Mads Hermansen (close to 18m move to West Ham)

[LCFCJohn]

11 hours ago, shen said:

It's difficult to compare Schmeichel in his last years with Mads in his one PL season due to their respective contexts.

I think Hermansen's ceiling is higher, without doubt, and he must have outperformed Schmeichel in a number of metrics during the half season prior to his injury.

 

But I'm not trying to make a parallel comparison here, all I'm saying is that Hermansen is a PL-ready goalkeeper and I don't believe Stolarczyk will ever be.

So if we sell Hermansen, then goalkeeper's another piece we have to find and upgrade to get back and stay in the PL.

Selling off our few wanted and prized assets will only make it harder for us to return to the PL.

 

Maybe it's a sacrifice that needs to be made, only the club will really know, but I'd rather take a PSR hit in the short term than risk our medium-to-long term ambitions.

I personally think Stolarcryk proved himself at Premier League level last season given the mess in front of him, he did well given how he was chucked in. He out performed Hermansen (yes I realise Hermansen was carrying the injury when he came back). Most of our positive results were with Stolarcryk.

 

He might not be as good with the ball as Hermansen but is better than him in commanding his area. Both are good shot stoppers.

 

It’s so far down the list of positions we need to address. I’d be annoyed if we spent on a new keeper if Hermansen goes as it would be a waste of funds that could address the striker and central midfield positions as a bare minimum.

[Pliskin]

Love Mads but if we need to sell an asset he is the one we can make a profit on. He will eventually be one of the best around. 

[coolhandfox]

People need to stop trying to convince themselves that Stolarcryk is as good a keeper as Hermansen, he's not.

 

Is it the right thing to sell Hermansen and give Stolarcryk a chance 100%.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 2 August 2025 by coolhandfox

[jv1]

I get the feeling he isn’t going anywhere- and that actually gives us a bit of a good problem because no way they don’t start him as first choice - he is a golden egg and the club know he would have to play to keep his value - interesting nobody has paid the money - either we are asking way to much or maybe others don’t rate him quite as highly as we do - I thought he would have been well gone by now injury or not 

Edited 2 August 2025 by jv1

[Claudio Fannieri]

I can see us closing out 2 or 3 deals over the next 48/72 hours, my prediction would be Mepham, Brownhill and Kone, whilst I also think over the next 3/4 days we see the departure of Mads and Bilal. 

[DezFox]

8 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

People need to stop trying to convince themselves that Stolarcryk is as good a keeper as Hermansen, he's not.

 

Is it the right thing to sell Hermansen and give Stolarcryk a chance 100%.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I agree Jakub is not as good as mads, but given our situation, yes it is the correct decision to give him a chance. We can’t can’t waste money, time and PSR thresholds on keeping mads. He is a loss, we will be a worse team without him but not much worse. 

[stu]

20 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

I can see us closing out 2 or 3 deals over the next 48/72 hours, my prediction would be Mepham, Brownhill and Kone, whilst I also think over the next 3/4 days we see the departure of Mads and Bilal. 

You do remember who is our DoF, right?

[Pliskin]

32 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

People need to stop trying to convince themselves that Stolarcryk is as good a keeper as Hermansen, he's not.

 

Is it the right thing to sell Hermansen and give Stolarcryk a chance 100%.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Currently he isn’t, but Stolarczyk has a lot of potential, and is more than able to play at this level. Mads is amazing and will one day be one of the best in the world in my opinion, but Stolarczyk is an extremely highly rated GK, and has proven that he’s good enough at PL level. He’s got the potential to be as good as Mads in my opinion. 

[FrankieADZ]

 

[mozartfox]

26 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

 

How much will Rudders agree to pay WHam to take him?  

[suffolk fox]

Hopefully for once, we are playing hardball over the low offer they have made.  Afterall we often sell players at ridiculously low offers.  Let's pray this time Rudkin and co see sense.  (I doubt it though).

[Gravel]

14 minutes ago, suffolk fox said:

Hopefully for once, we are playing hardball over the low offer they have made.  Afterall we often sell players at ridiculously low offers.  Let's pray this time Rudkin and co see sense.  (I doubt it though).

£15m  plus add ons deal incoming... 

[DZ-LCFC]

Red Devils boss Ruben Amorim is eyeing the Leicester City keeper as a potential long-term replacement for calamitous Cameroonian Andre Onana.

 

But SunSport understands West Ham have stolen a march on their Prem rivals by agreeing personal terms with the 25-year-old keeper.

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/36123710/transfer-news-hermansen-man-utd-west-ham-personal-terms/

Edited 2 August 2025 by DZ-LCFC

[Dahnsouff]

51 minutes ago, suffolk fox said:

Hopefully for once, we are playing hardball over the low offer they have made.  Afterall we often sell players at ridiculously low offers.  Let's pray this time Rudkin and co see sense.  (I doubt it though).

But isn’t this exactly why we have so many players? We have a price, we don’t budge, they don’t move.  

[lgfualol]

Someone just fuvckin give us a bunch of cash for him already

[MPH]

1 hour ago, suffolk fox said:

Hopefully for once, we are playing hardball over the low offer they have made.  Afterall we often sell players at ridiculously low offers.  Let's pray this time Rudkin and co see sense.  (I doubt it though).

 

you must be on the wind up!

 

we have notoriously played hardball and it’s one of the main reasons we have been stuck with such dross- our asking price is often too high for players. This would be a good time for us NOT to play hardball- to help fund a new striker whilst we have an adequate GK replacement already..

[coolhandfox]

If the is a sniff of a chance of him going to United it’s unlikely he’s going to rush the West Ham deal.

[Lesta2014]

Dethroned Danny ward 

[whoareyaaa]

How can they agree personal terms if we haven’t accepted a bid 

[em9999]

Just now, whoareyaaa said:

How can they agree personal terms if we haven’t accepted a bid 

It's the way it works these days 

[JimJams]

Just now, whoareyaaa said:

How can they agree personal terms if we haven’t accepted a bid 

Same way they always do.

[st albans fox]

8 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

How can they agree personal terms if we haven’t accepted a bid 

Agents talking 

player not involved ……..

 

hypotheticals …..

[lanefox]

3 hours ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

I can see us closing out 2 or 3 deals over the next 48/72 hours, my prediction would be Mepham, Brownhill and Kone, whilst I also think over the next 3/4 days we see the departure of Mads and Bilal. 

We don't do work on Saturdays or Sundays so you're timescale is correct , those days don't exist to Lord Rudkin and he'll have to have another holiday now the Coady deal is done 

Edited 2 August 2025 by lanefox

[Nick]

25 million. Meet it or off you ****.

[Muzzy_no7]

3 hours ago, FrankieADZ said:

 

Got a ridiculous fee for Kudus and a stupendous amount for Declan Rice previously but faffing over paying the right amount for a key position they’ve known they needed to sort for a while.