1 - Marc-Andre ter Stegen

jamrock

Senior Member
Piqué knew whats'up even before ter stegen injury:

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Our future president, laporta needs to bring him in as VP.
 

BBZ8800

Senior Member
Been a few years since I heard this :lol: :lol:

He was Frosty before he was Ter Statue before he was Twerk Station :lol:
I am against a lot of players.
I disliked Mats from the day 1.

Remember how Bravo made miracles in his first season here.
Wikipedia:
He won the Zamora for the best goals against average in the competition, conceding 19 times for an average of 0.51, just off the all-time record of 0.47 by Francisco Liano of Deportivo in 1994.

But Mats won a CL that season and fooled everyone.
Plus, he was young and everyone have a fetish on young players.

We sold Bravo and got Mats for the next 10 years.

In his first season as La Liga keeper, he started to have those weird reactions when he would:
1. just freeze and watch the ball
2. or just raise one arm and trying to make a save instead of using two hands
3. also, it looked as if he isn't a natural goalkeeper.
A natural goalkeeper like Buffon or Curtois ALWAYS jumps towards the post when the ball goes into the corner. No matter if you can get to the ball or not.
But at least you jumped and tried.

Mats, on the other hand, often wouldn't jump towards the ball at all and his body language was something like: it's too far from me, I won't catch it, so why bother to jump?
And he would just stand "frozen" on the line watching how the ball goes into the top corner without trying to do anything.

That made him look as lazy.
But also as if he is not a natural goalkeeper but a midfielder who was turned into a playmaking goalkeeper who feels unnatural at a goal.

So, 10 years ago we lost a superior keeper Bravo because of him.
Now we might lose Szczesny because of him.

Szczesny isn't a longterm solution.
But it is better to have him for 1 more season and to win a treble and have a shot at CL than to have Mats for 5 years and getting KOd by Roma, Manchester, Benfica, Galatasaray and similar.
 

Temptation

Well-known member
I never liked him.

Bravo was better than him but his PR forced Bravo out of a club.

After that, he was frosty the clown and a Gk with the weirdest goalkeeping style, as if he played as a handball keeper as a kid.

All in all, he was bad for 70% of time here and good for 30% of time.

1 good season
Then 2-3 bad seasons

Very hot and cold.
Not reliable on larger samples.

If we had a better keeper, who knows, probably we would have won more CLs in Messi's final years.

Current Szczesny is Messi compared to him.
Common BBZ W
 

Don Juan Laporta Estruch

Basta yaaaaaaa, Cabron ! y Bona nit 🥂
Instead of celebrating that his reign of terror may be over, we should be asking serious questions as to how it was allowed to go on for so long.

Horrible performances like the one against Villarreal have been commonplace for Mats for at least the last 6 years. And not once have they thought he wasn't good enough for Barca.

Even part time plastic Barca fans, who think Cruyff is a yearly dog show, have been saying for years he is a problem.

Yet it takes another disasterclass after suffering what would be for most goalkeepers his age, a career ending injury, to convince them they need a new goalkeeper ??

The only conclusion we can make from this debacle is that our Sporting Department are a bigger problem than even Ter Stegen himself.
 

draconifire

NTC with a Positive attitude
How do we know its credible though.
I dont see us booting out the Terrorist. At most we will bring in a new keeper, and this guy will be in a PR press tour and keep his starting spot.

Doesnt change much if he is not booted out.
 

Alik

Moderator
How do we know its credible though.
I dont see us booting out the Terrorist. At most we will bring in a new keeper, and this guy will be in a PR press tour and keep his starting spot.

Doesnt change much if he is not booted out.
Tek doesn't renew -> We bring in a new keeper to "compete" with MATS -> MATS gets benched after pre-season.
 

draconifire

NTC with a Positive attitude
Tek doesn't renew -> We bring in a new keeper to "compete" with MATS -> MATS gets benched after pre-season.
Ya thats probably the best outcome.
But I also see it like this:

Tek doesn't renew -> We bring in a new keeper to "compete" with MATS -> MATS gets benched after pre-season -> MATS go crying to the press -> Press starts grilling Flick -> New keeper has a bad period of games -> Press grill Flick more -> Flick caves and starts MATS.

I will kill myself.
 

TheStig

Member
If they are searching for a goalkeeper it means Tek won't renew and they'll bring a backup keeper becaue Flick doesn't want Pena anymore. The reign of terror continues...
 

Andresito

Senior Member
Staff member
Tek not renewing might actually do us a favour, even if he'd be a great backup.

That means we have to buy a GK. I very much doubt we'll spend 10-15 on a pure backup, when you can spend 10m more and get a keeper who can compete for first spot.
 

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