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But the point of signing him is that he might be needed. Like saying it's pointless to insure your phone for damage. Easy to say it's needless until you drop it and it's smashed up.

Stolarcyck's injury is a clear as day example of why this sort of signing is needed. All it takes is another oaf barging into McCarthy and we're down to one senior keeper with us needing to keep French and Bausor around every Saturday and Tuesday. Rather spend £50k to ensure they can keep playing youth football.

It's more that we need 3 keepers and this lad will probably be on a near minimal wage. Does it make it signing of the summer? Obviously not, but we do still need him.

Because to get an emergency loan goalkeeper every senior keeper needs to be unavailable and the rules are very strict on that. So if we got an emergency loan we'd be playing without goalkeepers on the bench etc.

Sort of signing that will piss people off but ultimately we do need 3 goalkeepers and there's no point in having Harry French or Stevie Bausor sat in the stands every saturday. Fairly sure we'll never see him play and I suspect we may not even see him on the bench. But better to be safe than sorry.

Yep I was a bit worried he'd sulk and force a move to Man United but he seems to have a good head on his shoulders and a good family around him. Would have been very easy for him to sulk and strop. He knows he's a talented lad and has that confidence about him. Also he's really bulked up over the summer and looks ready for 46 games of mens football this season and I don't think you could have said that about him last season. He'll go next summer but he seems determined to make sure he goes about things the right way.

Ignore me he plays for Swansea

No Monga in the Man City squad tonight is a surprise.

As I say, he's made nigh on 200 Premier League games. You don't do that if you're a poor player. You don't regularly get that sort of a bargain for a capable mid-table level fullback.

No point having a keeper like that sat in the stands. Let the youth players develop in youth football.

We obviously need one in fairness. Hopefully it's on a short term deal until January where we can realise the mistake we made in not signing a genuine 1st choice keeper.

Fullback we sold to Fulham when we got relegated. Played about 200 Premier League games. Good player signed for about £14m so decent signing.

Have I missed something with Boehly or is this just adding 1 and 1 together and getting 3?

I know, i'm just saying that while Cifuentes actually had a philosophy (unlike Ruud, Cooper and Rowett), he never changed his tactics which either made us easy to play against full stop or easy to mitigate against mid-game which meant we never got a 90 minute performance from him.

We haven't played well over 90 minutes and comfortably won a game yet. He'll need to do that before we get too far ahead of ourselves. Said the same things with Cifuentes before we realised just how crap he actually was and that we'd wasted 20 games or whatever it was. Martin needs to have a comfortable win in the next two league games before we start to get anywhere IMO.