Yellow Tree wrote:Really would love to see pokey back, however I feel this is highly unlikely! Does any1 think lingy may consider going after another clubs first choice keeper and therefor spending some of the funds from Bobby's transfer?
I know lingy spoke about doing everything possible to replace Eunan with someone of equal quality,
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so will he try to replace bobby the same? (will be very difficult I know!) or are we going to have to rely on the free bee market? I just feel the replacements mentioned so far that would be quality replacements on a free (Pokey & James) are way out of our reach!
It would all depend on motive for DJ. Poke I don't know what his plans are in terms of location. I remember chatting to his Dad when he was on loan last time and he said MP had a place in Paignton and he loved it down there. Obviously that was 2 years ago and circumstances change.
I've said it already with regard to DJ but if money was his motive he would have never signed for Bristol City. Both Sunderland and Celtic offered him contracts when he left Portsmouth but he wanted to play nearer to his home in Exeter. He was on good money at Bristol city but now at 41 IF he wants to continue playing and IF location is such a key thing then he has to be realistic about his choices.
I don't think anyone in the Championship now would sign DJ as a first choice keeper and I'm not sure he'd bother putting all the work in to be a backup keeper at this stage of his career. You then look at Yeovil as a possible but from what I understand they have either signed or very close to signing Chris Weale so that then rules them out. You then look at maybe someone like Bournemouth and their keeper just got their player of the year, they also have 2 keepers under contract still.
so then you look to League 2 and Exeter City would be the obvious one but they have just signed a keeper to be backup to Krysiak (LOL @ them), Bristol Rovers have big Bev who finished the season well and is under contract, Plymouth have Jake Cole as their number one keeper and a young lad they like as backup, so the only team in the South West after a first choice keeper within DJ's location boundaries is us. So IF he wants to continue playing for a year or two and location is still more important than money (he's made his fair share over the last 20 years anyway!) then suddenly it doesn't seem so ridiculous as a short term solution for a year possibly 2.
Just looking through the other keepers on that list fills me with little hope unless Ling has soemthing up his sleeve like he did with Olejnik, maybe Alan McGregor this time! LOL, other option of course is maybe re-investing some of the transfer money to buy a keeper but again you have to look at quality keepers that we could afford and crucially would want to come here over their current club. A lot harder than signing somebody without a club.
