What I cannot understand is Brendan through his experience should recognise that for any side irrespective of the system should always always have a solid defence,
and that starts with your keeper,
Shanks knew it , as did Sir Bob and so to did the King, we have for most of the time had top keepers with one or two dodgy ones in between, ie James, Westerveld , but in all honesty Migs has to go down as the worst I can remember,
Achterberg obviously has to shoulder a lot of the blame but it's not all down to him, keepers good or bad can have moments of brilliance as well as moments of sheer F***ing idiocy,
It's about decision making and positioning both of which Migs has been lacking for over a year,
So what to do about it, for me in all honesty Migs will never be good enough, a decent 2nd yeah maybe but not first choice,
This is another example of FSG penny pinching ,
We had a very good keeper in Pepe, yeah for sure he had dipped in form but he was still miles better than Simon, but he was being over paid so he had to go,
You cannot put a price on defence, look at chavs, their back 5 probably the most secure in the prem costs the best part out entire f***in team Gerrard & Johnson aside, even their back up are better than our regulars,
I don't think we're going to get any better until a decent top quality keeper is found(Cech),
A keeper such as he will instill the confidence in those in front of him simply because of his decision making, his positioning , his organising , the problem we have is our cb's have no trust in Migs, no confidence , hence the amount of leakage this season,
Get it sorted Brendan, this month, priority number one !
YNWA
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