Gavin Bazunu - Official: Loaned to Stoke

[Miltonaggro]

12 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

 

This one from Adam Blackmore in July aged well   

😂

 

Brownmore gonna brown more...

[influx]

What has Stoke ever done to us?

[Weston Super Saint]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

Why are you praising a false deity for a business transaction involving humans, money and lawyers? The Lord had nothing to do with it, if indeed one does exist. 

I think the fact we've managed to offload Baz AND got someone to pay his wages AND got a loan fee is all the proof ever needed that God does indeed exist.

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

25 minutes ago, influx said:

What has Stoke ever done to us?

Embarrassed Artur Boruc?

[SNSUN]

Another SR disaster signing from the tactic - buy young, sell high. Just because it worked with Livramento and Lavia doesn't mean gold will strike twice/thrice etc.

He was poor, with only fleeting moments of anything resembling competence. That's on SR, not the young, inexperience keeper thrust into the Premier League. He was not the answer and to have persisted for so long with him shows incompetence. 

I can only hope Peretz isn't as crap or worse, or Alex Mc will be back in the sticks before the end of the season.

Stoke must be be preparing for Johansson leaving perhaps. That is a massive downgrade from what I've seen.

 

Reading the Oatcake forum is funny, they're trying to convince themselves he's a good signing...

Edited 3 hours ago by SNSUN

[saintant]

1 hour ago, hypochondriac said:

Hopefully the last time we ever see him in a Saints shirt and the last time we have to talk about him.

It's an option to buy ergo he'll be back for next season.

[saintant]

1 hour ago, swannymere said:

Bazunu will hav ethe last laugh. Mark my words.

Zero out of one hundred.

[Miltonaggro]

Good luck Gav x

[skintsaint]

17 hours ago, Badger said:

I also had a look n their site, and saw one Stoke fan had consulted a skate mate who said that Bazunu had been ‘world class’ for them.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=603662280654422

Always a good 'un.

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, Osvaldorama said:

 

This one from Adam Blackmore in July aged well   

😂

 

Even Big Adam thought he was fine for the championship 

[Football Special]

10 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=603662280654422

Always a good 'un.

Our scouts didn't watch him did they

Always annoyed me the Skates called him Agent Bazunu every time he made a mistake for us,  probably didn't help him

[Weston Super Saint]

18 minutes ago, Football Special said:

Our scouts didn't watch him did they

Always annoyed me the Skates called him Agent Bazunu every time he made a mistake for us,  probably didn't help him

I suspect it went over his head. Or through his legs. Or low and left.

[OldNick]

The deal hasnt gone through as he dropped the pen during the signing

Edited 2 hours ago by OldNick

[Turkish]

4 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

I suspect it went over his head. Or through his legs. Or low and left.

or straight at him and he dodged it

[SNSUN]

Gavin Bazunu's wrists after an attempt at a save... 😁

[West Dean FC Legend]

Good luck to him - I hope he improves. 

Mind you his wages will make up for any disappointments I'm sure.

[Whitey Grandad]

3 hours ago, trousers said:

Wouldn't a poor defence highlight how good a decent keeper is though, given they naturally have more saves to make than a keeper with a better defence in front of them...?

Probably the opposite.  If you allow any opponent's to run freely into your own penalty area and taked all tge time in the world to pick his spot there will usually only be one outcome. 

[coalman]

2 hours ago, Osvaldorama said:

 

This one from Adam Blackmore in July aged well   

😂

 

At least we're going to dominate the majority of games we play...

[Midfield_General]

9 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Probably the opposite.  If you allow any opponent's to run freely into your own penalty area and taked all tge time in the world to pick his spot there will usually only be one outcome. 

How are you doing at this difficult time Whitey, you OK? 😉

[spyinthesky]

I remember reading a report from the Irish Times before he was injured which reckoned Bazunu had been outstanding for Ireland in a run of games and he was nailed onto be the Irish 'keeper for years bearing in mind his young age.
As with the Adam Blackmore statement this media report did not age well but 'keepers generally improve as they get older.
Only time will tell though.

