Would you rather us buy somebody who isn't anywhere near as good as Hart? That's where we've been with the last couple of number twos and I don't think we've benefited at all. Fair play to Willy for his final heroics but that display papered over plenty of poor shows. Pants had his qualities but nowhere near good enough to hold down a first team place at a club hunting for trophies.
That's the dilemma isn't it? On this one, I just think if he's willing to come then we'd be daft not to go for it. Any other keeper we look at would probably be in and around 10-15 million (plucked those figures from my arse tbf) and for the extra we'd fork out to guarantee us a top class keeper would be money well spent.i get what your saying, but its very hard to have two equally good keepers because in the end one will want to leave as they wont be playing - ter stegen at the moment. I'm not really sure who could be good enough that would want to sit on the bench.
That's the dilemma isn't it? On this one, I just think if he's willing to come then we'd be daft not to go for it. Any other keeper we look at would probably be in and around 10-15 million (plucked those figures from my arse tbf) and for the extra we'd fork out to guarantee us a top class keeper would be money well spent.
I suppose it all hinges on what Caballero is planning on doing.
See but that's the comparison I was making with Hart. The striker who bangs in a goal per game despite seemingly offering little else (Gerd Muller springs to mind) would be the one I would pick. That's the stand out characteristic which should take priority over everything else from a player in that position. Similarly, the basic requirement that I would look for in a goalkeeper is the ability to keep shots from hitting the back of the net.
Although I do agree that being able to take part in those passing triangles is massively important, particularly in a Pep team. However, this is why I would hope that any keeper we sign would have Hart's shot stopping ability but with better distribution. To me, there's no point bringing in a keeper who adds a numerical advantage to our possession play but can't make the difference when really needed.
Fuk off, Pep
But there aren't any shotstoppers better than Hart who are also very good with their feet - Neuer or the donut thief are probably the only two.
And ter Stegen is not a poor goalkeeper who happens to be good on the ball, he's very good. Guardiola and his team aren't mugs, they know what a goalkeeper has to do between the posts, and ter Stegen didn't win the Champions League, getting past PSG (twice), us, Bayern Munich and Juventus without being very good at all the usual goalkeeping stuff.