Lighthouse

Breaking news: Bayern Munich fans opinions don't pivot around an Irish GK who has never played for them. Peretz has only ever made four appearances in any top division in his life, conceding five goals. It's perfectly understandable that Bayern fans don't rate him up with Neuer and Ulreich. They are used to seeing one of the best goalkeepers in history, week in, week out. Their standards will be sky high. If someone inexperienced came in and made the mistakes Peretz did against Charlton, Preston, Ipswich and Doncaster, they aren't going to be as forgiving as Saints fans.

They support Bayern Munich, one of the biggest clubs in world football, with expectations of winning the Bundesliga and aspirations of winning the Champions League. Peretz is a decent Championship player but then so were Jan Bednarek, Adam Armstrong and Danny Fox. If by some miracle one of those three ended up at Bayern, the fans would almost unanimously agree that they were sh*t.

Was it Taylor the club made a really elaborate, special forces action thriller style video, just to announce he’d signed a one year extension? I’m pretty sure it was for one of our reserve keepers round about the Koeman/Puel era and was quite laughably OTT.

Makes sense keeping him as back up. I can imagine we're paying him a fair bit less than Baz and McC, which is something which we'll have to factor in this season. A decent amount of experience at this level which will be useful, should Peretz pick up a knock.

The F1 coverage’s obsession with Kim f**king Kardashian, like it’s somehow a privilege for the sport to have her there.

I'd say that was true of Larin and perhaps Matsuki but the two you've mentioned have performed better in previous seasons. Archer scored 11 in half a season previously and Edozie scored 6 and looked dangerous before getting clobbered at Norwich two years ago.

There is absolutely no way we can afford to have Peretz, Baz and Ramsdale on the books next year. I’ll say with near certainty that the latter two won’t be here one way or another. We’re going to need back up keepers and Long fits the bill, having been here half a season already he’s a known quantity and has nearly 300 league appearances.

I don’t edit the BBC sports page, so I’ve no idea what you’re asking.

I’ll pass thanks. Looked poor in the Championship last time and has done nothing at Juve or Everton to suggest any improvement. His whole reputation is propped up by four goals in 2023.

A Championship club being kicked out of the playoffs for cheating is ‘front page’ news. A Championship club signing a goalkeeper isn’t.

I don’t think a 6’1" 24 year old with 23 league goals is going to be either of those things, at least for another Championship team. He’ll most likely end up at one of the promoted teams or somewhere like Leeds or Forest. We have to balance the books this summer, I don’t think we’re going to be seeing £15m+ signings, especially a striker when we’ve just signed Larin.

All this talk of a third signing has got me thinking. Do you reckon we can get #announcehackney trending on Twitter or would that just be really immature?

Awesome, it’s aboot time we announced this, buddy!

SR signed Ben Brereton Diaz, Juan Larios and Nathan Wood to play PL football. I’m not sure you need an ‘agenda’ to criticise them.

If you say so, I've read all this before and I don't just mean Bazunu. Bialkowski in 2012 - "We have to pray Kelvin never gets injured, we'll never get promoted in goal." Then we went up, had a revolving door of goalkeepers and people were slating all three of them, Gazzaniga in particular. Even Boruc copped a lot of flack in our first season up. Then there was FF, post injury when he had his mental health struggles. Save percentage about the same as Baz people were saying he was the reason we lost the 2017 cup final. Stekelenberg, everyone hated him, 'statistically the worst keeper in the league' etc. McCarthy, one howler after after another. If you think Baz is bad then literally every manager who's had a choice has picked him over McC. Two of them decided to swap keepers eventually, there was no improvement and both got sacked six games later. Then there was the absolute meltdown on this forum when we signed George Long on loan... well that's what's coming in a few weeks when we sign another 'backup' keeper. Baz is the worst keeper we've ever seen in the football league... since the last worst keeper we've ever seen and until the next worst keeper we've ever seen.