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Take stats out of it and watch with your eyes - you can see without stats that he is not a goalkeeper. He has the presence of a nervous pigeon, the goal dwarfs him, and any shot on target goes in as his wrists are weak. So he cannot command the area, he can't get across the goal as he's not a big enough presence, his positioning on the line is poor and often ill-judged, and he cannot save strong shots because his wrists are too weak. None of that equals a goalkeeper. When you combine what you see with your eyes with stats, it paints a very clear picture.

I'm pleased we're looking at a goalkeeper, but I can't say I know a great deal about this guy as he doesn't seem to ever play. You have to have something about you to be backup at Bayern though, you'd have to say - and that immediately puts him many levels ahead of Bazunu. All I want is a goalkeeper who makes saves, not asking for anything revolutionary, just someone who makes saves. I hope it's not a foreign version of George Long, as that would be utterly pointless.

Can you post a summary?

So this is what he's doing these days

Just got off the train at central. Quite easy to spot Millwall fans...few police at the station and and about 10 millwall fans got off. Police looked a bit dissapointed 😅

Could this be a 3-way deal - Hamburg get Downs for reduced cost in exchange for releasing the GK from his loan and Saints picking up the tab for any costs to cancel it early?

No source. Just a feeling derived from life under SR.

Just read this whole thread. I don’t normally bother. Basically all negativity and a lot of quite lunatic simplistic theories. so I might as well throw in an alternative view. I think Tonda is learning but he needs some back up. Being a manager in apparently one of the biggest leagues in football with a rebuilt squad with is going to be hard work. again I sure I read we have one of the smallest support staff out of all the main teams in this league. Fans need to step back and stop looking for scapegoats". The game generally is becoming like American football with specialist coaching staff, set pieces are becoming important it really is a far more complicated game from when I started following Saints Combination League with Mick Channon still in the reserves. Sports Republic have financially backed well ( yeah I know lots of poor decisions but not all of them ) they aren’t going anywhere. Unless it was a massive takeover the last thing we need is disruption. fucks sake look at some teams that have had “dream” takeovers. Man United fans were saying instant Champion League. Wrexham ( who I especially despise) wonder set up is starting to collapse. Lots of similar examples. 100% SR want Premier League football but do we really want promotion this season ? Really ? OK we might get all misty eyed over Wembley , great days out in London but that was a couple of nice days which inevitably led to one fk of a miserable season. That season damaged the club. yes this with hindsight whatever. I know Hull fans are dreaming of promotion they are ready for it. Wolves potentially heading for the worst record in the The Premier League🤔 I want the whole team to strive for promotion and that will make us stronger but another season in the Championship isn’t going to hurt us. The club isn’t a mess we aren’t a laughing stock. One thing reminded me of that. Gavin Bazuna and Cameron Archer being interviewed after the last match many commentators were saying Bazunu was man of the match he spoke well Archer clearly relieved he had finally scored. They were backing each other it was good. many will want to see that as player delusion I saw that as team cohesion. We are going to have bad runs ( is our home form a bad run ? No) and good runs ,if at the end of the season we have improved ,finish in a decent league place that’s good enough for me. We beat Leeds in the playoffs which team is in a better position to us. and yeah I could have done a short post criticising Baz or Stephens for “likes” but WTF see you at St Mary’s.

Source ??

Yeah agreed. I think it’s a shame for Baz but it’s just not working. On Total Saints Glen made the point he would take almost any other championship keeper over ours and it’s hard to disagree. Hopefully Peretz can command the box reasonably well.

Why are we bringing in another keeper when Baz is “fine” for this league?

The Scottish do have a good track record in management

We are not exactly great at pressing. How often do we turn over possession high up the pitch?

With 2 CBs there is less opportunity for any single CB to abdicate responsibilty to another for marking an opponent or challenging for a header.

Because his single tactic has been sussed out..

And you can set your watch by which posters it will be - ‘I miss Wussell’

I’ve got this vision now of an older woman clad in black dictating the transfer activity.

You can’t deny that we’ve regressed from playing quick counter attacking football to slow ponderous safe RussBall in the space of a few weeks.

Looks good on YouTube. Didn’t concede once. No clips of dealing with a long throw though

Hamburg are in higher quality league than we are

Won't happen. Guarantee it.

For balance, the Hamburg #1 has played over 150 games for them and has seemingly been very good this season so not easy to remove him as a loan player. The other option was seemingly Patterson who has also not been deemed good enough by a top flight team - you won't find many starting keepers being loaned out in a Jan window. Lack of minutes is the concern rather than not becoming no1 at Hamburg - lets see what he has to offer before making sweeping judgements.

Fair comment. It’s a position that would be virtually impossible not to improve.

Fantastic. As sharp-witted as a modern day Eric Morecambe. Happy New Year my friend.

It would be a very Sport Republic thing to get a new keeper in, a worse keeper than Bazunu so that we can suddenly hail the Irishman as a hero 😂