Gavin Bazunu

[DrSuess1979]

4 hours ago, tttdcs said:

I have never forgot this goalkeeping performance, worst in my memory watching Saints 2 - 6 Spurs

Also this one ....

 

I caddied for BG during a Peter Allias pro am at ferndown GC.

He was paired up with Harry Redknapp, on the 8th tee harry dropped some notes on the floor and jokingly said "Grob you've dropped your bribe money"

He laughed and picked it up and winked at Harry.

  

Edited January 13 by DrSuess1979

[Chez]

Why are Stoke signing him? Is their first choice keeper injured?

[Weston Super Saint]

1 minute ago, Chez said:

Why are Stoke signing him? Is their first choice keeper injured?

Yes.

But what a confidence boost for their second choice keeper!!  Being gazumped by the ghost!

[spyinthesky]

10 hours ago, DrSuess1979 said:

I caddied for BG during a Peter Allias pro am at ferndown GC.

He was paired up with Harry Redknapp, on the 8th tee harry dropped some notes on the floor and jokingly said "Grob you've dropped your bribe money"

He laughed and picked it up and winked at Harry.

  

I wish I hadnt clicked onto the link.
Opened the memory scars from that game after we should really have won the game at WHL

[Saint Fan CaM]

I’ve a nasty feeling we’ll see the standard failure from SR - lose a player that’s been hung out to dry and replace them with someone worse. That’s how much I trust SR to get any decision right. Peretz will be watched carefully in terms of him actually looking like a keeper.

Edited January 14 by Saint Fan CaM

[Charlie Wayman]

41 minutes ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

I’ve a nasty feeling we’ll see the standard failure from SR - lose a player that’s been hung out to dry and replace them with someone worse. That’s how much I trust SR to get any decision right. Peretz will be watched carefully in terms of him actually looking like a keeper.

What would have been your reaction if they had given Baz a new 4 year contract and signed nobody. 

[BotleySaint]

57 minutes ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

I’ve a nasty feeling we’ll see the standard failure from SR - lose a player that’s been hung out to dry and replace them with someone worse. That’s how much I trust SR to get any decision right. Peretz will be watched carefully in terms of him actually looking like a keeper.

Yeah, there is something just typical about SR to get a keeper in who has barely played for years and is very much an unknown entity.

Rather than getting in someone who has a track record showing even a basic level of competency.

I mean, why wasn't he getting games at Hamburg? Oh dear.. here we go again.

[Chez]

1 hour ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

I’ve a nasty feeling we’ll see the standard failure from SR - lose a player that’s been hung out to dry and replace them with someone worse. That’s how much I trust SR to get any decision right. Peretz will be watched carefully in terms of him actually looking like a keeper.

To be fair, SR got it right when they sent Baz out on loan and brought in Ramsdale. Not sure I am going to be equally impressed by Peretz. 

[badgerx16]

5 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Yes.

But what a confidence boost for their second choice keeper!!  Being gazumped by the ghost!

Surely that is "Bazumped" ?

[Chez]

6 minutes ago, BotleySaint said:

Yeah, there is something just typical about SR to get a keeper in who has barely played for years and is very much an unknown entity.

Rather than getting in someone who has a track record showing even a basic level of competency.

I mean, why wasn't he getting games at Hamburg? Oh dear.. here we go again.

They (Hamberg) have Daniel Fernandes, who has been their number 1 for quite a while. I would guess Peretz was signed to give him more competition/back up, but Fernandes continued to play well, so there was no reason to drop him and thus Peretz couldn't get a game.

[Saint Fan CaM]

7 hours ago, Charlie Wayman said:

What would have been your reaction if they had given Baz a new 4 year contract and signed nobody. 

Obviously disappointed, however that’s not what has happened is it? They’ve gone for a keeper who may be equally poor or worse - the fact is SR’s past performance time and again has been to dilute the quality of the squad, with the notable exception of Scienza, Fellows and Jander (which has been undermined by duds remaining in place). 4 seasons now without a decent CF and millions spent also taints SR and indicates how terrible they are at squad building.

 

7 hours ago, Chez said:

To be fair, SR got it right when they sent Baz out on loan and brought in Ramsdale. Not sure I am going to be equally impressed by Peretz. 

Yes Ramsdale was a good move albeit too late, but of course that still didn’t fully address the core issues at play in the squad.

[Lord Duckhunter]

32 minutes ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

They’ve gone for a keeper who may be equally poor or worse

Impossible 

[Weston Super Saint]

2 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Impossible 

Ah.. you must have missed the post about Gavin having a brother who is also a keeper...

[Holmes_and_Watson]

31 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Ah.. you must have missed the post about Gavin having a brother who is also a keeper...

I wonder if the brother was always a keeper.

If not, at some point Baz switched from outfield, for his brother's position, and made premier league starts out of it. 

