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Luca Gunter

robp135 said:
He’s meant to be an ever better prospect than Josh Keeley who was on loan in L1 at the same age.
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I'd read Keeley was marginally the better, but we screwed up his homegrown status, so he was never going to claim one of our 17 overseas spots. I watched him and few games at Orient when he was there with Donely and he looked decent

I've heard good things about Gunter too though
 
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Gutter Boy said:
I'd read Keeley was marginally the better, but we screwed up his homegrown status, so he was never going to claim one of our 17 overseas spots. I watched him and few games at Orient when he was there with Donely and he looked decent

I've heard good things about Gunter too though
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Nothing was screwed up. He signed at 19.
 
Gutter Boy said:
I'd read Keeley was marginally the better, but we screwed up his homegrown status, so he was never going to claim one of our 17 overseas spots. I watched him and few games at Orient when he was there with Donely and he looked decent

I've heard good things about Gunter too though
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He arrived from St Pat’s at 19, meaning he was already too old to ever qualify as homegrown under Premier League or UEFA rules (you need three years before turning 21). Gunter, having come through the academy, ticked every single club-trained box.

I think Keeley showed the higher ceiling and handled senior football far better—both at Barnet and Orient alongside Donley. Unless a keeper is undisputed number one material (Keeley was good, not that good though), burning one of our 17 overseas slots on a backup or developmental keeper made zero sense.

The registration issue settled it before his ability ever came into play, which is a shame
 
MadSpurs said:
He arrived from St Pat’s at 19, meaning he was already too old to ever qualify as homegrown under Premier League or UEFA rules (you need three years before turning 21). Gunter, having come through the academy, ticked every single club-trained box.

I think Keeley showed the higher ceiling and handled senior football far better—both at Barnet and Orient alongside Donley. Unless a keeper is undisputed number one material (Keeley was good, not that good though), burning one of our 17 overseas slots on a backup or developmental keeper made zero sense.

The registration issue settled it before his ability ever came into play, which is a shame
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He’s also been dropped by Luton this season.
 
We have aspirations about being in UEFA comps next season and Austin and Gunter are club trained along with Archie and Bergval. So as Gunter will be 22 then, it might make sense for us to assess him this season and working out whether he's worthy of taking that 4th club trained slot.

Most likely Dubravka had the flu or some short term illness this weekend so we had little choice but to promote Gunter.
 
robp135 said:
Nothing was screwed up. He signed at 19.
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Yeah, but we could have brought him in a bit earlier and enabled him to do the full 3 seasons. There's almost no point taking foreign kids after they turn 19 now, you have to jump earlier, like we then learned to do with Bergvall and Vuskovic
 
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