[chuz]

2 hours ago, influx said:

What has Stoke ever done to us?

Anthony Pulis

[Doctoroncall]

2 hours ago, influx said:

What has Stoke ever done to us?

Brought us pottery. 

[Suhari]

2 hours ago, RedArmy said:

One of the Saints keepers of all time. 
 

 

He was, without doubt, one of the keepers I saw 'play' for Saints.

And I saw Chris Woods.

 

[John Boy Saint]

Slightly revealing of his mindset - we go out and get another keeper on loan who instantly plays in the cup and shows a few kamikaze moments, and yet Baz is looking for the exit straight away. Obviously something might have been said behind closed doors to him, a few of his deficiencies we have all seen not looking like ever being fixed despite possibly endless internal conversations. He obviously wants to keep his chances of going to the world cup alive, especially with matey at Brentford getting more game time, potentially sat on our bench ain't going to help that cause....................just as much of reason to fight.

Just made me think back when Poch was in charge, Fonte was allegedly due to be stepped down to 3rd choice, or worse, behind Maya, unfortunately Maya came back from the Confederation Cup with Japan slightly broken, which gave Jose the opportunity to up his game, which he did, and ultimately keep Yoshida behind him in the queue for ages.

[Midfield_General]

12 minutes ago, Suhari said:

He was, without doubt, one of the keepers I saw 'play' for Saints.

And I saw Chris Woods.

 

Bottom 3 of my lifetime:

Third worst: Woods

Second worst: Andrews

Worst, by a distance: Bazunu

Lowly commended: Gunn, Gazzaniga, Nixon

 

Woods, Andrews, Gunn etc were absolutely useless, but they at least looked like goalkeepers who just weren't very good. 

Baz doesn't even look like a keeper, and never has. So much about the way he moves, his positioning, his body shape etc is wrong. And I say that as someone who played in goal my whole life and got to a reasonable level. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Midfield_General

[Turkish]

16 minutes ago, spyinthesky said:

I remember reading a report from the Irish Times before he was injured which reckoned Bazunu had been outstanding for Ireland in a run of games and he was nailed onto be the Irish 'keeper for years bearing in mind his young age.
As with the Adam Blackmore statement this media report did not age well but 'keepers generally improve as they get older.
Only time will tell though.

They do which makes it so utterly barmy that we expected him to play premier league football at the age of 20 when he'd never played above league one level. Whatever people might think of Baz that will never, ever make sense. 

[S-Clarke]

1 minute ago, Turkish said:

They do which makes it so utterly barmy that we expected him to play premier league football at the age of 20 when he'd never played above league one level. Whatever people might think of Baz that will never, ever make sense. 

It was one of many daft decisions in that summer, Edoze, Mara and Larios being another couple of examples. Lavia was the only success, but he's very injury prone. That's 4 players there who'd only ever played a limited amount of pro games at a low level or came direct from kids football, they were thrust straight into the PL.

At least we managed to add the experience of Aribo and AMN to the group though. 

[Midfield_General]

3 minutes ago, Turkish said:

They do which makes it so utterly barmy that we expected him to play premier league football at the age of 20 when he'd never played above league one level. Whatever people might think of Baz that will never, ever make sense. 

Yeah that was absolute madness, both for him personally and for us as a team. 

I think he's crap but I do feel for him the way he was thrown to the wolves like that, it was very unfair on him. 

[DT]

The club took an absolute age to see what was glaringly obvious to all the fans (who of course know nothing about football compared to Ankerson's huge left field brain, reinventing the game). That Baz was utterly shit and cost us many games. Like the manager position, it is massively underrated by the management in terms of success on the field.

[suewhistle]

2 hours ago, influx said:

What has Stoke ever done to us?

Gave us Captain Smith. 

[Saint NL]

33 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

 Lavia was the only success, but he's very injury prone. That'

 

I read recently that he still hasn't completed a full 90mins for Chelsea. 

In his 2.5 seasons there he's played 30 times. As good as he is, he's never going to have a great career with those numbers.