Willy Caballero

[SuperSAINT]

 

[CB Fry]

Well, it's an easy headline for The Sun. So that's something.

[saint lard]

So…Willys going to fill the hole. 😳

[davefizzy14]

Sounds like it's a done deal.

[miserableoldgit]

"Willy Caballero set for Southampton medical tomorrow ahead of signing a short-term deal following injuries to Alex McCarthy and Fraser Forster.

The 40-year-old Argentine has been training with AFC Wimbledon to keep himself fit and key figures at the club acted quickly to wrap up a deal on Sunday.

Caballero was keen to join as soon as he heard about the opportunity and one of the key attractions for Southampton was that his style will fit into the club’s goalkeeping playbook."

[stevy777_x]

Good stop gap signing this is

[Billy the Kidd]

13 minutes ago, miserableoldgit said:

"Willy Caballero set for Southampton medical tomorrow ahead of signing a short-term deal following injuries to Alex McCarthy and Fraser Forster.

The 40-year-old Argentine has been training with AFC Wimbledon to keep himself fit and key figures at the club acted quickly to wrap up a deal on Sunday.

Caballero was keen to join as soon as he heard about the opportunity and one of the key attractions for Southampton was that his style will fit into the club’s goalkeeping playbook."

Has anyone got a copy of our goalkeeping playbook? 

Actually, has Ralph even asked our GKs to read it?

[Billy the Kidd]

That said, very happy with this, am I alone thinking he may actually be better than what we already have at the club?

[Miltonaggro]

1 minute ago, Billy the Kidd said:

Has anyone got a copy of our goalkeeping playbook? 

Actually, has Ralph even asked our GKs to read it?

It was written by Jeffrey Archer! 

[Appy]

7 minutes ago, Billy the Kidd said:

That said, very happy with this, am I alone thinking he may actually be better than what we already have at the club?

Nope. 

[Badger]

22 minutes ago, Billy the Kidd said:

That said, very happy with this, am I alone thinking he may actually be better than what we already have at the club?

Hope so.

Just hope he's fully fit and not too rusty needing a few weeks to get up to speed.

[Turkish]

23 minutes ago, Billy the Kidd said:

That said, very happy with this, am I alone thinking he may actually be better than what we already have at the club?

 No you’re not, he’s certainly no worse 

[Lighthouse]

Hopefully he's fit and doesn't have any injury issues. I'd hate to see Willy getting too stiff and having to be pulled off at half time.

[FarehamSaintJames]

Good signing. Certainly no worse than what we’ve got, but almost likely better than what we’ve got.

Amazed to see he’s been training with AFC Wimbledon, how bizarre, out of all the places you could train!

Feel like we should delve into the free agent market more for players of experience.

[Lighthouse]

4 minutes ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

Good signing. Certainly no worse than what we’ve got, but almost likely better than what we’ve got.

Amazed to see he’s been training with AFC Wimbledon, how bizarre, out of all the places you could train!

Feel like we should delve into the free agent market more for players of experience.

I don't know where exactly they train but geographically, he's not far from Chelsea's Cobham training ground, where he'd been going to work for the last four years. He's been in England for a good while now, so unless he was particularly homesick it all makes sense.

[austsaint]

8 minutes ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

Good signing. Certainly no worse than what we’ve got, but almost likely better than what we’ve got.

Amazed to see he’s been training with AFC Wimbledon, how bizarre, out of all the places you could train!

Feel like we should delve into the free agent market more for players of experience.

Given Caballero's age age maybe Kelvin will be filling the bench to avoid any generation gaps.

[Ex Lion Tamer]

Have to say that 40 is pretty old, I hope he's still got it.

He's good with his feet if I remember rightly, so will fit with the style Ralph wants to play

[egg]

What's the purpose of us having Lewis around the place as 3rd choice if he's not going to play when the 1st and 2nd choice can't? Seems completely pointless. 

[John Boy Saint]

44 minutes ago, Badger said:

Hope so.

Just hope he's fully fit and not too rusty needing a few weeks to get up to speed.

We won’t see him until New Years Day - “as he will need to be conditioned into the way we play”.

