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« Reply #64110 on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 10:04:15 » |
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The thing with Kovar is if you google Kovar mistakes you can find reels of his errors costing Man Utd, Sparta Prague and Bayer Leverkusen goals in games (ingoring his several errors when with us), but he seems to do enough in the rest of the games to still be considered a decent keeper.
I guess he is a bit like Calamity James, always looked weak for Liverpool/England/West Ham etc but he still managed more than 50 England caps yet never ever looked solid.
These coaches/managers/scouts must be able to see something in Kovar to keep getting transfers to big clubs.
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« Reply #64111 on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 10:51:29 » |
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Matej Kova wasn't ready when he was with us. That simple. I'm not surprised he was a lot better than he showed, I am surprised he's not a lower league keeper.
Adebayo is more of a shock to me. As was Jack Stephens to be honest, despite his successful loan.
He’s Southampton captain now and just signed another new contract. He’s done alright for himself hasnt he |
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« Reply #64112 on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 11:12:02 » |
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The thing with Kovar is if you google Kovar mistakes you can find reels of his errors costing Man Utd, Sparta Prague and Bayer Leverkusen goals in games (ingoring his several errors when with us), but he seems to do enough in the rest of the games to still be considered a decent keeper.
I guess he is a bit like Calamity James, always looked weak for Liverpool/England/West Ham etc but he still managed more than 50 England caps yet never ever looked solid.
These coaches/managers/scouts must be able to see something in Kovar to keep getting transfers to big clubs.
But is that not the same for all keepers. I could Google any keeper and there would be dozens of mistakes for each one. Mistakes are a given for all keepers especially with the way they are now told to play. It’s leadership/command/confidence, that ability to pull off the 1% saves and increasingly be an 11th outfield player that managers focus on now. Kovar probably ticks the 1% and good with feet boxes and they hope the other comes with experience. If you take Bycroft for example on the opposite side of the spectrum, he has none of those and still makes dozens of mistakes which is why he’s been binned off. There’s not a great deal of potential there. |
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« Reply #64113 on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 18:29:10 » |
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Rejected an offer from Cambridge for Smith apparently.
Hmm. He's one we really ought to keep hold of if promotion is the aim.
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« Reply #64114 on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 19:26:31 » |
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2+2 suggests that his omission from the friendly at Reading may have been linked to this. Was his head turned? Does someone like Harry Smith really see Cambridge as an upgrade? Must keep. It is moments like this I’m glad we have a manager with a spine.
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« Reply #64115 on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 20:02:51 » |
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I think everyone has their price!
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« Reply #64116 on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 20:19:35 » |
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2+2 suggests that his omission from the friendly at Reading may have been linked to this. Was his head turned? Does someone like Harry Smith really see Cambridge as an upgrade? Must keep. It is moments like this I’m glad we have a manager with a spine.
Moonraker confirmed it was a niggle and he’s expected back for the Chippenham match. |
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« Reply #64117 on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 22:09:17 » |
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I think everyone has their price!
Of course. But he's so key I don't think Cambridge will be close to meeting it. Can't see him getting sold behind Ollie's back either. |
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« Reply #64118 on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 22:23:35 » |
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Of course. But he's so key I don't think Cambridge will be close to meeting it.
Can't see him getting sold behind Ollie's back either.
£500k from Londoncentric L1 club and Morfuni would sell him regardless of Holloway in a flash, let’s not pretend otherwise. |
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« Reply #64119 on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 22:27:20 » |
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I actually don't think he would. I think Ollie is the only card he holds if he wants to cling on. Lose him in an unsactioned sale and he's toast.
Assuming Smith doesn't want to leave, and there's been no hint of that.
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« Reply #64120 on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 22:33:08 » |
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I actually don't think he would. I think Ollie is the only card he holds if he wants to cling on. Lose him in an unsactioned sale and he's toast.
Assuming Smith doesn't want to leave, and there's been no hint of that.
Disagree, Morfuni doesn’t care. He’s basically an absent owner, he barely attends games and therefore is pretty immune to the flak. Holloway is a useful deflection tool, but when it comes to money Morfuni would sell his soul to the devil and we’ve seen repeated evidence of that. |
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« Reply #64121 on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 23:07:04 » |
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Of course. But he's so key I don't think Cambridge will be close to meeting it.
His actual market value is quite low but he's priceless to us. |
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« Reply #64122 on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 23:09:12 » |
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I agree that he’s priceless to us and doubt Cambridge would have offered more than 75k
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« Reply #64123 on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 23:13:34 » |
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Yeah, I'd be amazed if anybody offered 100K for him, he's not worth that really but we should never accept that much either.
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