QuoteThink it's a good move for him. They seem very patient with new signings. Both Collins and Flekken had ropey starts and they continued to play them.Originally Posted by seanfhear
didn't he only have 12 months left on his contract? I think its a decent price with that in mind.
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
Think it's a good move for him. They seem very patient with new signings. Both Collins and Flekken had ropey starts and they continued to play them.
Yes ~ ~ And every player can do with some lucky breaks when joining a new club.
Dont be letting logic get in the way of a good conspiracy theory, you know better than that !!
Its really not that complicated!!!
I kinda think both are true. The fee was surprisingly low. That was in part reflected by the fact he had a year left on his deal. Saying that, given the number of teams allegedly interested in him, I certainly would have expected the fee to rise. Liverpool got the same initial fee for Danny Ward about 5 years ago who also had a year left on his deal.
Liverpool for example paid £35m (raising to £40m) for Alex Oxlade Chamberlain 8 years ago with 10 months left on his contract. Two summers ago, United paid £55m for Mount (rising to £60m) with a year left on his contract.
Honestly if you’d have asked me to guess the fee in advance, I’d have said probably £20-25m with either a sell on clause or another £5-10m in add ons. (There were rumours of Chelsea paying £40m which always felt very high).
Chelsea would probably by me, or any foot.ie poster for around £20 million !
Easy to forget he's only ever played 25 league games in his career. I think they done well to get that sort of fee for a still largely inexperienced goalkeeper given he had one year left on his contract and isn't exactly a kid anymore.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Shouldn't matter what the fee is anyway. It's how he plays in the coming season that matters. (I'm assuming he's going straight in as first choice of course)
If hes not guaranteed to be 1st choice going into the start of the season he might as well just pack up his gloves
Its really not that complicated!!!
Oh completely agree (within the bounds of acceptable hyperbole) - but don't want to be accused of jinxing things!
“World Cup qualification trump card.”
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/a...s/c5y6z613m49o
Kelleher is an injury doubt for Brentford's Premier League opener this weekend.
Starts anyway, but the first shot he faces goes in. 1-0 Forest after 9 minutes.
Very early days of course. But still a feeling this one could be a pointer to how Brentford do this season with the Farke/Andrews change.
Had a look at the goals and there was little he could do for any of them. From the stats he made a couple of saves as well. Hopefully won't dent his confidence too much. Forest are a very good team so I wouldn't read too much into today although Andrews is going to be on the back foot from the get go unfortunately
The joys of playing for a team whose aim is just survival. No one really cares Unlike when he got his small enough numbers of games where the whole football world is watching. 50 games a season where really your side is just an also ran or 15 games a season for a genuine contender like Liverpool ?
That's fine if you're getting 15-20 games - but a lot of those seasons he didn't, last season was an outlier. Was it two or three seasons ago that he made his season debut in the league on the final day?
I thought he was maybe a step out of position for one of the goals today (the first I think) - he was quite near his left hand post and the ball went in quite centrally. Collins was done by a brilliant through ball for the third.
Yeah, could have been more centrally positioned for the first, maybe could have done more to push Wood wide for the third. Had a few loose kicks and flapped a bit on crosses. Tough season ahead. Thought Collins had a poor game, feels like his performance level drops with the captaincy distraction.
In fairness, he played 20 games last season and 26 the season before. Overall he was very unlucky regarding timing injuries. He missed games he would have played due to injury. If I remember correctly there were 7 games he would have played where the third choice keeper played and a handful where Alisson came back from injury early cause he picked up a knock. Meanwhile he missed less games when he would have been on the bench, even though he spent more time on the bench than starting. He also would have played 9 games if it weren't for Covid as a third choice. Both Alisson and Adrian had 3 month injuries which would have ruled them out for the rest of the season. Finally, the season before he became first choice was another where the second keeper was used a lot (18 games) and the start of the next season (5 of first 8 games before Kelleher took his place).
Regarding yesterday - he was unlucky with the Wood goal. If you look back at it, he gets there he's gonna palm it away and Wood accidentally trods on the ball with the outside of his left boot as he shifts it across from right to left. That causes the ball to bounce in the air over Kelleher's arm - but Kelleher does everything right. Overall though, confidence wise, I'd much rather Kelleher playing 20+ games a season at Liverpool which he done since he became Ireland No.1 than a possibly humbling season at Brentford.
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