Jack Butland

[Cormack74]

Fair play to him if he has turned down Chelsea in search of first team opportunities elsewhere. Quite refreshing as I bet he was offered quite a decent wedge of cash

[Pablo]

If he really is available for about £3-4m I think it would be a good investment to buy him now and loan him out. A bit like Chelsea have done with Courtois.

[Chazza]

Sky all over this Stoke bid for Butland.

If he has turned down Chelsea why would he go there unless they loan him back and flog Begovic to Utd in the summer?

[Pablo]

He wants a guaranteed first team spot apparently, so it would indicate Begovic is off.

[Chazza]

Begovic just interviewed in his car saying he won't be going anywhere.

[Bender]

Stoke City have made a £4m bid for Birmingham City and England goalkeeper Jack Butland.
BBC

[Sarb]

Signed for Stoke. Loaned back to Bham. This can be closed now. Begovic probably off to Utd in the Summer. Another GK signing for Fergie...the genius that he is in the transfer market

[Slinky Skills]

Hey mods.

Any chance we can delete this, the Alex Pritchard, Butland, Ince and Williams threads as they're no longer relevant.

Cheers.

[Gibbo]

I believe the Ince one will have legs tbh. Worth keeping open.

[Pablo]

Move the Butland one to General Football (he's a Stoke player now).

Keep the Ince and Williams ones open (we're clearly going to be linked with both of them again in the Summer).

And no one gives a **** about the Pritchard one anyway so leave it to disappear onto page 10.

This Mod malarky is a piece of cake

[Captain Stu]

Oliver Kay on the Times webchat:

@LFCZA
Question to Oli on why teams like #LFC weren't in for #Butland in the transfer window...

@LFCZA
Oli thought #LFC would be in for #butland as he regards #Reina's position as vulnerable at #LFC however...

@LFCZA
Oli imagines that if #reina is to be moved on or challenged, that #LFC's scouts have identified someone better than #butland

[Chazza]

Ter Stegen

[Captain Stu]

Ter Stegen

Rory Smith mentioned Ter Stegen weeks ago, I might even have posted the comments in this thread somewhere.

From what I've seen - he's much better.

To be honest, I wouldn't want us to risk an English keeper in such a continental formation and style of play. So many young English keepers have the promise and then crash and burn.

[Sarb]

Rory Smith mentioned Ter Stegen weeks ago, I might even have posted the comments in this thread somewhere.

From what I've seen - he's much better.

To be honest, I wouldn't want us to risk an English keeper in such a continental formation and style of play. So many young English keepers have the promise and then crash and burn.

Rory did mention Stegen but only as a good keeper out there in Europe, not specifically for us

If I was a betting man, I'd put some money on Michel Vorm coming in. Begovic looks like he is off to Utd. I think we'll go for an older more experienced keeper rather than a young one, unless we've seen someone of huge promise abroad

[Pablo]

Ter Stegen

No, it's Vukasin Poleksic