1 | James Trafford - 2025/26

Blue_Lightsaber said:
Everyone's a project except Rodri and Haaland!

Doku - hope he gets better
Savinho - hope he gets better
Bobb - hope he gets better
Reijnders - hope he gets better
Cherki - hope he gets better
Foden - hope he gets better
Ait-Nouri - hope he gets better
Nunes - There is no fucking hope he gets better
Rico - hope he gets better

I'm not making this up.. and today even Erling's scoring should have been better..
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Just tweaked the Nunes one a bit.
 
Im jumping to conclusions, but I can see him leaving on loan or permanently next summer. He’s too good to be a bench warmer and needs to be starting each week.

Maybe he did know, but I don’t think he’d have signed for us if he’d have known we’re signing Donnarumma. Doesn’t matter how good he is, he ain’t starting ahead of him.

I know posters will say that’s the reality of top level football, but it does feel incredibly harsh on the lad.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
Im jumping to conclusions, but I can see him leaving on loan or permanently next summer. He’s too good to be a bench warmer and needs to be starting each week.

Maybe he did know, but I don’t think he’d have signed for us if he’d have known we’re signing Donnarumma. Doesn’t matter how good he is, he ain’t starting ahead of him.

I know posters will say that’s the reality of top level football, but it does feel incredibly harsh on the lad.
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But did he really think he was coming to replace Ederson?

Pep made it clear Ederson was his first choice. Obviously not the past few weeks as he was packing his suitcase, but generally speaking he was.

The only way Ederson was leaving was if we got a world class replacement.

So either way you look at it, Trafford should probably know that he was always gonna be second choice behind Ederson or Ederson's replacement. Nothing harsh about it, he was never brought back to be permanent first choice.
 
He's too good to be a cup keeper. I trust the club has a plan for him and I'll be interested to see how this plays out
 
thebiglug said:
But did he really think he was coming to replace Ederson?

Pep made it clear Ederson was his first choice. Obviously not the past few weeks as he was packing his suitcase, but generally speaking he was.

The only way Ederson was leaving was if we got a world class replacement.

So either way you look at it, Trafford should probably know that he was always gonna be second choice behind Ederson or Ederson's replacement. Nothing harsh about it, he was never brought back to be permanent first choice.
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No, but at least with Ederson there was a clear pathway to becoming the first choice keeper. This signing completely blocks that. Short of some kind of disaster or major injury he has no chance of becoming our first choice.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Just tweaked the Nunes one a bit.
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Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
No, but at least with Ederson there was a clear pathway to becoming the first choice keeper. This signing completely blocks that. Short of some kind of disaster or major injury he has no chance of becoming our first choice.
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Oh well. Tough luck I guess. This is top level football and you have to anticipate at the best clubs that you're gonna be competing with world class players for your spot.

I'm sure he's never been promised anything.
 
I think its fairly clear we've deviated from the original plan here. Trafford came in as the eventual successor to a much older keeper on his way out, at most, in a year or so, we've now got a high profile keeper on a long expensive contract who has to be number 1 and is only a few years older than Trafford.

That is undoubtedly going to change things with Trafford. He's never going to settle for being number 2 his whole career, too good for that so I imagine he is going to be asking to leave again very soon. We're going to have to go back into the market for yet another keeper, (perhaps we find a loan for this season but keep Ortega?) and we'll have the issue of losing a valuable club trained player that's going to need dealing with. Its a problem for next summer but its definitely going to be a problem.
 
Pep is expected to rotate between Gigi and Trafford. I believe Trafford will feature more often in the Premier League, while Gigi will remain the first choice in the Champions League.
 
Just can't down the best in the world, particularly when it looks like we have mentality issues and fragility at the club. Another 'mentality monster' who delivers in the big games and is going to lay into that defence is exactly what we need for me. Whether it ruins trafford or not.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
Im jumping to conclusions, but I can see him leaving on loan or permanently next summer. He’s too good to be a bench warmer and needs to be starting each week.

Maybe he did know, but I don’t think he’d have signed for us if he’d have known we’re signing Donnarumma. Doesn’t matter how good he is, he ain’t starting ahead of him.

I know posters will say that’s the reality of top level football, but it does feel incredibly harsh on the
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Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
Im jumping to conclusions, but I can see him leaving on loan or permanently next summer. He’s too good to be a bench warmer and needs to be starting each week.

Maybe he did know, but I don’t think he’d have signed for us if he’d have known we’re signing Donnarumma. Doesn’t matter how good he is, he ain’t starting ahead of him.

I know posters will say that’s the reality of top level football, but it does feel incredibly harsh on the lad.
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From the clubs point of view, if he wants to go next year, city will still probably make profit on him as a young English keeper. He could still mKe 20 appearances this year and get himself in the window
 
Dipsis_LTU_MC said:
Pep is expected to rotate between Gigi and Trafford. I believe Trafford will feature more often in the Premier League, while Gigi will remain the first choice in the Champions League.
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Perhaps in the very immediate short term, but we saw with Arsenal, you cannot make that work.

you have to have a clear hierarchy and we've now got 2 young keepers who will not accept being second choice.
 
The club is not incompetent to give such an important position as goalkeeper to a 22-year-old player who has not had a single season of reference at the highest level. When he was recruited, they surely explained to him that he will be the number 2 to Ederson or another goalkeeper and that they see in him the potential to become number 1 in the medium term.

He's already played three matches, and I see him playing in the derby. If he's good, he'll play against Arsenal. I think Donnarumma will play against Napoli. In my opinion, he'll start this season as a number 2, but he'll play about twenty matches each season, including domestic cup games, two to four Champions League matches, and five to ten Premier League matches, which is a boon at his age at a club like Manchester City.

He will be competing and working with one of the best goalkeepers in the world, he will get along very well with the Italian who has a very good mentality, and above all he will learn a lot at his side.

The career of a goalkeeper is very long compared to an outfield player, he can play until 36 or 40 years old, he is in his favorite club, if he works and shows that he is as good or better than Donnarumma, there is no reason for the hierarchy not to be shaken up, and it is his number 1 position for the 10 years that arrives in one of the biggest clubs in the world.
 
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