De Gea Replacement

Who is your preferred replacement for De Gea?

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Hemil said:
The big caveat from Mourinho, however, is that Chelsea would only countenance a sale that reflects Cech’s ongoing status as one of the best goalkeeper in the world.

“I don’t think Petr is a guy to be persuaded,” said Mourinho. “I will just wait, wishing his decision is to stay. But I don’t waste my time trying to persuade him. If he tells me he wants to leave I will tell him my opinion: that he is one of the three best goalkeepers in the world, so huge money.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...eave-Chelsea-but-it-will-take-huge-offer.html
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He's the second choice goalkeeper with a year left on his contract who is 32 with your first choice is 22. £10m is still a ridiculous amount of money. To put it into perspective, that would be the 5th most expensive goalkeeper of all time, or there abouts.
 
RikRuud said:
Are you always like this or just Sunday mornings? It was a simple question.
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It was a simple answer, one I'd already given. If you can't even be bothered to read at least the page of the thread you want to comment on then don't expect civility.
 
If he leaves this summer, then Valdes will stay on for the next three to four years and then the Savic kid looks like a decent prospect.
 
Give chance to Sam Johnstone, he's great prospect, having some games in physical league under his belt is big plus for me..
 
Valdes is very underated on here, he was a world class shot stopper for a long period, the issues are. 1. can he deal with the high ball game in the PL, which never looked his strongsuit at Barca. (valid question) 2. how good is he after his injury (potential falcao mkII)

I think we'll lose De Gea, thats the reality of the situation, Lloris for me would be an absolute perfect like for like replacement, but clearly LvG had one eye on Valdes for next season anyhow and dealing with Levy will be a colossal pain in the backside.
 
Valdés' best season was his last one, but as mentioned it remains to be seen how he has recovered from his injury and if he is suited for the premier. His strong points used to be dealing with 1 vs 1 and handling the pressure of only intervening once or twice per game and having the result depend on him, while he used to be weak with crosses and aerial game.
 
Hemil said:
The big caveat from Mourinho, however, is that Chelsea would only countenance a sale that reflects Cech’s ongoing status as one of the best goalkeeper in the world.

“I don’t think Petr is a guy to be persuaded,” said Mourinho. “I will just wait, wishing his decision is to stay. But I don’t waste my time trying to persuade him. If he tells me he wants to leave I will tell him my opinion: that he is one of the three best goalkeepers in the world, so huge money.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...eave-Chelsea-but-it-will-take-huge-offer.html
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Thats just the typical Chelsea ploy to sell their players at high value, like Mata and others
 
Is Fraser Forster such a bad shout, he's only 26 (27 on Tuesday) which isn't old for a keeper and keeps getting better when I see him, I remember watching him in the UCL for Celtic and was fantastic and the majority of the time when I do watch Soton he is brilliant, plus he isn't Spanish so won't feck off to Madrid or Barca.

I obviously hope De Gea signs a new contract and we have him for another 5 years+ but hypothetically in regards to whats available i wouldn't be too disappointed.
 
Forster is a decent shot stopper, not too sure about him coming off his line with 100% confidence each time,
for me, Lloris or Cech are the two who we should be looking at, if we get 30+mill off Real for De Gea we should just go out and buy one of those 2, both are in the top 5 GK's in the PL, along with Chelseas new no.1 and our Dave.
But we all know it will be Valdes.. I really hope to god he can handle English football.
 
There is no way we'd start the next season with Valdes as number 1 without having any idea about how he would perform. By that time he'll have been without competitive football for over a year. That's madness. And why does Tim fecking Krul get so many mentions in this thread?
 
I reckon De Gea will sign with some sort of Ronaldo like agreement that he can elave the year after, he gets his wish and we get top dollar.

I don't want Lloris, cost a bomb and isn't at the top level imo, think Valdes will be fine.
 
GledTheRed said:
I don't want Lloris, cost a bomb and isn't at the top level imo, think Valdes will be fine.
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I`ll be scared if Valdes is our number one. We should not let De Gea leave if we do not have proper replacement lined up (not that I can think of any).
 
Where did rumours of Tim Krul come from? What, because he's Dutch? Never mind the fact LVG didn't think him good enough to start ahead of that other Dutch numpty in world cup.

DDG certain to go, just hope we can get decent money for him, which, knowing us it will be in exchange for an official y-fronts 'partner' and a handful of magic beans.

Unless we try another young, promising keeper i think the best to go for is lloris, we were apparently very close to buying him before we got DDG. Spurs will shaft us as usual though.
 
Dracula said:
Where did rumours of Tim Krul come from? What, because he's Dutch? Never mind the fact LVG didn't think him good enough to start ahead of that other Dutch numpty in world cup.

DDG certain to go, just hope we can get decent money for him, which, knowing us it will be in exchange for an official y-fronts 'partner' and a handful of magic beans.

