West Ham United to sign experienced goalkeeper Roberto

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Pearces_Left_Foot

https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2019/may/31-may/west-ham-united-sign-experienced-goalkeeper-roberto

New goal keeper !!!

Yeoldhammer

we signed a keeper Roberto ?

OldCastleSwift

Well that was massively under the radar

Pearces_Left_Foot

Seems like a decent back up for Fab and on a free aswell

MrsGrey

:nonono:

Yeoldhammer

No one had an inkling this guy was coming in, out of nowhere keeper situation sorted I guess.

MrsGrey

I'm liking their style :thumbsup:

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ASLEFshrugged

Roberto Jimenez Gago, very much an Adrian replacement as he didn't play in the La Liga last season but was between the sticks for Espanyol's cup games (they got to the quarters).

OldCastleSwift

ASLEFshrugged said:

Roberto Jimenez Gago, very much an Adrian replacement as he didn't play in the La Liga last season but was between the sticks for Espanyol's cup games (they got to the quarters).

Almost like for like. Decent pedigree and I suspect he's in less than the £50k that Adrian was rumoured to be on, so a very sensible deal.

McHammer

Who's gonna tell young Jack?

OldCastleSwift

Good looking lad, too. I mean, he's no Marco Borriello, but not many are

Ravel49

In other GK related news, Rob Green has announced his retirement.

Greeno

:bowdown:

MrsGrey

England's Best.

Colchester_Iron

Thought that was Jussi?

Colchester_Iron

Finland's best :doh:

BubblesNeverDies

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Almost like for like. Decent pedigree and I suspect he's in less than the £50k that Adrian was rumoured to be on, so a very sensible deal.

But will he have the same personality as Adrian :hmm:
Only time will tell, but let's hope we take him to our hearts as we did Adrian and he responds to it. :scarf:

Lukerz

Two keepers both 33. We’re going to need one for the future in the next year or two.

MrsGrey

Lukerz said:

Two keepers both 33. We’re going to need one for the future in the next year or two.

Which may explain why we signed him for 2 years.

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Lukerz

Like Nathan Trott?

steve

Good goalkeepers go on forever :thumbsup:

ASLEFshrugged

Speroni is leaving Palace this summer aged 40. It's not as if keepers have to run box-to- box, Parkes' knees were so bad he could hardly train and he needed Mad Dog to take goal kicks but he was still a quality keeper.

Load of nonsense.

chicagohammer

I think that Shilton was 42 before he finally hung up his gloves, got to respect that..

Cuz1

Dave beasant was sub for Kidderminster at age of 56 sure he played into his late forties too

Lukerz

Yeah it’s not so much the age it’s the quality of the keeping.

Speroni has been hopeless for ages.

IronHerb

No Lukerz, that was Hennessey.