Mads Hermansen sold to West Ham - Official

[Clever Fox]

5 hours ago, boosmanana said:

There's not a single aspect of Stolarczyk's game that is better than Hermansen's

Not true, He commands his area much better than Mads ever did and he was playing in front of a well Coached team. 

Unlike the team Jakub has to play behind.

[moore_94]

38 minutes ago, Clever Fox said:

Not true, He commands his area much better than Mads ever did and he was playing in front of a well Coached team. 

Unlike the team Jakub has to play behind.

He might have done so earlier in the season but that has also gone to absolute sh!t

 

I cannot remember the last time I saw him properly coming off his line and convincingly winning the ball, butter fingers or flaps at it

[CPepFox]

3 hours ago, moore_94 said:

He might have done so earlier in the season but that has also gone to absolute sh!t

 

I cannot remember the last time I saw him properly coming off his line and convincingly winning the ball, butter fingers or flaps at it

Hmmmm, might that be a result of manager??? Seems to me most of our club has lost skill this season... we aren't proper, whether stamina, endurance, touch, judgment, control or pace... at some point fingers must point at managers...

[Jon the Hat]

I like Mads, and I hope if he goes to Spurs he gets some game time and shows what he can do.  West Ham are as mental as us squad wise.

[LCFCJohn]

As soon as I saw @Clever Fox’s post I smiled knowing it would get people scrambling 

 

Many football fans and many on here seem unable to apply critical thinking. Everything is one extreme or the other. Each player is either a £40mill star or non-league. Case in point, the two GK’s under discussion. 
 

There are quite clearly extreme extenuating circumstances that are affecting Stolarcryk (coaching, team in front of him etc) that Hermansen had a completely, off the charts, better hand dealt to him. As such, it makes it hard to compare at all in my option.

 

Remember though, all of you who simultaneously bemoan how Iverson is doing at Preston whilst noshing Maresca off, who did Maresca see more in? 
 

How much better would we have done on the goalkeeping front if Hermansen was with us this season? I don’t know. I don’t honestly think you’d see much difference. He was unable to command his area and gave goals away due to his playing out. But he didn’t do this palming away and spilling shots thing. Ultimately, I put what is going on with Stolarcryk down to him being rock bottom with his confidence and in a bad place mentally in this team. Mental strength was hardly a strength of Hermansen’s so I feel he would also have struggled behind this team, under this manager, as would most keepers. 
 

None of this is a defence of Stolarcryk and his for by the way, as I know there are many policing that on this forum . Just applying balance.

[The Doctor]

11 hours ago, Fox92 said:

He has also made the most mistakes leading to goals in the division. Weird how people miss that out but thanks to Sky for bringing it up prior to the WBA game.

and all bar one of those has come since the start of December. August - October, the one mistake v Preston where he tried to sweep because Vestegaard and Thomas had gone AWOL aside, he was looking a cut above at this level, and was statistically one of the best keepers in the division. What we are seeing is much the same as Hermansen second half of last season - a keeper rushed back from a big injury too quickly and making mistakes because the athleticism isn't there. It was bad management when it was Hermansen (Stolarcyk had been an adequate deputy) and it's bad management now because our alternatives are a grandad in Begovic or Vietes, who I'm not entirely sure exists.

[Tommy Fresh]

46 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

and all bar one of those has come since the start of December. August - October, the one mistake v Preston where he tried to sweep because Vestegaard and Thomas had gone AWOL aside, he was looking a cut above at this level, and was statistically one of the best keepers in the division. What we are seeing is much the same as Hermansen second half of last season - a keeper rushed back from a big injury too quickly and making mistakes because the athleticism isn't there. It was bad management when it was Hermansen (Stolarcyk had been an adequate deputy) and it's bad management now because our alternatives are a grandad in Begovic or Vietes, who I'm not entirely sure exists.

Cost us a goal against Oxford if I remember correctly 

[Tommy Fresh]

50 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

As soon as I saw @Clever Fox’s post I smiled knowing it would get people scrambling 

 

Many football fans and many on here seem unable to apply critical thinking. Everything is one extreme or the other. Each player is either a £40mill star or non-league. Case in point, the two GK’s under discussion. 
 

There are quite clearly extreme extenuating circumstances that are affecting Stolarcryk (coaching, team in front of him etc) that Hermansen had a completely, off the charts, better hand dealt to him. As such, it makes it hard to compare at all in my option.

 

Remember though, all of you who simultaneously bemoan how Iverson is doing at Preston whilst noshing Maresca off, who did Maresca see more in? 
 

How much better would we have done on the goalkeeping front if Hermansen was with us this season? I don’t know. I don’t honestly think you’d see much difference. He was unable to command his area and gave goals away due to his playing out. But he didn’t do this palming away and spilling shots thing. Ultimately, I put what is going on with Stolarcryk down to him being rock bottom with his confidence and in a bad place mentally in this team. Mental strength was hardly a strength of Hermansen’s so I feel he would also have struggled behind this team, under this manager, as would most keepers. 
 

None of this is a defence of Stolarcryk and his for by the way, as I know there are many policing that on this forum . Just applying balance.

Surely you can't apply critical thinking either then, as you seem to think anyone who criticises him thinks he's a non league player. 

