Aaron Ramsdale

[leesaint88]

3 minutes ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

The Newcastle rumour seems to be sticking a bit, but I can’t see him going until the summer. There’s been no news coming out of the club about Bazunu for months now and I’m wondering if the injury and/or recovery is much worse than originally expected. What does that leave us with? McCarthy - as no.1 what does it matter…we’re dead anyway. But what about a decent no.2 / 3?

I'm pretty sure the club had an image of Baz in his training kit recently? Suggesting he's at least working on his fitness. Lumley is out of contract in the summer? McCarthy is just going through the motions at the club. To be honest, I'm never glass half empty but I get the feeling we're going to drop like a stone next season in the Championship. I think the amount of players leaving especially in key departments I just can't see us replacing in time.

[Nordic Saint]

16 minutes ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

Easily the best keeper we have had since niemi,. Our best player imo .. it’s a painful thought that it’s likely we are gonna have to suffer bazunu again next season 

Not only, Bazunu, but also the "FFS, is he still here?" McCarthy, will still be here. It's a depressing thought, isn't it?  Newcastle want Ramsdale. At least it proves what a good goalkeeper we signed, even if we didn't know that already. I agree with you, he's the best player we've got. He seems like a great bloke too. I feel sorry for him, being stuck in such a terrible team. 

[sadoldgit]

3 hours ago, Saint Scott said:

It wasn't completely pointless, signing a top 6 quality goalkeeper was a real coup for us. The bigger issue was we neglected to upgrade our defenders from last season and RM's suicidal style destroyed our season before the 1st January

The club were constantly slagged off for not signing a quality keeper then when they finally do, the signing is pointless apparently! Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

[hypochondriac]

5 hours ago, Saint Scott said:

It wasn't completely pointless, signing a top 6 quality goalkeeper was a real coup for us. The bigger issue was we neglected to upgrade our defenders from last season and RM's suicidal style destroyed our season before the 1st January

It was pointless in hindsight because we made very few other signings of Premier league quality so it was a waste of time. 

[hypochondriac]

2 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

The club were constantly slagged off for not signing a quality keeper then when they finally do, the signing is pointless apparently! Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

It's not the signing of Ramsdale that made it pointless. It was not competing in virtually every other area of the pitch that made it so. 

[Baird of the land]

Resource wise i don't think Ramsdale was a great signing. the whole goalkeeping situation was completely botched this summer so that we ended up splurging a massive fee on him at the deadline as well as beeing stuck with mccarthy for the future. Would be ideal if Newcastle are desperate enough that we get that full fee back this wondow rather than settling for less in the summer.

[saintant]

1 hour ago, Baird of the land said:

Resource wise i don't think Ramsdale was a great signing. the whole goalkeeping situation was completely botched this summer so that we ended up splurging a massive fee on him at the deadline as well as beeing stuck with mccarthy for the future. Would be ideal if Newcastle are desperate enough that we get that full fee back this wondow rather than settling for less in the summer.

Like everything else SR touches the goalkeeping situation has been a disaster.

[pimpin4rizeal]

5 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

It's not the signing of Ramsdale that made it pointless. It was not competing in virtually every other area of the pitch that made it so. 

Absolutely this. If every signing was as good in their positions as ramsdale we would have a hell of a side