Worst Goalkeeper

[Irish Blue82]

Eike Immel is the worst keeper I've seen play for City! It's still mind boggling that Alan Ball insisted on playing him ahead of Tony Coton and forced Coton out of the club! No way we would have gone down in 96 with TC in goal! Especially as we went down on goal difference!

 

[Sheikh rattle and roll]

I’m too young to remember some of these keepers but Bravo was very disappointing. He replaced Golden Glove Hart and had a dodgy season with some truly awful match performances. He was soon moved on for Ederson. Guardiola got off quite lightly for that one, IMO.

I totally disagree I blame us the fans
bravo was probably ok but because he replaced Hart everyone was in his back
His confidence was shot
Then guess what look at Hart rubbish wherever he went
Pep was right

 

[BLUEYESTU]

I’m really surprised to see Eric Nixon mentioned; I always thought he was a great shot stopper. I remember watching Kick Off on tv and Neville Southall was being interviewed about Eric (I think they trained together at times) and he was saying he was one of the best keepers in the country.
Perry Suckling was the worst I saw though. I saw him on tv one evening with Stuart Hall and the fiddler was calling him a future England keeper. Suckling just laughed at him!

 

[VP81]

Tommy Booth at Stoke in the League Cup too

August 1980 Tommy Booth Tommy Booth Tommy Booth April 11th 1981 Wembley Wembley Wembley

 

[Tokyo32]

Don’t talk nonsense. Hart was number one at the club and Bravo came in to replace him.

Why does Pep constantly get a free ride? He’s capable of making a mistake and he made one with Bravo.

No one is saying bravo was not bad, he just says he replaced caballero because hart was never first choice under pep. Caballero was the first choice but yes bravo was also bad

 

[The Colonel]

Not the worst but I didn't think Alex Williams was that good. Supposed to be big Joe Corrigan's protege but didn't really establish himself. Never confident about Andreas Isakson either.
Agree with those suggesting Eike Immel, when he tried to kick the ball long it only went about 30 yards along the ground.

Williams never the got the chance to reach his potential. He was still young. I was always confused as to what exactly happened to his career. I remember him missing a game with an ingrown toenai, or something similar, and then never returned.

In fairness to many keepers mentioned here they were either bought past their best following a decent career or were thrust into the side at a very young age and weren’t ready. Some of these started well, such as Nixon, but when the inevitable confidence wobble came we couldn’t afford to see them through Such as with Corrigan.

 

[bluebanana83]

What I don’t get with Eike Immel is that he was the West Germany no.1 and featured in 5 international tournaments and retired from International duty at 28 due to completion from Bodo Illgner.

He was 34 when he came to us, so not old for a goalkeeper.

Was it that the game had changed - no back passes allowed, compared to when he was in his pomp or had he just regressed massively as unlike a lot of keepers mentioned he had the pedigree.

I suppose it could be a bit how it’s gone for Joe Hart. I mean David Seaman was dreadful for us but he was nearly 40 when he signed

It is a strange one as on paper you would have thought it would have been a great signing as you didn’t get to play for Germany if you didn’t have the minerals.

Now Martyn Margetson and Simon Royce....two players who has no talent whatsoever.

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

What I don’t get with Eike Immel is that he was the West Germany no.1 and featured in 5 international tournaments and retired from International duty at 28 due to completion from Bodo Illgner.

He was 34 when he came to us, so not old for a goalkeeper.

Was it that the game had changed - no back passes allowed, compared to when he was in his pomp or had he just regressed massively as unlike a lot of keepers mentioned he had the pedigree.

I suppose it could be a bit how it’s gone for Joe Hart. I mean David Seaman was dreadful for us but he was nearly 40 when he signed

It is a strange one as on paper you would have thought it would have been a great signing as you didn’t get to play for Germany if you didn’t have the minerals.

Now Martyn Margetson and Simon Royce....two players who has no talent whatsoever.

Think Immel had a hip replacement or some kind of hip surgery not too long after leaving us?, may have limited his mobility.
Although 34 wasnt old for a keeper he'd spent his whole career in Germany so maybe struggled to adapt, possibly there were also language issues.
Think he may have been a panic buy as pretty sure he arrived close to the start of the season, IIRC Coton was injured and Ball didnt fancy Dibble or Margetson, both of whom hung around the club for years. Agree with earlier post that if TC had been reinstated when fit our chances of stsying up would have increased.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Weve had some stinkers, no doubt. Suckling, tracey, margetson, barry fuckin sydall and budgie burridge! Only when nicky weaver came along did we have a string of decent goalies, a huge blip with seaman.

but, for where we were at the time, signing bravo and playing him.... hes the worse comparatively

 

[peoffrey]

I totally disagree I blame us the fans
bravo was probably ok but because he replaced Hart everyone was in his back
His confidence was shot
Then guess what look at Hart rubbish wherever he went
Pep was right

Pep was the first manager to be given the go ahead to drop Hart. He even benched Aguero after signing Jesus.

The fact of the matter is that Bravo did a bad job overall as City keeper in a grossly underwhelming first season. I don't particularly like Hart's demeanour and I never have (looks like a fan of rugby) but it was a poor replacement.

If you don't know, ask around and you'll find out why Hart really left.