Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Tom Heaton,, Butland, Pickford have all advanced their careers by choosing to play for teams in the bottom half of the Prem.
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Stockdale to West Ham rumour
- Thread starter bhanutz
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Tom Heaton,, Butland, Pickford have all advanced their careers by choosing to play for teams in the bottom half of the Prem.
Then you are mental*
*unless you meant we could sign a random midfielder and play them in goal?
BBassic
I changed this.
- Jul 28, 2011
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I've often thought about doing something like that in Football Manager. Finding a 16 year old with good technical stats and retraining him as a goalkeeper.
Maybe "fairly easy" was understating it somewhat. The point I was trying to make was that there are keepers out there as good as Stockdale in terms of shot stopping and distribution, but none who are so good at both aspects
- Jan 3, 2012
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To be fair, I think that is a sweeping generalisation. Yes, some will go for the ££££s and nothing else matters, but not everyone. I don't think Stockdale would go just anywhere. If he was wanted by one of the really big clubs and have the opportunity for, say, European Football, possibly, but not West Ham.
the right footed denilson
New member
Absolutely this.
Personally i feel that no matter who else we sign, if we can start most games with those four we should have enough to stay up.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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If there is one area that we are likely to be OK I reckon it will be in defence. What makes you think we will have a leaky one? Quick classy young strikers is where we always fail spectacularly, although we seem to be pretty good at finding wingers these days.
LowKarate
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You can replace a keeper. You can't easily replace a motivational and team-bonding character like Stockdale.
For that reason we should do everything possible to keep him (and Stephens).
It would be madness not to want to start next season with all of the major players who have delivered this season.
For that reason we should do everything possible to keep him (and Stephens).
It would be madness not to want to start next season with all of the major players who have delivered this season.
My point, poorly put, was that young keepers would favour playing for teams that they MAY perceive will struggle. However good our defence is we are going to be facing teams that will create more chances than us and a keeper would have more opportunity to show his attributes than playing for Chelsea, City or Utd, I'd guess?