Unless we try another young, promising keeper i think the best to go for is lloris, we were apparently very close to buying him before we got DDG. Spurs will shaft us as usual though.
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Lloris would cost quite a lot, if Levy decides to become a nice person and do business with us. I would say that he'll cost north of 30m which will be more than what we will get from De Gea if we sell him without renewing his contract. But yeah, Lloris would be my first choice too, if Dave wants to leave.

Krul shouldn't even be an option, he is several levels below top goalkeepers. If we sign him, it will be the period between Schmeichel 0 VDS all over again.

Anyway, if Dave doesn't extend, I would still prefer to keep him for an another season (and tempt him during the season to sign a new contract, similar to BVB with Reus) rather than lose him for 15-20m, which I guess is the money we would get from him with a single year on his contract. But on the other side, it is possible that Madrid would say 'well, 20m is cheapish, and we need a new Galactico, so here you have 60m for him, regardless that we can get him for free next season'. After all, they need a 'galactico' every year and I guess it will be between Pogba and De Gea. And lets be fair, you can't be both a Galactico and cost 20m at the same time.
 
Revan said:
Lloris would cost quite a lot, if Levy decides to become a nice person and do business with us. I would say that he'll cost north of 30m which will be more than what we will get from De Gea if we sell him without renewing his contract. But yeah, Lloris would be my first choice too, if Dave wants to leave.

Krul shouldn't even be an option, he is several levels below top goalkeepers. If we sign him, it will be the period between Schmeichel 0 VDS all over again.

Anyway, if Dave doesn't extend, I would still prefer to keep him for an another season (and tempt him during the season to sign a new contract, similar to BVB with Reus) rather than lose him for 15-20m, which I guess is the money we would get from him with a single year on his contract. But on the other side, it is possible that Madrid would say 'well, 20m is cheapish, and we need a new Galactico, so here you have 60m for him, regardless that we can get him for free next season'. After all, they need a 'galactico' every year and I guess it will be between Pogba and De Gea. And lets be fair, you can't be both a Galactico and cost 20m at the same time.
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This could happen actually. I remember having a conversation on here ages ago about my feeling that we could still get a hefty fee for him, despite the one-year-contract situation. It's almost in Madrid's interest to spend big and create a fuss, perhaps more so than to get him on the cheap.

If he's resigned to leaving, we'll try to hoick up the fee, and they may end up paying it. Unless he's not their main target. However I still think close to £40million could be squeezed out of it, even if they were also buying Pogba for £50-60 million.
 
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amolbhatia100 said:
Keeper is a position you can get away with not spending big on.
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This should be the case, but as it happens this season we'd be pretty screwed if we hadn't had the best keeper in the league. Which begs the question:

Would you swap De Gea for a team that doesn't need to have a world class goalkeeper constantly saving their behinds?

Much as I'd hate to see him go, on balance I'd rather have an average goalie with little to do!
 
What's the most amount of money a team has got when selling a player with 1 year left on his contract?
 
Skills said:
We paid 24m for RVP and so did Madrid for Kroos. Can't think of anyone else.
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I was thinking of RVP too. If he doesn't sign a new contract I reckon a lot of people are going to be left disappointed with the fee we receive.
 
Chelsea will not sell Cech to us so forget that. Annoyingly we won't get much for De Gea as he has only one year left on his contract. Lloris will cost a fortune. In reality, I suspect that Valdes has already been given assurances that he will be no.1 next year though - can't see him coming here just to play U21 football.
 
I'm still holding on to the fact that his came from Athletico, therefore won't play for Real. Doubtful but someone's gotta be positive.
 
Sparky Rhiwabon said:
Chelsea will not sell Cech to us so forget that. Annoyingly we won't get much for De Gea as he has only one year left on his contract. Lloris will cost a fortune. In reality, I suspect that Valdes has already been given assurances that he will be no.1 next year though - can't see him coming here just to play U21 football.
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Exactly, I can see lloris costing us twice what we get for DDG if he were to leave. I'd imagine we'll at least give Valdes a season as first choice to see how it happens. But as it has been noted, most teams will get by with an above average keeper so long as the defence is relatively strong so Valdes with Hummels and Varane (purely for arguments sake) in front of him is probably not going to conceed a whole lot more than DDG with Jones and Smalling in front of him.
 
Have you ever thought about Zieler? He's your academy product, still young but proven. A top club might be the thing he needs to put his game to the highest level. If it goes wrong, there's still Valdez.
 
We're talking about Real here though, not a normal club, if those numpties have a little fan vote and DDG comes up the fans no.1 choice for a purchase this summer, Madrid will overpay to get their man, and appease their fans with another chimps teaparty player parade, 85mill for Bale rings a bell.
Think we can get 25-30mill from them so long as we're patient, touch wood, Chelseas negotiating team would probably get 50mill in the same situation.
 
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