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Matthew Le God

Matthew Le God

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Just now, Teamsaint1 said:

Interesting that Charlie Taylor has barely had a look in under Juric. I think everybody assumed that he fell out with Martin after the Leicester game, but maybe there is more to it ? 

I'd guess the key issue is not being good enough, which is why he is apparently in discussions with Hull.

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Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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54 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

I guess the lack of rumours around him suggests there is very little interest?

If he's still here in Feb it probably tells you how other coaches see him! We've pretty much said to anyone he's available, I read that we were willing to cover 100% wages as well just to ensure he got a club.

No, they suggest that there’s very little tabloid or agent interest in a reserve goalkeeper going on loan for six months, so there’s probably very little to be gained in making up bullsh*t click bait. He’s only been back in contention for reserve games for a week or two and it’s barely been four days since Juric said we’d loan him out.

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Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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3 hours ago, East Kent Saint said:

Udinese are interested in signing Southampton and Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu, 22, on loan. (Irish Independent - subscription required)

Clubs in Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands also interested. A change of scenery would be beneficial for Gavin but the main priority is getting actual competitive games with something at stake - titles, Europe, avoiding relegation. 

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Saint86

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4 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Clubs in Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands also interested. A change of scenery would be beneficial for Gavin but the main priority is getting actual competitive games with something at stake - titles, Europe, avoiding relegation. 

I for one would be interested to see how he gets on without suicidal defences playing in front of him. He's had two seasons with saints - one being the absolute car crash relegation from the prem (and when he was very inexperienced himself), and the other being Martin's transition and then total adoption of propaganda football.

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S-Clarke

S-Clarke

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Surprised there were no takers in England (actually, maybe not that surprised!).

I think it's the Edozie and Bazunu derby in a few weeks.

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skintsaint

skintsaint

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1 hour ago, S-Clarke said:

Surprised there were no takers in England (actually, maybe not that surprised!).

I thought WBA might have gone after him as they sold their no 1 to Ipswich.

Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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1 hour ago, S-Clarke said:

Surprised there were no takers in England (actually, maybe not that surprised!).

I think it's the Edozie and Bazunu derby in a few weeks.

Edozie must be counting a couple of goals in the bank. Shoot low and with decent-ish power and he’s scored regardless. Could be a heavy defeat for Liege.

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skintsaint

skintsaint

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2 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Edozie must be counting a couple of goals in the bank. Shoot low and with decent-ish power and he’s scored regardless. Could be a heavy defeat for Liege.

Even if he tries the shot will float over the bar....

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Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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Just now, skintsaint said:

Even if he tries the shot will float over the bar....

True, he did score with the odd one eg QPR home but hasn’t quite mastered the art of keeping his head over the ball.

Chez

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On first glance Standard Leige feels like very left field, but then I read that Fergal Harkin was previously player loan manager at Man City and now Director of Football at Leige. I guess that shows just how much personal relationships come into affect with a lot of football transfers. 

Interesting that the Standard Leige goalkeeping coach was done for match fixing when a player at Bari in 2009. 

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Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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2 minutes ago, Chez said:

On first glance Standard Leige feels like very left field, but then I read that Fergal Harkin was previously player loan manager at Man City and now Director of Football at Leige. I guess that shows just how much personal relationships come into affect with a lot of football transfers. 

Interesting that the Standard Leige goalkeeping coach was done for match fixing when a player at Bari in 2009. 

TBF I don’t think even Feargal Sharkey would get Gavin off his line to claim the ball. 

Holmes_and_Watson

Holmes_and_Watson

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3 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

TBF I don’t think even Feargal Sharkey would get Gavin off his line to claim the ball. 

A good heart along with sweeper keeping should see Baz okay. 🙂

Good to see him back fit from injury and hope he develops further on loan.

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Gloucester Saint

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The second goal was the worst blooper, near post, low, not that firmly struck should be around the post or further across at a angle less likely to present a tap-in.

Nearly a calamity coming off his line getting bullied and then glued to it in the second half.

Cheltenham Town have genuinely got two better keepers than him. Whoever sanctioned £14m should be arrested for fraud. But our coaching has made him even worse than the League One keeper he was before. 

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Maggie May

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1 hour ago, Disco Stu said:

Baptism of fire for Bazunu.

 

Liege were defensively shocking though. Makes us look like prime AC Milan (soon to be prime Burnley).

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Galway saint

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You could only really blame him for the second goal, but from the highlights looked like his typical saints performance where he makes a cock up, is bulled when coming off his line ( which is rare) and he doesn't make a notable save. 

After the season we have had then it doesn't seem fair on any of us to have to put him with him again next season.

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Lighthouse

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TBH I’ll be quite happy to see him back next season. He’s a perfectly decent Championship keeper and it’s mildly amusing to watch the same people throwing an absolute tantrum at every goal we concede. The fact that people are piling into him now, playing his first competitive football in nearly a year, behind a clearly crap defence, just shows how much people want to hate him.

