1 | James Trafford - 2025/26

[Dubciteh]

Maybe Newcastle, they only loaned Ramsdale, right?

Also, with how horrid Vicario has been recently, maybe Spurs? Give them Savinho too for the combo

yeah there probably the two likeliest but probably will want him for little or nothing. They would be good moves for him too.

 

[TonyBookEnd]

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.

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

 

[Burtonblue]

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.

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.

 

[dragonman98]

Considering that Ramsdale just did something pretty funny earlier, Newcastle might want to come for him again

 

[117 M34]

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

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.