Alisson Becker

[maxwellbaxter]

Doesn’t Klopp really rate him though?

[frank the tank]

With all the **** he's taken, I think we should give John Achterberg a little credit too....he must be doing something right

Or else he was so ****e that we had to just go out and splash a world record for a goalie

[baitman]

With all the **** he's taken, I think we should give John Achterberg a little credit too....he must be doing something right

Or maybe hes doing some building work at kirkby

The meek 'scared of their own shadow' body language on the pitch from mig and karius was always a worry and if a coach couldnt help them grow past that then it was always questionable. Maybe Becker is just to powerful and handsome to be brought down to that level.
Maybe we'll never know the full story.

[maxwellbaxter]

With all the **** he's taken, I think we should give John Achterberg a little credit too....he must be doing something right

[Red_Polo]

I think that’s still ‘making do’ (in inverted commas!) either way.



Ultimately though, if this is what it took for everything to align for us to eventually have Alisson now, then I’ll take it!

Yeah a painful frustrating wait but so ****ing worth it

[Red_Polo]

The glory years for manure with Schmeichel and van der sar, or chavs with Cech and courtois perfectly illustrates how 2nd or 3rd rate our keepers have been for years.

Big gap between Schmeichel and VDS though where they had Bosnich, Carroll, Taibi, Barthez, and ****ing hell, Howard

Chelsea's run has been pretty amazing - De Goey, Cudicini, Cech and Courtois all gradually handing over to each other.

[Mark79]

Yeah it felt like forever - we had 3 years of Mig before getting Karius and the switching between them dragged things along. I think we just knew there was nobody available who was going to clearly make the difference. Less a policy of making do and more having to until the right player was available. Glad we did now really!

I think that’s still ‘making do’ (in inverted commas!) either way.

Ultimately though, if this is what it took for everything to align for us to eventually have Alisson now, then I’ll take it!

[baitman]

The glory years for manure with Schmeichel and van der sar, or chavs with Cech and courtois perfectly illustrates how 2nd or 3rd rate our keepers have been for years.

[Red_Polo]

I mean we persisted with keepers who weren’t really convincing for a good 4 or 5 years. I know Karius had that spell where it looked like he was on track before the CL Final happened. But still, the Mignolet then chopping and changing between Mig/Karius era went on a bit too long.

Mignolet never seemed like the right signing at the time. And you wonder if Karius would have still been our top pick had it not been for his low release fee.

Yeah it felt like forever - we had 3 years of Mig before getting Karius and the switching between them dragged things along. I think we just knew there was nobody available who was going to clearly make the difference. Less a policy of making do and more having to until the right player was available. Glad we did now really!

[Mark79]

Not sure we had a make do approach. We just signed keepers that didn't work out. People of their level are hard to come by. Look at list of those mentioned as good options before we got Mignolet and look at how most have done, they've largely been bang average.

Alisson is ****ing immense. We're incredibly fortunate to have him.

I mean we persisted with keepers who weren’t really convincing for a good 4 or 5 years. I know Karius had that spell where it looked like he was on track before the CL Final happened. But still, the Mignolet then chopping and changing between Mig/Karius era went on a bit too long.

Mignolet never seemed like the right signing at the time. And you wonder if Karius would have still been our top pick had it not been for his low release fee.