[Lighthouse]

9 minutes ago, egg said:

What's the purpose of us having Lewis around the place as 3rd choice if he's not going to play when the 1st and 2nd choice can't? Seems completely pointless. 

I would assume he was signed as one for the future, as a 17 year old, and is basically third choice by default.

[egg]

1 minute ago, Lighthouse said:

I would assume he was signed as one for the future, as a 17 year old, and is basically third choice by default.

That must be right, but I have a feeling his contract was extended last summer. It seems his 3rd place duties are to fill the bench when we have nobody else, but never be trusted to actually play. Bizarre use of wages. 

[Disco Stu]

Let's hope this man can work miracles.

[CB Fry]

15 minutes ago, John Boy Saint said:

We won’t see him until New Years Day - “as he will need to be conditioned into the way we play”.

Er, no. We haven't got any fit goalkeepers.

[Pamplemousse]

I give it 20 minutes into the Arsenal game before he gets written off

[Ivan Katalinic's 'tache]

11 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

I give it 20 minutes into the Arsenal game before he gets written off

He should be honoured if we let him set foot on the pitch before we write him off...

[trousers]

16 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

I give it 20 hours before the Arsenal game before he gets written off

Fixed it for you (this is Saintsweb we're talking about here)

[OttawaSaint]

2 hours ago, trousers said:

Fixed it for you (this is Saintsweb we're talking about here)

Willy out!

[Far que]

willy is in always good

[Suhari]

He should stiffen us up at the back.

[skintsaint]

Jesus Wept. Must mean the other two are out for a decent time.

[a1ex2001]

1 hour ago, skintsaint said:

Jesus Wept. Must mean the other two are out for a decent time.

Good they have both been shocking fir a while now and for some reason the manager insists on playing the worst of the two!  Willy will have to be shocking to be worse!

[CB Fry]

7 hours ago, Pamplemousse said:

I give it 20 minutes into the Arsenal game before he gets written off

 

7 hours ago, trousers said:

Fixed it for you (this is Saintsweb we're talking about here)

Yes but according to SaintsWeb rules, every single player that gets slagged off and written off at the beginning then goes on to prove absolutely everyone wrong because Sadio Mane or something. In recent years this process has become shorter and shorter, with Lycano possibly the shortest ever time from write off to comprehensively proving absolutely everyone wrong.

So I predict three days after the first "written off" the victory laps of "I told you so" will begin. Willy cannot fail.

[wild-saint]

9 hours ago, Billy the Kidd said:

Has anyone got a copy of our goalkeeping playbook? 

Actually, has Ralph even asked our GKs to read it?

IT says something about dot bother covering the near post as we will have someone on the post/

[Turkish]

9 hours ago, egg said:

What's the purpose of us having Lewis around the place as 3rd choice if he's not going to play when the 1st and 2nd choice can't? Seems completely pointless. 

It could be a Caceres/Stephens situation where we believe Harry Lewis is the new Peter Schmicheal so keep an obviously much better more experienced player on the bench to prove it. Remember We don’t buy success we breed it. 

[sammysaint93]

Free Willy

[Saint_clark]

9 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

I would assume he was signed as one for the future, as a 17 year old, and is basically third choice by default.

He's now 23 and has played a full season on loan as first choice Dundee United, it's a huge show of no confidence that we're not willing to give him a go. 

[Jeremy Corbyn]

8 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

He's now 23 and has played a full season on loan as first choice Dundee United, it's a huge show of no confidence that we're not willing to give him a go. 

Yeah, very odd.  What happened at Dundee?  To have a full season in the Scottish Championship at 19/20 years old is reasonably promising and then it just looks like he came back to Southampton to stagnate.

[Toussaint]

Hope he's focussing on his football and not fannying around.

[Turkish]

Good to see the club moving quickly to being in an experienced glovesman anyway. Good keeper. Surprised he’s without a club

[Saint_clark]

5 minutes ago, Jeremy Corbyn said:

Yeah, very odd.  What happened at Dundee?  To have a full season in the Scottish Championship at 19/20 years old is reasonably promising and then it just looks like he came back to Southampton to stagnate.

They finished 3rd conceding 42 goals in 36 games, but he only made 30 appearances so not sure how many he conceded. 