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Saint Fan CaM

Saint Fan CaM

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1 hour ago, Lighthouse said:

TBH I’ll be quite happy to see him back next season. He’s a perfectly decent Championship keeper and it’s mildly amusing to watch the same people throwing an absolute tantrum at every goal we concede. The fact that people are piling into him now, playing his first competitive football in nearly a year, behind a clearly crap defence, just shows how much people want to hate him.

Seriously? You don’t need to hate Baz just because he’s quite clearly a liability on a professional football field above L2 level - he can’t help it.

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skintsaint

skintsaint

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1 hour ago, SambaMaverick said:

I thought the second was bad, the third is shocking! Move your feet man, timbeeeerrrrrrrr!!!

Not many keepers saving that 3rd goal from that range. 2nd goal though has to push it out for a corner or hold it, similarities to our goal at Ipswich.

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Sheaf Saint

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13 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

He’s a perfectly decent Championship keeper 

It genuinely baffles me what it is you see in him that nobody else does.

Having watched the majority of his games for us over two seasons, what I see is a weak and indecisive keeper, who has very poor positioning (forever being excused for not saving something due to being 'unsighted'), has no command of his area whatsoever, constantly flaps when he does decide to come out for a cross, and rarely saves anything that isn't straight at him.

Never once have I seen him put in a MOTM performance or make an outstanding save to keep us in a game or secure us a point or more.

How on Earth does that qualify as being a "perfectly decent Championship keeper"?

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malcolm waldron

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I was prepared to give him the Championship season to demonstrate the value for the multi-million outlay, having had a baptism of fire in the Premier League at such a young age.  But having watched all the home games last year, and a fair few aways (and then watched all the long form highlights in the summer), I'm struggling to remember many (any?) games where we only got something out of it due to the keeper - apart from Preston away but I don't mean that type of impact.   And there were a number of games where I thought how on earth did that go in - Rotherham, Watford, Ipswich and Millwall to name four off the top of my head.

Hopefully he can regain fitness and then demonstrate he's improved, or Russell can buy him for £15M when he pitches up at Norwich in the summer.

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Osvaldorama

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16 hours ago, Maggie May said:

Liege were defensively shocking though. Makes us look like prime AC Milan (soon to be prime Burnley).


Bazunu’s defenders always seem to blame the defence for his mistakes. 
 

Yet they fail to recognise that every defence he plays behind gets noticeably worse 

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Doctoroncall

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2 hours ago, malcolm waldron said:

I was prepared to give him the Championship season to demonstrate the value for the multi-million outlay, having had a baptism of fire in the Premier League at such a young age.  But having watched all the home games last year, and a fair few aways (and then watched all the long form highlights in the summer), I'm struggling to remember many (any?) games where we only got something out of it due to the keeper - apart from Preston away but I don't mean that type of impact.   And there were a number of games where I thought how on earth did that go in - Rotherham, Watford, Ipswich and Millwall to name four off the top of my head.

Hopefully he can regain fitness and then demonstrate he's improved, or Russell can buy him for £15M when he pitches up at Norwich in the summer.

I hope Russell gets a championship gig soon so he can come in for his players. Not sure if anyone else would take them. 

Dark Munster

Dark Munster

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14 hours ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Meh. The highlights didn't show any of his sweeper keeper skills, or his distribution. Needed to parry that 2nd wide, but good to see him back.

I’m also glad to see him back playing. At another club, permanently hopefully. 

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Galway saint

Galway saint

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4 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

It genuinely baffles me what it is you see in him that nobody else does.

Having watched the majority of his games for us over two seasons, what I see is a weak and indecisive keeper, who has very poor positioning (forever being excused for not saving something due to being 'unsighted'), has no command of his area whatsoever, constantly flaps when he does decide to come out for a cross, and rarely saves anything that isn't straight at him.

Never once have I seen him put in a MOTM performance or make an outstanding save to keep us in a game or secure us a point or more.

How on Earth does that qualify as being a "perfectly decent Championship keeper"?

He's obviously a poor keeper at this level,  but he did make a decent save against WBA away last season that was important at the time. Apart from the Preston game that's has already been referenced, I can't recall another. 
 

As someone said the best chance of getting rid is for RM to get a championship club and you'd think he'd be keen to take Bazanu and hopefully some of the other crap we have accumulated.

 

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Wade Garrett

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On 13/02/2025 at 23:14, Lighthouse said:

TBH I’ll be quite happy to see him back next season. He’s a perfectly decent Championship keeper and it’s mildly amusing to watch the same people throwing an absolute tantrum at every goal we concede. The fact that people are piling into him now, playing his first competitive football in nearly a year, behind a clearly crap defence, just shows how much people want to hate him.

You know fuck all mush.

I find it incredible that Bazunu earns a fill-time wage from football.  I’ve seen better shot-stoppers in the Wessex League.

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