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Guglielmo Vicario

Im usually behind all the players in the team and rose tint their performances rather than over criticise, but I have been saying for a while he needs competition and/or replacing. It's been a characteristic of the club for 10-15 years now that we back a defacto number 1, and it just lulls them into patchy or mediocre form. Lloris could throw the ball in the goal twice in one week and still wouldn't be dropped because he had no competition. Now we have Kinsky who is apparently underwhelming, Austin who has been with us since birth without featuring prominantly and we sold our only prospect to Luton Town.

We need competition between all positions, you can't be allowed to become comfortable, and aside from his questionable abilities at times, Vicario has no challengers for the shirt.
 
billyiddo said:
Teams generally don't drop their first choice GK in those instances
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Agree in general that most teams won’t drop their keeper unless they’ve had a prolonged period of bad form. We’ve reached that point with Vicario now.

Arsenal were ruthless with Ramsdale who most Arsenal fans liked despite making some mistakes penultimate season with them, they went out and signed an upgrade in Raya and they haven’t looked back nor been forced to drop him ever since.
 
SteveAWOL said:
Who’d have thought that years of speculating on cheap(ish) youngsters from lesser leagues (in the vain hope that one of them is eventually going to develop into a Modric level superstar) instead of using that new stadium revenue to splash out on PL proven players (who’d immediately improve the first team) would put us into a negative spiral that spans across multiple managers!
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Those are our best buys. Splashing money on someone are our worst buys. It's all about the DoF.
 
Jurgen the German said:
Agree in general that most teams won’t drop their keeper unless they’ve had a prolonged period of bad form. We’ve reached that point with Vicario now.

Arsenal were ruthless with Ramsdale who most Arsenal fans liked despite making some mistakes penultimate season with them, they went out and signed an upgrade in Raya and they haven’t looked back nor been forced to drop him ever since.
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The difference there is that they signed a genuine replacement before dropping him - they didn't chuck whoever the reserve GK was at that time in. Rumours would suggest we're at that point now
 
Lemonade Money said:
No way are we in this position because of Vicario. Gotta have a spacegoat I suppose.
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It's true but, at the same time, he could definitely be improved upon. Whether he can be improved upon for the kind of money we seemed to be willing to spend is another matter though.

Crux of the matter is whether the rumors that he wants to go back to Italy are true. If he does, it's best to let him go, in my opinion.
 
Lemonade Money said:
No way are we in this position because of Vicario. Gotta have a spacegoat I suppose.
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We are in this position for lots of reasons. But I’m afraid some of the blame is shouldered by VIc. Good goalkeepers should be starting team’s attacks. VIc is simply not good enough in that respect. He doesn’t move the ball fast enough and his decision making with the ball at his feet is often poor imho. That said he didn’t deserve the booing earlier this season.
 
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