Plays better when his position is under threat.

Apparently he might have to retire early according to Courtois. I know he should have kept his gob shut, but if that's true that would explain buying him then sticking him on the loan programme.

Also we are in a bit of a situation next summer, as the lad is wanted by Barca, we have to play him or almost certainly lose him.

I thought the latest rumours where that Barca were likely to go for Ter Stegen.

Yeah but no doubt they will try and snap up Courtois if there is a much of a hint he wants to go

comment by Arouna Jagielka oooh I wanna take ya, Heitinga Nikica come on pretty mama (U1308)
posted 48 minutes ago
comment by iCraft uGraft - God. (U1193)
posted 34 minutes ago
Begovic isn't all that. Cech hasn't been the same since his head injury, makes to many mistakes, though he was immense before. De Gea and Lloris are probably the top 2 in the League. That leaves Szczesny and Howard. Both of which I would say Mignolet is better than, even though his distribution is shocking.

===

And that is why he is not the best goalkeeper. You can't play for a team that like to play out from the back.....and have shocking distribution! You threw your own spanner into the works with that comment!
----------------------------------------------------------------------

No I didn't. Not once did I say he was definitively the best goalkeeper. You Everton fans have a real talent for selective reading.

You are at it again......where did I say anything about you rating him as the best?

Really!

And that is why he is not the best goalkeeper...You threw your own spanner into the works with that comment!

--

'At it again'. Have I ever even had a discussion with you before?

where did I say anything about you rating him as the best?

-----------

And that is why he is not the best goalkeeper...You threw your own spanner into the works with that comment!

Is where you strongly imply that I thought he was the best in the league. Otherwise, why would you feel the need to say 'that's why he's not the best goalkeeper'?

And I bet you rate Cech. Who is literally one of the worst players I have even seen with the ball at his feet. All he can do is kick is pretty far, and with a bit of accuracy. Mignolet is like a Messi-Pirlo hybrid compared to Cech on the ball.

I think you have issues here......

Strongly implied? I just said he is not the best goalkeeper. Then you go and try to choose for me who I think is the leagues best and pick a keeper you think has poor distribution.......honestly

Talk about reading what is not there

'Strongly implied? I just said he is not the best goalkeeper.'

There was no reason for you to say that unless there was some underlying point you were trying to make. So you were either making redundant statements or you thought I thought he was the best 'keeper.

------

'Then you go and try to choose for me who I think is the leagues best and pick a keeper you think has poor distribution'

I would like please for you to tell me where I choose the best goalkeeper for you?

And I wasn't -reading- what is not there. It's not hard to determine what you mean by the things you say. Your mind works in a fairly simplistic manner.

Stick with it here.

Here it goes, I said with poor distribution that Mingolet will never be a top keeper. You seem to think I said at some point between the lines that you said he was a top keeper......

Now, you still with me? You then try to put words in my mouth about another keeper being rated by me with poor distribution.

And you have the nerve to call me simple/silly/stupid........Sorry that s me reading words that are not here.

You say my mind works in "a fairly simplistic manner"

Well it is able to read what is written and process it....not read/believe something that is not written.

I've seen nothing to suggest that Mignolets disrtubution is any poorer than Cechs or De Gea's. Nothing. I can't imagine that many people watched Sunderland loads and I can't see why you'd be watching Liver...... oh.

comment by Robbing_Hoody - I taught Sterling to be a false 2 (U6374) posted 24 minutes ago
I've seen nothing to suggest that Mignolets disrtubution is any poorer than Cechs or De Gea's. Nothing. I can't imagine that many people watched Sunderland loads and I can't see why you'd be watching Liver...... oh.

==
Watch Liverpool! Phhhha!

This is the whole comment;

"comment by iCraft uGraft - God. (U1193)
posted 34 minutes ago
Begovic isn't all that. Cech hasn't been the same since his head injury, makes to many mistakes, though he was immense before. De Gea and Lloris are probably the top 2 in the League. That leaves Szczesny and Howard. Both of which I would say Mignolet is better than, even though his distribution is shocking.

===

And that is why he is not the best goalkeeper. You can't play for a team that like to play out from the back.....and have shocking distribution! You threw your own spanner into the works with that comment!"
----------------------

So... From that. What works am I throwing a spanner into? The works that Mignolet is the best keeper? Well it can't be that considering 2 inches up the page I said that he wasn't. Other than that there are no other 'works' that you could have been talking about. So why was this comment even made? You make no new points and offer nothing to the subject.

---------

"You then try to put words in my mouth about another keeper being rated by me with poor distribution."

I wasn't putting words in your mouth. 'I bet' was the key phrase here. But I take it that the point I made stood considering you dare not discuss it, nor have you said that you don't rate Cech, so I take it that you do.

----------------

"And you have the nerve to call me simple/silly/stupid........Sorry that s me reading words that are not here."

The word is there...the word is 'simplistic'.
--------------------

"Well it is able to read what is written and process it....not read/believe something that is not written."

So yeah...simplistic.

Two things you can be certain of here...

I said mingolet is not a good/top keeper as he is poor at distributing the ball.

The second is I have made no comment on any other keeper. You want to believe that I "rate" cech as I have not commented on any other goal keepers ability.

As for being afraid to discuss it....where you dig this assumption from?

And you insult my smarty-ness

I said mingolet is not a good/top keeper as he is poor at distributing the ball.
---------------------------

What occasions can you think of where his distribution has been poor?