So those defenders are now all brilliant because they have Bravo behind them?
And Sanchez and Vidal won headers because Bravo has a masters in aerodynamics and can calculate trajectories based on player height difference? Yet he can't make a simple save when he's back in England. His distribution is fairly good. Like an 8/10 for a keeper good. Let's not pretend he's Beckham with a pair of gloves. Us signing him didn't make sense, because we didn't sign any defenders who were comfortable taking the ball under pressure. That issue needed sorting before you implement a system where defenders are asked to take the ball under pressure. Had we have signed those defenders last season, this season would have been a logical time to buy a keeper like Bravo.
It doesn't make sense for us to keep him. Especially not now we have signed Ederson. Bravo is already on record from his time in Barcelona stating that he was unhappy about being rotated - and that was when he was playing in all the La Liga games. On top of that, he's had a terrible season. It does make sense to have a sweeper-keeper who can use his feet, but we also need a keeper who can handle the physical aspects of the league as well as actually make game defining saves.
Thankfully Pep doesn't agree with some of the assessments on here.
What?
No, those defenders are pretty shit in general. They have had ordinary careers other than Medal. Bravo is key to that type of defending.
I don't need that theory ratified in bluemoon, two of the very best coaches in the World have utilised Bravo.
If you want a keeper that comes and clatters centre forwards Bravo is not the man.
If you are going to defend in the manor I expect us to do, if Chile continue to over achieve massively then Bravo will remain key.
Why doesn't Pep agree? What have you based that on?
Yes we've signed Ederson, a young untested keeper, we've also sent Gunn on loan and released Caballero and Hart is persona non grata.
If Peo had fucked Bravo off and signed Obilak & Pickford I'd be wrong.
So I would say that as we now have two fairly small ball playing sweeper keepers that Pep very much agrees with what I'm saying.
And if you can't see the difference between Bravo finding the centre forwards and giving them a good chance of retaining the ball near every time he goes long and the likes of Cech or Hart chipping it for centre back heading practice, then you're not watching properly.
Oh and we signed Stones to play out from the back, moved Kolarov centrally for the same reason. Signed Gundogan who's one of the best transitional midfielders in World football.
We didn't sign any fullbacks, because we had four we couldn't shift.
