Bladeinleeds
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The whole reason Man U r after the Inter keeper is because he's excellent with his feet. If u r playing 3 at the back having a keeper who is a footballer opens up more options and effectively means you have 11 outfield players
Yeah, I understand the logic
But you’re not asking the keeper to be Norwood - you’re asking him to be passable with the ball really. Not hard to get that level of passing from professionals in comparison to exceptional keeping skills. You can train passing
Just Having 11 outfielders… but having your keeper throwing the ball into the goal like bravo did seems a poor trade off to me.
I certainly wouldn’t trade an exceptional keeper because he’s poor with his feet and can’t beat the press or whatever they want him to do. Feels like that has an outsized significance from analysts compared to actually keeping the ball out of the net.
Obviously the ideal is someone like ederson or neuer who could do both.