Originally Posted by
mypost
This is senior football. Mistakes are costly, and when goalkeepers make them, they get punished.
Granted I don't see much of his club games,but whenever I have, he's made the kind of errors you'd be annoyed with if they happened in the Phoenix Park, let alone Portsmouth. So far, he's conceded goals against Andorra Qatar, Luxembourg and Azerbaijan, and therefore he has to be criticised for at least some of why that happened. His age is really no defence. If he's good enough to hold the shirt, he's also old enough to be questioned. It took 6 full games for him to keep a clean sheet. Results matter at the highest level.
It's not Kelleher's fault, he had little to do against Qatar. Ideally you want your keeper to keep a clean sheet with little or nothing to do, rather than have to try and save everything and the kitchen sink. Whenever he has played for us, he's conceded no goals and done nothing wrong. That should not be seen as a negative.
I still stand by my view that when you have a player at Liverpool and a player from Portsmouth available, any international manager would go with the one at the better club at a higher level of football.