1 | James Trafford - 2025/26

dragonman98 said:
Maybe Newcastle, they only loaned Ramsdale, right?

Also, with how horrid Vicario has been recently, maybe Spurs? Give them Savinho too for the combo
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yeah there probably the two likeliest but probably will want him for little or nothing. They would be good moves for him too.
 
domalino said:
What competition?

Someone of a similar profile coming in would be competition.

Donnarumma is a couple of years older but on among the highest wages in the team (and league) and was made undisputed #1 the moment he walked in. That's not competition. If it were a normal job it'd be contrusctive dismissal to have someone paid 5x you come in and take 90% of your hours. No amount of "backing yourself" is going to make up for that.

The club had a plan, replace Ederson with Trafford with a year crossover, and then they aborted that plan when Donnarumma came onto the market. That's fine, it happens sometimes, but Trafford has every right to feel hard done by and resume his plan for his career, which involves starting every week for a CL club. Newcastle will likely come back in for him, and everyone will pretend the last 5 months didn't happen.
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So he was under the expectation of sitting on the bench for 12 months anyway.
If I was advising him, I would tell him to learn from the best. Understand what it takes to play at the very top. Excel in training, when he gets the opportunity, play well. Then be ready to compete for the No1 spot next year. He's not lost anything from the original plan. If it seems like he's not getting the opportunity, then leave in January next year.
Or leave now, accept that you'll never be as good as Donnarumma and compete with Nick Pope, where he might still be on the bench at Newcastle
 
ninjamonkey said:
What have you been watching? Donnarumma is not perfectly adequate with his feet at all, he's really poor and that is why we've made big changes in our game to accomodate it.

He's made numerous mistakes which thankfully we've largely gotten away with so far and against anybody that presses us high, we seriously struggle to get up the pitch because we're used to having a keeper as the spare man who can play.
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Mmmm we can agree to disagree. Hasn’t cost us a goal to date. Eddy definitely did with his rashness in his first seasons with us.
Agreed he may not be as good as Ederson with his feet but by God he’s a better shot stopper and all round goalie.
Mikes ahead of Trafford imho.
 
Considering that Ramsdale just did something pretty funny earlier, Newcastle might want to come for him again
 
TonyBookEnd said:
So he was under the expectation of sitting on the bench for 12 months anyway.
If I was advising him, I would tell him to learn from the best. Understand what it takes to play at the very top. Excel in training, when he gets the opportunity, play well. Then be ready to compete for the No1 spot next year. He's not lost anything from the original plan. If it seems like he's not getting the opportunity, then leave in January next year.
Or leave now, accept that you'll never be as good as Donnarumma and compete with Nick Pope, where he might still be on the bench at Newcastle
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Not quite. He was expecting to be number 1 by the end of the season with ederson here but knows that won't happen with donarumma.
 
One really good save second half, otherwise not much else to do. Good hands on a very slippy surface.

His distribution is night and day from donnarumma, remarkable how some think there isnt much in it.

You can see it just from how our gameplan changes. We are much more comfortable passing out from the back with Trafford, we are happy to go back to him even under some pressure as he can dink it over somebody into a pocket. We also saw the return of the attempted long through ball for a runner in both bobb and savinho, couple of them were close to coming off, we don't have that option anymore with donnarumma.

He's too good not to be a number 1, shame how its panned out for him and I think we will look on with regret in years to come when hes England number 1 but things happen, hopefully he doesnt hold any bad feelings about how its gone for him and he gets to show his talent elsewhere next season.
 
Beanhead said:
I don’t, good understudy though. Donna has presence and saves things he shouldn’t which decide games. Few keepers are capable of that albeit he does flap a bit at corners.
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I actually think they’re pretty similar. They’re both top shot stoppers and both flap at high balls.

Trafford is better with his feet, but Donnarumma has an aura that calms defences more.
 
Phil1 said:
Donna just been voted best keeper in world but BM think Trafford is better.

Lolz.
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We won 6 epl titles and a CL with a keeper who no one thought was the best goalkeeper in the world.

So it's not that crazy to go with what suits your team better and makes our defense less nervous!

Notice how no one says either of them are shit.. we just prefer 1 over the other so it's a difficult choice either way!
 
Blue_Lightsaber said:
We won 6 epl titles and a CL with a keeper who no one thought was the best goalkeeper in the world.

So it's not that crazy to go with what suits your team better and makes our defense less nervous!

Notice how no one says either of them are shit.. we just prefer 1 over the other so it's a difficult choice either way!
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I respect your opinion but don't personally think irs a difficult choice. Pep probably hasn't lost a wink of sleep thinking who to start since the minute Donna signed on the dotted line.

I do like Trafford btw, I'd have been content with him starting had we not signed who we did.
 
Fantastic young keeper, probably the best 2nd choice we have ever had, and that's saying something because Ortega has been brilliant for us. Having said that, he will never play ahead of Donnie, arguably the best keeper in the world.
 
Could see the difference his good distribution made in the way Brentford played against us and the way we could get on the attack quickly. Some good pin-point passes into the Brentford half and quick short passes.
 
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