Stegen was good overall. But he was not, or rather never was, the type of goalkeeper who had world class match winning saves in him. Be it lack of height, lack of agility, lack of reflexes, an inability to keep his eyes open or all of them merged together in a tightly wrapped package of Scheiße.
His last great renaissance was that Xavi league winning season. Lower block defence, more defensive coverage, but overall he was splended. In Europe? Not so much.
Doesn't matter much now really, he is old, he is broken down through injuries and if everyone is honest with themselves, especially MaTS, now not at the level that his wages are printed on. It is what it is.
Club could have handled it better, you can't be relying on Stegen being shelved by an unplanned back surgery to register his replacement. That's amateur hour at the comedy club stuff. If we are so bone dry, then don't re-register Woj, keep Pena as back-up and then tell Stegen that we support his surgery but we need to de-register him while he is recovering for the first half season.
Talking about amateur hour at the comedy club. Why did the chicken cross the goal?
Because Stegen was there and it knew he wouldn't stop him.