[saint michael]

Will be interesting to see how Baz does with a decent defence in front of him and how Peretz will perform with a shit defence in front of him. The good thing is we will very soon have a confirmation of what we we think 

[HKsaint]

29 minutes ago, saint michael said:

Will be interesting to see how Baz does with a decent defence in front of him and how Peretz will perform with a shit defence in front of him. The good thing is we will very soon have a confirmation of what we we think 

You will see a decent defence becomes a shit defence and a shit defence becomes a very decent one. 

[bugenhagen]

48 minutes ago, saint michael said:

Will be interesting to see how Baz does with a decent defence in front of him and how Peretz will perform with a shit defence in front of him. The good thing is we will very soon have a confirmation of what we we think 

It will indeed be a confirmation of what we are already thinking. The people who made excuses for Baz will continue making excuses for him, and the people who didn't rate him, will still not rate him.

[Saint Fan CaM]

3 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Impossible 

We’ll soon see, but my money is on Peretz being no better than Baz, even as flawed as he is. SR don’t do squad building and strengthening - they do squad diluting and weakening…it’s in their DNA to break things.

[Weston Super Saint]

I'm looking forward to teams playing Stoke and finding their shooting boots, continuing the tradition of Baz facing absolute worldies week in week out.

[Charlie Wayman]

2 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

I'm looking forward to teams playing Stoke and finding their shooting boots, continuing the tradition of Baz facing absolute worldies week in week out.

He's gone, get over it, time to chnge the narrative.

[Charlie Wayman]

9 hours ago, bugenhagen said:

It will indeed be a confirmation of what we are already thinking. The people who made excuses for Baz will continue making excuses for him, and the people who didn't rate him, will still not rate him.

He's gone, get over it, time to chnge the narrative.

[tdmickey3]

20 minutes ago, Charlie Wayman said:

He's gone, get over it, time to chnge the narrative.

 

19 minutes ago, Charlie Wayman said:

He's gone, get over it, time to chnge the narrative.

He`s gone, get over it

[LiberalCommunist]

This move is intriguing. Will be paying close attention, even after people tell me to move on. 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

11 hours ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

We’ll soon see, but my money is on Peretz being no better than Baz, even as flawed as he is. SR don’t do squad building and strengthening - they do squad diluting and weakening…it’s in their DNA to break things.

If something is broken, consider breaking it some more.

Edited January 15 by Stripey McStripe Shirt

[so22saint]

53 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

If something is broken, consider breaking it some more.

I'm looking forward to Rasmus reinventing us as the UK's first NFL franchise

[Patrick Bateman]

Just now, so22saint said:

I'm looking forward to Rasmus reinventing us as the UK's first NFL franchise

And then the first team ever to be relegated from the NFL where relegations don't happen ... break it.

[Zorba]

Keeping a clean sheet for Stoke 😂

[Osvaldorama]

1 hour ago, Zorba said:

Keeping a clean sheet for Stoke 😂

Hasn’t faced any shots though. Benefits of having a defence and midfield that aren’t league two standard. 

Edited Saturday at 17:27 by Osvaldorama

[USaintA]

Good clean sheet for Bazunu today. Always rated him. Great keeper.

[Gloucester Saint]

Good for him. Genuinely. Saints gain nothing if he has another Liege style nightmare so everyone wins if he gets a run of starts and clean sheets. 

[Harry_SFC]

1 minute ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Good for him. Genuinely. Saints gain nothing if he has another Liege style nightmare so everyone wins if he gets a run of starts and clean sheets. 

Agreed. It'll be good for his confidence, he seems like a good guy, just not very good at goalkeeping. Just shows though what a pathetic defence we have as well though.

Edited Saturday at 17:09 by Harry_SFC

[The Kraken]

It’s only qpr but Stoke didn’t allow a shot on target until injury time. Thats the type of defence Baz needs to play behind.

[saintant]

1 hour ago, Zorba said:

Keeping a clean sheet for Stoke 😂

One shot on target straight at him wasn't it 🙂

[Gloucester Saint]

11 minutes ago, The Kraken said:

It’s only qpr but Stoke didn’t allow a shot on target until injury time. Thats the type of defence Baz needs to play behind.

Robins also would never allow THB, Wood, Stephens and Manning to dictate how they wanted to play. 

[VectisSaint]

12 minutes ago, The Kraken said:

It’s only qpr but Stoke didn’t allow a shot on target until injury time. Thats the type of defence Baz needs to play behind.

Stats I see show 2 on target, 2 saved.

[saintant]

2 minutes ago, VectisSaint said:

Stats I see show 2 on target, 2 saved.

Yeah, both straight at him unless he was absent from the centre of the goal 🙂

[Willo of Whiteley]

Sign him up 😂

Edited Saturday at 17:35 by Willo of Whiteley

[Badger]

9 minutes ago, VectisSaint said:

Stats I see show 2 on target, 2 saved.

