[Albion] KNOOP AND STERN DEPART

[Bozza]

Jack Stern leaving too...

Goalkeeping coaches Marco Knoop and Jack Stern are leaving Albion this summer, as Fabian Hürzeler reshuffles his backroom team ahead of the 2025/26 season.

This summer the Albion boss will appoint a new replacement goalkeeping coach and recruit a new set-piece specialist.

Fabian said, “On behalf of everyone at the club, I take this opportunity to thank Marco and Jack for their efforts here.

“Marco is returning to Germany and goes with our thanks and best wishes.

“He made a lot of sacrifices to join me in England, and I will always be grateful to him for that.

"Jack and Marco have helped us to achieve a successful season in my first campaign at Brighton and I wish both well for the future."

Technical director David Weir added, “It’s never an easy decision when people leave the club and I echo Fabian’s sentiments, and place on record my thanks to both Jack and Marco.

“Jack has been part of a very successful period for club, working under Graham Potter, Roberto De Zerbi and Fabian.

“We thank both for their service, professionalism and hard work and wish them well for the future.”​

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Surprised and sad to see Stern go.

 

[7:18]

Surprised and sad to see Stern go.

This

 

[Taybha]

Basically Bart just stand still if the other team get a penalty

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I always wonder what a goalkeeping coach does to keep things fresh.

"So on Monday was practice catching the ball and making saves, Tuesday is a light session of ball saving and aerial gatherings, wednesday is goal denial and air to hand transitions, Thursday we start with a little bit of a saving and catching drill and Friday is pizza"

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Never nice to see people lose jobs, but Ryan, Sanchez and Verbruggen have all turned from good to bad (and to an extent Steele last season too), it's no surprise to see a shake up needed. We quite simply need to do better in goal next season.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Never nice to see people lose jobs, but Ryan, Sanchez and Verbruggen have all turned from good to bad (and to an extent Steele last season too), it's no surprise to see a shake up needed. We quite simply need to do better in goal next season.

Really?

 

[singing4seagulls]

I wonder at what age Steel moves into coaching.

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Really?

Ryan ended up having the worst shot saving numbers in the division when he got axed. Verbruggen has unfortunately gone the same way according to the data. Sanchez started making regular blunders and got dropped and subsequently sold. Not sure what you're questioning here.

 

[Weststander]

Really?

Verbruggen worst first choice keeper stats in the PL?

 

[Doc Lynam]

Love to see Jason Steele take it on.

 

[Flounce]

Did they both quit or were they fired? I am guessing fired?

 

[Don Tmatter]

Surprised and sad to see Stern go.

Which of our keepers during his stint had improved?

 

[dazzer6666]

Did they both quit or were they fired? I am guessing fired?

These looks like the key words……… ‘as Fabian Hürzeler reshuffles his backroom team’

 

[Flounce]

Which of our keepers during his stint had improved?

In fairness it’s got to be hard to improve much when the defence has left the keeper exposed to numerous one on ones.

Bart’s positioning for quite a few goals that weren’t one on ones is questionable though. He’s let in quite a few that other top half keepers would probably have saved, especially when they play at the Amex

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Verbruggen worst first choice keeper stats in the PL?

Has he? In what sense? I have no idea but he doesn’t strike me as that bad.

 

[pigmanovich]

In fairness it’s got to be hard to improve much when the defence has left the keeper exposed to numerous one on ones.

You say that but I would bet Flekken faced more shots while putting up a superior save percentage last season.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

They should be an electronic duo like Chase and Status.

Missed their calling in life.

KNOOP AND STERN present Eastern Jam...

 

[dazzer6666]

Has he? In what sense? I have no idea but he doesn’t strike me as that bad.

In the lower percentiles for many key GK stats. Loads of different sources you can look at. Example: https://fbref.com/en/players/cf134113/scout/365_m1/Bart-Verbruggen-Scouting-Report

 

[Flounce]

You say that but I would bet Flekken faced more shots while putting up a superior save percentage last season.

I have no idea but did he face as many one on ones as Bart? We were very open especially earlier in the season. Lack of pace in defence given the way we play now has been a big problem imo,