Gavin Bazunu

t_rAndy wrote: I've called it from the start that Bazunu has mistakes in him that need to be ironed out  He has dropped a few playing for us in all but got away with it.  I've also said he is still young and plenty of top class keepers were making mistakes when the first broke through.  I'd fear for him now that he gets dropped for Southampton.  For ireland, I would nearly say he hadn't let us down badly yet so he is still number one but honestly speaking I would trust Kelleher more.

He made plenty of mistakes for Rochdale and some of it was blamed on Brian Barry-Murphy having them playing expansive football. Now it's Southampton's defense being blamed. Never mind the fact it's a goalkeeper's remit to organise his defense. You see this with Parrott (teammates not being up to scratch), Connolly, Idah (playing too deep), Knight (shuffled around) and our other young players when they're underperforming. One of the rare times Kelleher had something to do in goal for us he was unconvincing for the UKR goal in Dublin and didn't look commanding enough at other points. 

Edited by Hotlips_Hoolahan - 27 Dec 2022 at 1:36pm

The O'Shea wrote: TheNumber6 wrote: 19 senior games isn’t a body of work consistent with providing a definitive measure of one’s quality at the age of 24. If you'd never watched Lionel Messi before, and you only got to watch the 7 games he played at the world cup, would you need more evidence to conclude that he was an outstanding footballer? Kelleher has played 19 games for Liverpool's first team, 9 games for Ireland seniors, and 10 games for the Under-21's - and he has impressed in most of them. If you still can't tell whether he's a good goalkeeper or not, it's only because you are a bad judge of player.

19 senior games isn’t a body of work consistent with providing a definitive measure of one’s quality at the age of 24.

We're in no different a position now than what any sensible person would have realised we were in a year or two ago - we have two young keepers with very little between them.

doherty wrote: Greener92 wrote: But he’s still better than Kelleher because he is a PL starter…….horsesh*t Well when Kelleher ever plays week to week then we can assess him properly. Until then we wont know. I have no doubt Bazunu will.come out of this bad spell.

So Bazanu is sh*te now too lol. God are we ever going to get even one good solid premiership footballer from this country again.

if he gets dropped suddenly our brilliant goalkeeping situation will compromise of 3 benchwarmers....