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Willy Caballero

I know it's only pre season, but he really irritated me yesterday. We had a calm and composed 18 year old goalkeeper in goal for the first half, he dealt with everything, Caballero, 18 years older and with much more experience, comes on and sh*ts himself almost immediately. He's making more mistakes than usual now, there are at least 1 or 2 major ones a game. I watch him and think "yeah, that's an easy catch for a keeper from a corner".......nope, he's panicked and made a meal of a punch. Then I see a shot come in and think "Keeper's got this".......nope, Caballero has managed to miss judge the movement and it's a goal. A defender will pass the ball back to him, and you can see panic overwhelm him straight away, so he boots it anywhere. I have never seen a keeper with so little composure.

I would have Green ahead of Caballero, I would probably have Bulka ahead of him too, the only thing Caballero is good at is penalties. The odd good save here and there doesn't make up for the really poor mistakes he makes in every game. He had a good game here and there for us last season, but the more he was used the worse he got, and at the World Cup when he had to be number 1 goalkeeper, he was making more errors. He just looks like he could concede a goal from any situation.

 
Cant win trophies without a top man in goal ,  Tibo is the only 1 of squads keepers that fits that bill. Big Willy & Baka on together & the team will likely drop points. 

 
Munkworth said:
One more year of Willy!
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Indeed. Would have been surprised if it hadn’t happened.

Will be interesting who the third keeper will be.

Could be Eduardo, remember him? We still hold his registration after bizarrely giving him a one year deal and then sending him on loan.

Could be Green although I doubt that one.

Could be Blackman with him being the number two and Willy dropping down the pecking order.

Could be a keeper stepping up from the academy .

 
Good news this, I quite like Willy he's a very professional guy, handled himself brilliantly with Kepa

 
To be honest, apart from the single monumental f**kup in which he single-handedly cost us a goal, I thought he was excellent.  He claimed crosses, yelled at defenders prior to set pieces (probably not loud enough at Christensen), passed the ball sensibly, saved a few decent shots...

As it stands, how on earth is he the best we have?

 
PloKoon13 said:
To be honest, apart from the single monumental f**kup in which he single-handedly cost us a goal, I thought he was excellent.  He claimed crosses, yelled at defenders prior to set pieces (probably not loud enough at Christensen), passed the ball sensibly, saved a few decent shots...

As it stands, how on earth is he the best we have?
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Agreed. He made two saves that Kepa has been letting in and shock horror actually came off his line and caught two crosses! Starts next game for me.

Again if we had doubts about Kepa where were we in January? Plenty of keepers at small clubs doing very well who would have provided very good competition for Kepa.

 
PloKoon13 said:
To be honest, apart from the single monumental f**kup in which he single-handedly cost us a goal, I thought he was excellent.  He claimed crosses, yelled at defenders prior to set pieces (probably not loud enough at Christensen), passed the ball sensibly, saved a few decent shots...

As it stands, how on earth is he the best we have?
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He messed up on the second goal but was not a single handed thing imo. We defended the ball back in poorly and left Chilwell unmarked.

 
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Great to get the win though get the feeling every match there is a mistake in Willy.

Last match racing out of his box for a ball he couldn't get and today that dodgy moment when he selected to catch rather than push away a high ball almost carrying it over the line.

 
Strider6003 said:
Great to get the win though get the feeling every match there is a mistake in Willy.

Last match racing out of his box for a ball he couldn't get and today that dodgy moment when he selected to catch rather than push away a high ball almost carrying it over the line.
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It's the same with Kepa though, on set pieces and crosses Kepa is f**king DREADFUL, it feels like my heart is in my mouth whenever the opposition whips a ball in with Kepa there. 

 
I have huge respect for Willy and the way he's conducted himself here but a new keeper/miracle Kepa resurgence can't come quick enough.

If we had a more experienced team I'd say take a punt with Jamie Cumming and see if it worked De Gea (at Atleti) style but it's not a good idea with so many young players in already.

 
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He played well today. Keeps his spot for Bayern in my view.

 
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Love Willy. His attitude was amazing during the fiasco at cup final with Kepa. Just that moment has won me over and I hope he keeps his spot rest of the season.

That one save he made yesterday, honestly wouldn’t surprise me if Kepa didn’t save that with his weak wrists.

 
Correct decision given this season is (likely) going on past June.

Hopefully we let him go before the start of the next season though.

 
Argo said:
Correct decision given this season is (likely) going on past June.

Hopefully we let him go before the start of the next season though.
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It says we triggered an option for next season though, and if Kepa continues to be ropey we are screwed. The uncertainty around clubs finance would have made it perfect to get in a solid backup, someone like Ramsdale at Bournemouth would have been ideal if they went down.

Looking further in Europe we could have picked up a solid GK on a cheap to challenge Kepa.

 
ducavis said:
It says we triggered an option for next season though, and if Kepa continues to be ropey we are screwed. The uncertainty around clubs finance would have made it perfect to get in a solid backup, someone like Ramsdale at Bournemouth would have been ideal if they went down.

Looking further in Europe we could have picked up a solid GK on a cheap to challenge Kepa.
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There's a chance we still may sign a keeper either way as I imagine Jamie Cumming will head out on loan (hopefully so as I genuinely believe he is capable of an impact similar to what we've seen from Dean Henderson).

That way he will be our new Rob Green, so to speak.

 
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