Spurs plan £6m bid to fix age-old problem - but is he the right choice?
by Mr Comfort on April 14th, 2008
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It seems that most Tottenham fans are in agreement that a new keeper should be highest up on the summer transfer target list. And Juande Ramos appears to have set his sights on another possible replacement for Robbo.
Tottenham are preparing to launch a £6m bid for Rangers goalkeeper Alan McGregor (The Mail).
After many years in the shade McGregor is now showing his class as Rangers number one shot stopper - his superb displays in the UEFA Cup will have been noted by the Spanish supremo at White Hart Lane. However, I would imagine Rangers will try their best not to let the Edinburgh-born 26-year-old go the way of Alan Hutton and, after all, Walter Smith’s side can offer the keeper Champions League football next season.
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Tagged Under: Premier League, Rangers FC, rumours, tottenham
Big red - April 14th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
McGregor is the best keeper playing in Scotland. Right enough there is no real competition. Boruc is a clown. He has thrown the title with his antics and over confidence.
McGregor is ultra reliable, Boruc makes terrible errors.
McGregor would be no.1 if he was English.
Great signing if it comes off. However i think you’d have to up that offer!
davspurs - April 14th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
i would go for the psv keeper with his knees up in the air wen he jumps think how many players he would get injured or jaskilinen froom bolton on a free or foster and nani for sulky berbey and is agent
ben Hopkinson - April 15th, 2008 at 7:57 am
fuk this is pathetic, we dont even need a new keeper, the only reason people think this is because one day someone decided they would bag robbo and then everyone in the press decided they would join on…he is a good keeper and we wont get better, if we get a new one then it would take about half a season before you are all swayed by the press and demand another!
Tom - April 15th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Sorry Ben Hopkinson, but that sort of deluded view of Robbo is exactly the reason why he shouldn’t be number one. Even when he lets in goal after goal he still gets large support from a lot of the Tottenham crowd. I’ve never known a single player to be chanted at WHL so much when he is playing so poorly. Yet somehow he lacks confidence?! The bloke had a really good first season, but has been on a slippery slope ever since. He refuses to/can’t catch it, even when he does make a ‘world-class’ stop he palms it straight into the path of an opposition player, and his inability to command his area affects the defence as a whole. He’s turned into another Kasey Keller!!
This Rangers bloke might not be the right man for us, but he can’t be any worse than Robinson.
Thomas Rooney - April 15th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Seems Ramos enjoys looking north of the border - Hutton has been a good buy so think this guy could help Spurs - he’s a solid keeper. Is there a Scottish link in Ramos’ backroom staff?
Sean - April 15th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Tom - you are correctly, but only, as Ben rightly states, because Robbo lost him confidence because he was absolutely and continuously slaughtered by the hordes of over-paid press muppets, for one very simple, er, accident (I struggle to even call it a mistake - it could have happened to anyone and was a freak occurrence). Yours is a cyclical argument!
My personal opinion is that Robbo was harmed more by being made an automatic first choice no matter his form. Not anything personally against Cerny, but I don’t really think he was ever good enough to be second choice at a club aspiring for Champs League - judging by Jol’s reluctance to play him, he agreed.
The solution is not to get rid of Robbo, it is to get real genuine competition and play the one in form - Ramos has stated that his intention is to have at least two keepers capable of competing for the jersey, and play the one who deserves it.
If Robbo is prepared to stay under those terms, and risk long spells on the bench, I, for one, would like him to stay - I definitely believe he would have benefitted from some time out to recover his confidence as his high-profile blunders (and blunders they were).
Stuart - April 15th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Robbo is one of the best keepers around for instinct saves and shot-stopping, but his speed off the line, coming to the ball, catching and general positioning leave a lot to be desired. He’s been low on confidence for ages now, and it just doesn’t seem to be returning.
MAT-GA - April 15th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Robbo should be at the lane next season, but only as cover for new keeper. My preffered choice would be Kameni, watched him a few times in La Liga and he looks like a monster in the net. But the only downfall for Kameni is when the Afircan Nations come around. The keeper I would realy want at the lane is sunderlands Craig Gordan. But with the huge transfer fee they paid you would have to look about 20 Million to get him and that is just money we could put to better use.
Tom - April 15th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Sean - As I stated, Robbo has no reason to have low confidence, he has had the full support of the WHL faithful, the Park Lane especially, throughout his bad times, yet hasn’t improved but got worse.
As for getting in a keeper to challenge him and keeping 2 stoppers who both want to be number one, where has that ever worked?
Stuart - Spot on.
Acton_Yid - April 15th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Would go for Marco Amelia of Livorno myself…understudy to Buffon and next in line to Italy’s No. 1 shirt throne…
Acton_Yid - April 15th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Kameni too eccentric…bit like the old clown that was Barthez…but then again, the greatest goalkeepers were always a little bit mad…
dave - April 15th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
why do you think kamenis eccentric? have you even watched him? or are you assuming that because hes african?
Ed - April 15th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
So what if the crowd support him, Robbo lost confidence because the press didn’t! Plus the crowd only help for half the season (i.e. home games!). Any keeper who gets slated that much would lose confidence and that is why he doesn’t come for crosses, doesn’t come off his line etc because any error will be magnified a thousand times by the press!
Hopefully he will have a few good games at start of next season and the press will love him again and we can build from there.
To be honest any keeper we sign could be a success or a flop you just never know and saying that a keeper whose had a few good games you saw is ‘the answer’ is stupid!
What we need is King back and a fresh start to next season and we can work from there, fingers crossed for a few low profile and winnable games at the start of the season or failing that a high profile game Robinson can do well in and then a few low key games and we’ll be fine.
another Singapore spurs fan - April 15th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
oooh my god ! any goalkeeper is fine man ! whoever thinks that robbo is yet to perform his best,call him to save it and pack up and go to MK DONs man or whatevery club is interested in him, his days is over man !
dotsie - April 15th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Robinson’s weaknesses were highlighted and exploited during the last world cup. I would say it was one of the main reasons England performed so poorly during the campaign. Since then at club level, he has been in a downward spiral and hasn’t really picked it up. Spurs can’t wait around any longer to find out if he can improve that confidence or those deficiencies.
Ray - April 16th, 2008 at 10:17 am
COME ON , WHO EVER SAYS THAT ROBBO IS A GOOD GOALIE DOES NO NOTHING ABOUT GOALIES. HE NEVER COMES OUT FOR CROSSES NEVER CATCHES THE BALL MOST OF THE TIMES HE DROPS IT, AND HE CAN’T EVEN ORGANIZE THE DEFENCE WALL WHEN A FREEKICK IS TAKEN. UNLESS RAMOS GETS AN EXPERIENCE GOALIE WE WILL BE WERE WE ARE.AND RAMOS KNOWS THAT IS OUR WEAKEST POINT BECAUSE HE WANTS TO GET TWO GOALIES.