There is a video of him dealing with an awkward pass back in a pretty clever way, by pulling off a diving header at the feet of the attacker to pass it to a teammate. That's the extent of his existing highlights.

[Baird of the land]

10 hours ago, egg said:

What's the purpose of us having Lewis around the place as 3rd choice if he's not going to play when the 1st and 2nd choice can't? Seems completely pointless. 

He's there to be the cheap match day warm up person, which is exactly what Stuart Taylor's job was.

[VectisSaint]

Interesting that he has made less professional appearances since 2017 than Harry Lewis.

[Turkish]

7 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

They finished 3rd conceding 42 goals in 36 games, but he only made 30 appearances so not sure how many he conceded. 

There is a video of him dealing with an awkward pass back in a pretty clever way, by pulling off a diving header at the feet of the attacker to pass it to a teammate. That's the extent of his existing highlights.

But has won more than any other player in our squad, probably all of the put together. 

[Saint_clark]

6 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

They finished 3rd conceding 42 goals in 36 games, but he only made 30 appearances so not sure how many he conceded. 

There is a video of him dealing with an awkward pass back in a pretty clever way, by pulling off a diving header at the feet of the attacker to pass it to a teammate. That's the extent of his existing highlights.

Just checked, 14 clean sheets in 30 appearances. 

[Saint_clark]

Just now, Turkish said:

But has won more than any other player in our squad, probably all of the put together. 

I assume you mean Caballero, and I understand that. I'm not disappointed with his signing - he's a quality keeper, although it remains to be seen how he has aged - I just dont see the reasoning behind not using Lewis when he's not a youngster nor is he completely lacking in experience. If we aren't willing to give him games now for a few weeks, a month or two at most, we are never intending on him being in the first team.

[Turkish]

4 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

I assume you mean Caballero, and I understand that. I'm not disappointed with his signing - he's a quality keeper, although it remains to be seen how he has aged - I just dont see the reasoning behind not using Lewis when he's not a youngster nor is he completely lacking in experience. If we aren't willing to give him games now for a few weeks, a month or two at most, we are never intending on him being in the first team.

I agree with you but he will also be our only fit keeper so we’d need to bring one in. Will be interesting to see if he plays or not or as I said above it’s a Caceres situation with the young player being preferred over a clearly better and more experienced short term signing.

[stevy777_x]

14 minutes ago, Turkish said:

I agree with you but he will also be our only fit keeper so we’d need to bring one in. Will be interesting to see if he plays or not or as I said above it’s a Caceres situation with the young player being preferred over a clearly better and more experienced short term signing.

They will not be playing Harry Lewis in front of Caballero 

[Toussaint]

36 minutes ago, stevy777_x said:

They will not be playing Harry Lewis in front of Caballero 

That's true, even when your as bad as us the premier league will not allow you to field two goalkeepers at the same time.

[st alex]

56 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

I assume you mean Caballero, and I understand that. I'm not disappointed with his signing - he's a quality keeper, although it remains to be seen how he has aged - I just dont see the reasoning behind not using Lewis when he's not a youngster nor is he completely lacking in experience. If we aren't willing to give him games now for a few weeks, a month or two at most, we are never intending on him being in the first team.

Expect he's lacking in Premier League quality though. There's a huge gulf between the Scottish Championship and the Premier League.

I'm all for giving youngsters a chance but not Jan Poortvliet style where it's at the expense of our performances, they have to actually be good enough.

Tommy Forecast was also our 3rd choice/reserve goalie - doesn't mean there was any intention to ever play him in the Premier League. It looks like he stopped playing at 28 because he couldn't get game time at Chelmsford. While Lewis might be better than that he's clearly not considered Premier League quality.

[Saint_clark]

1 minute ago, st alex said:

Expect he's lacking in Premier League quality though. There's a huge gulf between the Scottish Championship and the Premier League.

I'm all for giving youngsters a chance but not Jan Poortvliet style where it's at the expense of our performances, they have to actually be good enough.

Tommy Forecast was also our 3rd choice/reserve goalie - doesn't mean there was any intention to ever play him in the Premier League. It looks like he stopped playing at 28 because he couldn't get game time at Chelmsford. While Lewis might be better than that he's clearly not considered Premier League quality.

Well then why bother having a third choice keeper at all?