reminds me of the days where we were buying 'best of breed' players in the lower leagues... The liked of Fonte, Lambert and Hammond. Exactly how it should be when we've got more financial muscle than most teams in the league 👍🏻

Good shout. I got Lallana vibes when watching the video above but Tadic fits as a comparison too

It sounds like his forte is putting the ball on a plate for strikers.... so I guess we'll soon discover if our strikers' profligatory has been down to poor service or their lack of clinicality....

A good watch / listen

Yep... he's a 9/10 signing for me (gut feel)

Seems a bit of a mixed bag... no extreme views one way or t'other but definitely more leaning towards the 'disappointed' end of the scale.

If he doesn't "hate Pompey" then I ain't interested mush

The first name that entered my head whilst watching that was "Lallana"....

Don't we need to separate 'loan + obligation to buy' scenarios and straight-forward loans without any committment? I can't think why we'd want / need to avoid the latter?

Am I right in thinking this fella has similar attributes to Stu Armstrong? (a player I don't feel we've ever properly replaced... up until now...?)

I think your mammary is playing tricks on you there

Not sure. I'd probably primarily rate a keeper based on how many 'saveable' shots they let in. Not sure if that counts as a "stat" or not but it's as simple as that for me. (Being a simple kinda guy )

In all seriousness, I've just read my original post back and, yes, I can see there was an element of 'dog whistling' about the way I worded it, so apologies @gio1saints for my sarky response. I remain genuinely interested though in how our keeper(s) compare against other championship sides, and how much that might impact upon our chances of auto-promotion 👍

Interesting if true (cards on the table time: I'm not a championship goalkeeper officionado, hence my curiosity on the subject) By what measures / stats was he "awful" btw? (not doubting what you say, just genuine interest, as always...)

Is that one of those "I'm ITK but cant say anything outright so I'll pose it as a question" type questions? (Used to be known as "Doing a Hypo" back in the day )

Are you my wife? Ok... if it makes you happy, yes, I admit it, youve caught me out hook line and sinker there and I humbly apologise. Now, is there any housework you'd like me to help you out with pumpkin? ❤️