Joe Hart (joined Torino on season long loan - Official)

[goalmole]

It does fit a Pep pattern of making very decisive decisions on playing staff early on his tenure at a club.

Some of it will undoubtedly simply send a signal about who is in charge. It is no coincidence that the players he sells are often big characters.

I will be surprised if Joe is leaving purely in ability terms. Pep will have had the inside track for a good while.

This all day long. It's less to do with playing ability more to do with the ability to do as the manager wants without fomenting unrest in the dressing room.

 

[twoddlehopper]

3) The roll on deodorant headed **** is jealous that Joe has a sponsorship deal with Head & Shoulders while all he gets offered is Mr. Sheen.

Roll on deodorant and mr sheen, Feels like 1995 all of sudden

 

[aguero93:20]

Roll on deodorant and mr sheen, Feels like 1995 all of sudden

As long as it's not 95/96 all over again.

 

[twoddlehopper]

As long as it's not 95/96 all over again.

Christ, hope we've seen the back of them days!
Wouldn't mind Uwe as back up to Sergio this year though.

 

[i kne albert davy]

Not really, just trying to understand why things are as they are

I think its fairly straight forward,i'm pretty sure Pep knows Joe's so far in front of Willy in terms of goalkeeping ability.Nothing against willy but he's now just playing his career out, he hasn't let us down and he seems happy with sitting on the bench.So if Pep puts Hart in and he plays well in first 4 or 5 games very difficult for the manager to drop him to bring his own man in without upsetting a vocal portion of the crowd,it doesn't matter how well Willy plays because we know he's not a first choice keeper so when he's dropped to the bench nobody really cares.

 

[HarrytheBlue]

No I didn't miss anything. You've just been woefully inconsistent and slagged De Gea and Neuer and held them to a completely different standard to Joe in your critique.

No, wrong again. De Gea is arguably better than Neuer at the moment (Buffon, for me, is still the top man), but he (De Gea) made three big mistakes in two games at the Euros (I watched most of the games) - barely a comment from anyone other than Hoddle. Hart concedes two goals he would normally keep out and there's a witch hunt. I hear pundits talking quite a lot about about Neuer's twenty clean sheets for Bayern last season. Given that statistically, he faces fewer shots than any other GK in the BL, how much of an achievement is that ? That said, he can do no more than deal with the shots that come his way. Why is it unfair to compare Hart's international clean sheet record with Neuer's ? Yes, Germany go deeper into tournaments and play the better teams in the last four, but their defence and midfield is vastly superior to England's. To me, there's a lot of criticism of Hart's ability, but when you drill down through the stats his record is exceptional - no fluke.

 

[Sergio Picasso Aguero]

it doesn't matter how well Willy plays because we know he's not a first choice keeper so when he's dropped to the bench nobody really cares.

Apart from the fans that sit behind Willy, that head of his must block the view of at least four people.

 

[i kne albert davy]

Apart from the fans that sit behind Willy, that head of his must block the view of at least four people.

Tell me about it stood on row 5 directly behind goal on Saturday what with the crossbar and his head what happened in the first half.

 

[bondsman]

No, wrong again. De Gea is arguably better than Neuer at the moment (Buffon, for me, is still the top man), but he (De Gea) made three big mistakes in two games at the Euros (I watched most of the games) - barely a comment from anyone other than Hoddle. Hart concedes two goals he would normally keep out and there's a witch hunt. I hear pundits talking quite a lot about about Neuer's twenty clean sheets for Bayern last season. Given that statistically, he faces fewer shots than any other GK in the BL, how much of an achievement is that ? That said, he can do no more than deal with the shots that come his way. Why is it unfair to compare Hart's international clean sheet record with Neuer's ? Yes, Germany go deeper into tournaments and play the better teams in the last four, but their defence and midfield is vastly superior to England's. To me, there's a lot of criticism of Hart's ability, but when you drill down through the stats his record is exceptional - no fluke.

Good post mate.

 

[HarrytheBlue]

Good post mate.

Thank you.