Well worth £8m of Stoke’s money at the end of the season. Perhaps we can persuade them to do the deal now before Premier League vultures start to hovver. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Well done Baz!

[Junkyard Dog]

On 14/01/2026 at 23:43, HKsaint said:

You will see a decent defence becomes a shit defence and a shit defence becomes a very decent one. 

Diddent see either of those today

[Zorba]

Is he worse than Gazzaniga though?

[The Kraken]

24 minutes ago, VectisSaint said:

Stats I see show 2 on target, 2 saved.

Ok, must have both been in injury time, I checked just before the 90 were up and it was zero at that point.

[The Kraken]

14 minutes ago, Badger said:

Well worth £8m of Stoke’s money at the end of the season. Perhaps we can persuade them to do the deal now before Premier League vultures start to hovver. 

I had a quick skim of their forum, they largely reckon have zero chance of affording him unless they get promoted. It also relies on what their injured keeper does when he gets back, they seem to really rate him but think he might be destined for a higher level one way or the other.

[West Dean FC Legend]

Bazuna played reasonable games for us and kept clean sheets too - it does not make him a world beater or even a great goalie.

I mean by this metric that means Pat Jennings is an awful goalie because he let in 8 goals for Tottenham Hotspur in one game.

[coalman]

I guess we're going to all need to come to terms with the ugly reality that Bazunu is too good for Saints and was always going to move on to a more successful club.

This is on you, Sport Republic.

Edited 13 hours ago by coalman

[Holmes_and_Watson]

I hope he does well. Should Stoke buy him, we'll have made an accounting profit. All parties get a fresh start, and can try and forget how much it's actually cost us.

[St Louis]

On 17/01/2026 at 17:26, Gloucester Saint said:

Robins also would never allow THB, Wood, Stephens and Manning to dictate how they wanted to play. 

I love these kind of made up assumptions.
You know this is happening at Saints, how exactly?

[Gloucester Saint]

5 minutes ago, St Louis said:

I love these kind of made up assumptions.
You know this is happening at Saints, how exactly?

My own eyes and ears. Either that, or the manager has the intellect of a 4 year old to keep doing exactly the same thing that hasn’t worked for two months and only gained barely a dozen league wins in 18 months under the previous idiots SR have installed. That’s pathetic.

Also see Still’s comments about not really doing things how he’d want to. Pretty clear something went on behind the scenes when he dropped Bazunu, Stephens and others. He didn’t help himself either not playing Fellows and the level of disorganisation at Hull, Blackburn to mention a few. 

But it’s pretty clear that many of that core undermined Juric as well when he tried to stop Martinball. Downes on strike for example.

I don’t need Nathan Wood telling me to fuck off or sworn statement from Ryan Manning from his weekly diary. There’s things are in front of us every week (twice a week in this league).

 

[St Louis]

15 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

My own eyes and ears. Either that, or the manager has the intellect of a 4 year old to keep doing exactly the same thing that hasn’t worked for two months and only gained barely a dozen league wins in 18 months under the previous idiots SR have installed. That’s pathetic.

Also see Still’s comments about not really doing things how he’d want to. Pretty clear something went on behind the scenes when he dropped Bazunu, Stephens and others. He didn’t help himself either not playing Fellows and the level of disorganisation at Hull, Blackburn to mention a few. 

But it’s pretty clear that many of that core undermined Juric as well when he tried to stop Martinball. Downes on strike for example.

I don’t need Nathan Wood telling me to fuck off or sworn statement from Ryan Manning from his weekly diary. There’s things are in front of us every week (twice a week in this league).

 

I'm not trying to dig you out BTW, just wondering how people know these kind of behind the scenes things, and be so categoric that its happening and specifically by whom?
I dont disagree we have plenty of d*ckheads in the squad, who dont like criticism (Wood) or being dropped or not being allowed to leave (Downes) and dont look like they care. I also don't disagree that its been pathetic and disorganised for far too long. And Yes there are things in front of our eyes that confirm we look poor every week and have a lack of leadership on and off the pitch.
But your point was that 'THB, Wood, Stephens and Manning dictate how they want to play', thats what I was picking up on, as our 'own eyes/ears dont tell us that' at all. I'd imagine (but wouldn't know for sure) that the style and tactics come mainly from SR and then some input from their 'Yes Man' head coach.
I'd also imagine that the players hate this current system and getting beat every week and would love that to change. I genuinely dont understand why you think those 4 players are dictating things. Surely if he's that influential, then Captain Jack for example would dictate that he quite fancies the occasional game!?

[Saint NL]

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/loris-karius-interview-liverpool-schalke-b2899623.html?

 

Interesting article about ex-Liverpool keeper Loris Karius who somehow made a decent comeback after an awful time.

Maybe Bazunu can do something similar.