Est.1865
Destination Europe
I personally think Johnstone is a better keeper than Henderson.
Sam Johnstone
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Statto
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Motty.
Youth Team
Makes sense. We need 3 good goalkeepers at the club. Otherwise it's one injury away from no cover and two injuries away from disaster.
Bob Fossil
Nottingham's dirty secret
Can't see it myself.
Miguel hasn't come to be 3rd choice behind Sels & Johnstone.
Unless we're getting rid of both Turner AND Sels. Which I doubt.
Miguel hasn't come to be 3rd choice behind Sels & Johnstone.
Unless we're getting rid of both Turner AND Sels. Which I doubt.
Bob Fossil
Nottingham's dirty secret
Sels
Miguel
Turner
We won't get silly money for Turner so spunking £20m on Johnstone is daft. Even if we do get rid of Turner I think a cheaper option would be preferable.
Cloughie1975
Stuart Pearce
Agreed-assuming Miguel is at the required standard of course.
Est.1865
Destination Europe
I reckon Sels end up being our backup keeper. Then sold on for a decent profit.
Robertson
Grenville Morris
Who knows any more?
But I take your general point.
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I don’t think Johnstone is a significant upgrade on Sels and having two keepers ‘fighting’ for the jersey rarely works.
Sels did well. He’s our number one, back him.
Turner is OK as cover and Miguel is coming in and might shove him down to third choice.
There’s also something about bringing Sels him, he essentially rescuing our season and then us dumping him in the reserves 6 months after he arrived. If we are doing that it needs to be a proper upgrade
Sels did well. He’s our number one, back him.
Turner is OK as cover and Miguel is coming in and might shove him down to third choice.
There’s also something about bringing Sels him, he essentially rescuing our season and then us dumping him in the reserves 6 months after he arrived. If we are doing that it needs to be a proper upgrade
Bob Fossil
Nottingham's dirty secret
Sels & Miguel are more than enough. I have a strong feeling Miguel will be our number one by Xmas & a legend in the making by May.
I'm not sure many teams have 3 REAL quality keepers- even in the PL.
And if we do sell Turner & need a 3rd........don't be ****in daft & spend £20m on him.....
I'm not sure many teams have 3 REAL quality keepers- even in the PL.
And if we do sell Turner & need a 3rd........don't be ****in daft & spend £20m on him.....
Est.1865
Destination Europe
£12m-£15m would be closer to the value IMO.
Probably a better keeper than Sels but spending 15m on a keeper at this point with so many obviously more pressing issues would be daft for such a nominal gain.
I don’t get the drum beat for spending 15m on Johnstone or 30m on Kelleher neither of which I don’t think have really shown a deal more than Sels who cost 3m or whatever it was. Sels might not be the glam signing but he is more than capable at this level and for what we need
Listen 'ere young man
John Robertson
Sort out the set pieces, stop dropping up to 30 points a season from winning positions through better organisation and drop the big bucks on a quality forward instead.
Long Rodney
First Team Squad
I doubt this guy really fits the profile of the type of player we’re interested in now. 15m (if it is that) on a 31yo keeper who doesn’t even start would be a bit daft, especially in this era.
Est.1865
Destination Europe
I actually think Sels has been really good too. He passes the eye test in terms of what we need.
However, what is odd is that statistically he graded out no better than Turner. Didn’t make the major mistake's as frequently. granted.
So maybe we do keep Sels. We will soon find out how much Nuno rates our GK situation.
This is a prime example of why stats aren’t everything.
No stat can really explain the sheer terror in Turner’s eyes nor the waft of shit from his pants whenever he was passed the ball to feet
Eddie Yates
Ian Bowyer
Turner is not ok as cover, he's f***ing hopeless at pretty much every aspect of goal keeping.
Haych
John Robertson
We need somebody to boost the attackers confidence in training when they’re scoring from all over the place.
Statto
Free Kick Specialist
He cost 10m apparently so he's way too expensive if nothing else. Who knows what his wage bill is.
If Sels is staying first choice and the Brazilian lad is coming in as back up we might just be able to get away with selling Turner as well and having Aaron Bott as third. He doesn't take up a squad place as he's too young.
We don't need Johnstone at all.
Est.1865
Destination Europe
Is quite like to see the Brazilian keeper prove himself before we think he’s a #2 PL standard keeper.
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
That we are talking about 19 year old Aaron Bott as third choice suggests we do need another keeper, regardless of whether that's Johnstone.
Statto
Free Kick Specialist
I see the argument here but how many times does the effective third choice keeper get to play? It would need the first and second choices to be injured and/or suspended.
Keepers don't get injured or sent off that often really so if this was a route we did go down I don't think Bott would get much more than the odd game sat on the bench.
Though it'd be very Forest for there to be a spell where Sels broke something and then Miguel got sent off for shithousing and then we'd be playing the third choice...
The two obvious benefits are:
- Bott's age means we wouldn't need to register him to use him so we could give that place to another outfielder
- we could spend the money getting in a 3rd choice on other areas of the squad
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
Yeah, based on what I have seen he won't be number 2 for very long if not at all.