At the end of the day - we can't forget that initially we wanted ter Stegen.
However we couldn't get him, and Pep was so obesessed about buying a goalie who 'can' pass, we ended up buying Barcelona's 2nd choice keeper who's 33. Not their fist choice who is 24.
Bad move from Pep and co considering we had one of the best shot stoppers in the world, and whilst he did have his flaws, we bought a keeper who will cost us more points per season than Joey, all for the sake of a few passes here and there, which isn't even working yet. Our goal kicks prove that.
We should have gone for ter Stegen, and if we couldn't get him, kept Joey and Pep could have improved him.
I've always maintained that goalkeeper is the least important position and that if those in front perform well you could have anyone in net.
Bravo is single-handedly changing that view. He's fucking shit. Hart is vastly superior in almost every respect and though Pep would not admit it he's dropped a massive bollock.
Other 1 on 1s, which aspects is Hart vastly superior?
Well no Hart isn't vastly superior in every respect. His distribution is much worse, he is very suspect on crosses, he's weak on his left hand side and his judgement is poor. One-on-one he's good but that's really about all.
To be fair though he wasn't even our first choice was he?
I don't think they cared which. They saw Barca had two goalkeepers who wanted to play all the time, we put pressure on both and forced Barcelona into a position where they had to choose for the better goalkeeper today (Bravo) or their long term prospect (ter Stegen). Either was good for us.
In hindsight it's incredibly fortunate we got Bravo because ter Stegen is more error prone and lacks the experience that Bravo does. He'd also have had a £65m price tag on his head and I can only assume everything bad with Bravo would have been amplified with the kid in goal instead.
Not seen enough of him to be honest. Just Hope Bravo pulls his finger out and starts saving some shots.
Claudio Bravo and ter Stegen arrived in the same transfer window in 2014.
In the two years they were together, Bravo played 75 games - 2x as many games as ter Stegen.
Bravo almost kept more clean sheets than ter Stegen played games.
There is no universe where he was Barcelona's second choice keeper. If people are going to discuss the signing of Bravo at least try and keep it factual.
Well he wasn't in goal the last time we won anything. And the time before that, we only let in 2 goals less than 5th place Everton and won the title largely because we scored a hatful.It's a wonder we won anything with him if he's so rubbish.
Why on earth would Barcelona let us sign their first choice keeper for £17 million, and not their 2nd choice for £40+ million?
Bravo was their first choice keeper, but it was clear that was about to change hence why they let us sign him. So at the time of signing Bravo was their second choice...