[The Doctor]

58 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Cost us a goal against Oxford if I remember correctly 

the first one? maybe this is just the keepers union in me but I'd be hard pressed to call that his mistake. It's a really well hit stinging shot which bounces in front of him, very difficult to hold. He's pushed it wide - the most it comes down to him is potentially shoveling it behind him for a corner or further wide, but that's very difficult because of that last second bounce and most keepers would have done the same thing he did - and it's then the fact that Choudhury at right back doesn't even attempt to get back into the box that leaves a free cut back, as well as Vestegaard and Okoli having the reaction speeds of slothes that gives the tap in

[Tommy Fresh]

1 minute ago, The Doctor said:

the first one? maybe this is just the keepers union in me but I'd be hard pressed to call that his mistake. It's a really well hit stinging shot which bounces in front of him, very difficult to hold. He's pushed it wide - the most it comes down to him is potentially shoveling it behind him for a corner or further wide, but that's very difficult because of that last second bounce and most keepers would have done the same thing he did - and it's then the fact that Choudhury at right back doesn't even attempt to get back into the box that leaves a free cut back, as well as Vestegaard and Okoli having the reaction speeds of slothes that gives the tap in

Agree to disagree on that goal then as I think it's poor, not as obvious as say the Wrexham one but I still think a better keeper deals with it and they don't score. I'm not denying it's shit defending either, the defence including Stolarczyk have been pretty suspect as a group. 

[LCFCJohn]

2 hours ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Surely you can't apply critical thinking either then, as you seem to think anyone who criticises him thinks he's a non league player. 

A bit of exaggeration does not equal lack of critical thinking.

 

The point being, even if not everyone put a label on a player (league 1, none league etc), the common theme seems to be either great or crap and a lack of people seem to be able to consider that a player could either be playing crap due to circumstances or that it just doesn’t work at a particular club in some cases. 

[Clever Fox]

9 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

As soon as I saw @Clever Fox’s post I smiled knowing it would get people scrambling 

 

Many football fans and many on here seem unable to apply critical thinking. Everything is one extreme or the other. Each player is either a £40mill star or non-league. Case in point, the two GK’s under discussion. 
 

There are quite clearly extreme extenuating circumstances that are affecting Stolarcryk (coaching, team in front of him etc) that Hermansen had a completely, off the charts, better hand dealt to him. As such, it makes it hard to compare at all in my option.

 

Remember though, all of you who simultaneously bemoan how Iverson is doing at Preston whilst noshing Maresca off, who did Maresca see more in? 
 

How much better would we have done on the goalkeeping front if Hermansen was with us this season? I don’t know. I don’t honestly think you’d see much difference. He was unable to command his area and gave goals away due to his playing out. But he didn’t do this palming away and spilling shots thing. Ultimately, I put what is going on with Stolarcryk down to him being rock bottom with his confidence and in a bad place mentally in this team. Mental strength was hardly a strength of Hermansen’s so I feel he would also have struggled behind this team, under this manager, as would most keepers. 
 

None of this is a defence of Stolarcryk and his for by the way, as I know there are many policing that on this forum . Just applying balance.

That's all fair and honest comment.

[tylesta]

7 hours ago, The Doctor said:

the first one? maybe this is just the keepers union in me but I'd be hard pressed to call that his mistake. It's a really well hit stinging shot which bounces in front of him, very difficult to hold. He's pushed it wide - the most it comes down to him is potentially shoveling it behind him for a corner or further wide, but that's very difficult because of that last second bounce and most keepers would have done the same thing he did - and it's then the fact that Choudhury at right back doesn't even attempt to get back into the box that leaves a free cut back, as well as Vestegaard and Okoli having the reaction speeds of slothes that gives the tap in

A stinging shot he could oc easily put behind for a corner he surely could see the player following up as the shit is coming in well the 2 of them following up

[The Doctor]

1 hour ago, tylesta said:

A stinging shot he could oc easily put behind for a corner he surely could see the player following up as the shit is coming in well the 2 of them following up

eh, not really. The way it bounces makes it difficult to then still get the tip round on it, it span up towards his shoulder. As a keeper I'm putting the blame on that one on Choudhury, the right back who's still 10 yards outside the box when the goal goes in, having made zero attempts to track his runner

[Ian Nacho]

Looked to be MOTM yesterday. Glad he's finally getting a chance to show what he can do. 

[Rubbersoul]

He’s a good keeper. I think there’s just be a number of things go wrong for him recently. 

[davieG]

32 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

Looked to be MOTM yesterday. Glad he's finally getting a chance to show what he can do. 

Scared back into form at the thought of coming back to us.

[funkyrobot]

1 hour ago, Ian Nacho said:

Looked to be MOTM yesterday. Glad he's finally getting a chance to show what he can do. 

A true test will come against a team that uses long throws, corners and set pieces more than a lightweight Burnley do. 

[st albans fox]

2 hours ago, Ian Nacho said:

Looked to be MOTM yesterday. Glad he's finally getting a chance to show what he can do. 

MOTD showed 1 save 

the rest of the team must have been pretty poor!

[Bert]

On 22/01/2026 at 17:19, boosmanana said:

There's not a single aspect of Stolarczyk's game that is better than Hermansen's

Well he’s better at letting goals in 

[Cincinnati Fox]

Average PL Gk, nothing special but deserve better than us. Hope West Ham can send forest down.

[filthyfox]

2nd relegation in 2 seasons....

Championship Keeper at best

[moore_94]

17 minutes ago, filthyfox said:

2nd relegation in 2 seasons....

Championship Keeper at best

Better than any keeper we will have in probably the next 5 years at least

[filthyfox]

4 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

Better than any keeper we will have in probably the next 5 years at least

...no comment.

Our nouse between the sticks is about as good as our nouse up front

[Stadt]

28 minutes ago, filthyfox said:

2nd relegation in 2 seasons....

Championship Keeper at best

He almost single handedly kept us in games before getting injured in 24/25