Villan4Life Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 1 minute ago, bobzy said: Based on League One versus Serie A/Championship? Hmmmm.... Hmmm. Gollini had a pretty average season in serie a. Was making mistakes galore and not commanding enough. we are aiming for play offs which Johnstone has experience in and also winning it. He is commanding The guy will play in premiership with or without us in due course. He is a much better keeper than gollini doesn't matter what league they are in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 1 minute ago, bobzy said: Based on League One versus Serie A/Championship? Hmmmm.... Goalkeeper is the only position on the pitch where the level is of little relevance. IMO of course. If anything in the lower leagues they have to deal with more 'hopeful' balls lumped into the box. Making a save is making a save. If his attributes are right, the step up from keeping in League One to the Championship is nothing. I've never seen him play, but he can't be worse than Bunn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Bit 'meh' about Rhodes but would be nice to have some, not entirely useless, options up front for a change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 14 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: If his attributes are right, the step up from keeping in League One to the Championship is nothing. I've never seen him play, but he can't be worse than Bunn. I'm not worse than Bunn Plus I can kick a ball over the halfway line. And my distribution would be 4 times better as I would never throw/pass the ball to Hutton, Westwood, Gardner or Bacuna. And I'd never hoof it long to Gaby. In fact I would goad everybody up the pitch bring the ball out the box as far up the pitch as possible then either shoot for goal, kick it out for a throw in near the cornerflag or dribble through their whole team scoring a worldy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marley the Bognor Villan Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Kozak gone to FC Opava apparently 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 31 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: Where we're going, we definitely need Rhodes Is there any conCrete links to him yet? How much would he Kost? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garvey13 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 2 strikers down must mean we have one coming in I hope for Rhodes as him and Kodja would make a good combo think all he links to Rhodes are speculation at this point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 13 minutes ago, Marley the Bognor Villan said: Kozak gone to FC Opava apparently Where have you heard this? Is it free transfer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 3 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: Where have you heard this? Is it free transfer? Probably his level, based on the fact I've never heard of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junxs Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 46 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: Goalkeeper is the only position on the pitch where the level is of little relevance. IMO of course. If anything in the lower leagues they have to deal with more 'hopeful' balls lumped into the box. Making a save is making a save. If his attributes are right, the step up from keeping in League One to the Championship is nothing. I've never seen him play, but he can't be worse than Bunn. Disagree. The higher up the leagues you go, the better the quality of strikers and finishing in general you are up against. How many times on tv do you see a standard save where the commentary tries to make out that it was a great save.. In reality most of the time the shot was straight at the keeper and it wasn't a great save at all. The lower down the leagues you go the more standard saves are made and keepers get a false reputation of being better than they are. When you are up against better players you have to spread yourself better and dive further to make saves. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marley the Bognor Villan Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 7 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: Where have you heard this? Is it free transfer? Only on twitter, thats why I said apparently but at least its not from agent dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingsombrero Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 That'd be him returning to where he started his career I believe. Still dropping to the Czech 2nd division doesn't sound particularly likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 1 minute ago, flamingsombrero said: That'd be him returning to where he started his career I believe. Still dropping to the Czech 2nd division doesn't sound particularly likely. I'd say he's done well. He's useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eholm Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 A google news search for FC Opava and Kozak takes you to a Czech paper called Denik which appears to confirm that he has joined on loan for 6 months; in effect ending his time with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alakagom Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Glad we're clearing deadwood pretty fast. 2 outs so far and I couldn't be more pleased lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastie Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 1 hour ago, osmark86 said: no links to an additional CB yet? Maybe going to use toner as the cover now he's returned from loan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 1 hour ago, Villan4Life said: Hmmm. Gollini had a pretty average season in serie a. Was making mistakes galore and not commanding enough. we are aiming for play offs which Johnstone has experience in and also winning it. He is commanding The guy will play in premiership with or without us in due course. He is a much better keeper than gollini doesn't matter what league they are in. Gollini had a very good season playing for what was basically Serie A's version of Villa. Bit worrying that despite being 2 years older than Gollini, Johnstone couldn't get in to the PNE side last year and nobody bought him in on loan this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 4 minutes ago, kurtsimonw said: Gollini had a very good season playing for what was basically Serie A's version of Villa. Bit worrying that despite being 2 years older than Gollini, Johnstone couldn't get in to the PNE side last year and nobody bought him in on loan this summer. Unless Gollini was a major, major, talented young keeper it was always going to be difficult for him to come here and play a full season as number 1 - He was always go8ing to need a season or 2 to settle. It was a bit of daft move by RDM to he honest - he brought him as number 1 - when realistically he need time in the reserves - Baring a series of world beating appearances - which we didn't get. Johnstone has a little more experience - and is slightly older - at £2m he's cheaper than Gollini To be honest though I wouldn't be surprised if neither is at the club start of next season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 5 minutes ago, Alakagom said: Glad we're clearing deadwood pretty fast. 2 outs so far and I couldn't be more pleased lol As I said in the summer with the massive turnover in personnel under RDM that under normal circumstances most people would obviously want a more transitional transfer plan not to upset the balance of the squad etc. These are not normal circumstances however and the quicker they all go, the better. There's nothing I'd want to keep about Hutton, Bacuna, Richards, Cissokho, Gardner or Agbonlahor. Westwood's time is surely up. Ayew frustrates me greatly and I don't think he'll be missed, Kozak and Rudy seem to have left the building. I'm glad DrX and the crew are rumoured to be after 5 players. I'll be amazed if we manage to shift any of those first 6 i mentioned though in this window. People's desire to stand up for any of those individually is admirable and from a heart which flows claret and blue, i get it. But we all deep down know they're just not good enough at football. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vreitti Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Awfully quiet on the incoming side, it is after all already the 4th of January. A tweet from the Doctor would be welcome right about now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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