A good defense won’t help him cover his near post better or that Eiffel Tower size gap between his legs.
Ridiculous decision to buy him in the first place....I feel like for a club like Madrid it would have been so easy to find a World Class keeper over the past 3/4 seasons because quite a few emerged: Alisson/Kepa/Ederson/De Gea/Lloris/Handanovic/Donnaruma.....we had the chance to sign at least 2/3 from this list. This makes me annoyed Lunin left....now would have been the time to give him his chance.
Our scouting is the worse... Is Lunin even a starter by now? Navas came because he had a fantastic World cup in 2014 and was the best keeper in La liga that year. We only react ..but never ahead of the curve.
Usually you'd get a goal keeper who on occasions wins you games. We on the contrary have a goal keeper who makes us lose games. If he doesn't manage to sort his shit out within next 2-3 games, he has to hit the bench. He doesn't have the confidence, the defence will also naturally react to even worse defending because they have zero confidence he's saving anything going on target.
I think there's always an explanation to what happens. Courtois is a good Goalkeeper but he seems to not fit us, that's all. He was very good at AM because they park the bus. When you park the bus, you get less screwed by counters, and so less chances for your GK to be in 1vs1. Box is also more frequently filled with your [very aggressive] players, so less chances to get crucified at point blank range. Courtois had the same flaws but it was not showing as much as now. You will tell me that Belgium does not park the bus, true, but hey, like a broken clock that is right twice a day, he had one awesome tournament in which he was good at everything, and that's it.
Hugo Lloris was outstanding for France through out the WC until that blunder in the final. Courtois was a second thought.
That would be the worst insult ever. I'm not even entertain the idea. Just think ... we got this kid on loan from PSG because Navas is now # 1 at PSG. We sold Navas to PSG to make Courtois feels more secure. This club would officially be a laughing stock when ZZ benches Courtois for Areola.
We need those Iker/Keylor type goalies. Not necessarily the commanding type but with lightning reflexes and agility. Those seem to suite us more.
I'm not one to hide when things aren't going like I expected. As I mentioned before, I really believed Courtois was a superb transfer at the time for - in short - two reasons. I thought he was a world class GK (he definitely was in the discussion for the best when he was at Atleti). I wasn't as high on Navas as some here are. Courtois's game for us last year was, well, not ideal. But I believed that was also partly due to the uncertainty of the nr. 1 spot. So I gave him the benefit of the doubt, also because Navas wasn't all that either. However, this year - while still short - he simply is not playing good enough. It's super strange, he's letting balls in that I believe should be his 100%. Sure, that first PSG goal for instance was Carvajal being a dummy and Varane (oh Varane..) being asleep yet again, but that Di Maria shot was in his corner. It should have been saved IMO, very important moment in the game as well to concede. And he's had a couple of those moments. I don't know, I still believe we can make this work, but he needs to significantly step up his game. We need his best game back. Just to make one thing clear: I didn't follow him too much at Chelsea, so no idea whether his form dropped substantially there. Having said the above, I'm still behind point number 2. Navas is a very good GK, a class act, a fan and team favourite, but has had some bizarre moments as well during crucial games (Bayern and Juve come to mind immediately, but they're definitely not the only ones). It's just that he's such a likeable character and the club did try to replace him almost every season (not very classy from our otherwise quite classy club), so he has that going for him. In short: we made a choice, we need to stick with it now and hope Courtois wakes up and steps up his game (and shuts his arrogant mouth for once). The talent is there of course, he can still be a succes but needs to perform now and this season.
Ok. He is here...whether he sucks or not. He is here So what is the exit strategy? How long do we give him? Who would replace him?
Rewatching the PSG game I noticed that on their first goal when Di Maria toe poked the ball in the near post Courtois literally closed his eyes and fluffed his arms, he had no idea where the ball was, as if he was scared of getting hit by the ball, now I’m no GK expert but this can’t be normal. Winter lol
I say give the PSG keeper a shot..still can't believe he was hanging out with his boys after they trashed us, but give him a shot. See if he is any good. If not, hit the market. We can't stay like this
We should hire the goalkeeper that got lobbed and then ran out clutching the air outside of his box leaving the goal wide open. That's the guy that's all the rage nowadays.
Courtois will make noise if he isn’t the #1 and he’s here for family reasons. Don’t see him leaving anytime soon. I’ll never understand the rush to sign this guy, he was pretty underwhelming at Chelsea.
We were linked to Courtois for ages and reached out to him when he was injured at Chelsea. Flo was buying him regardless of WC.
Finally, Courtois just had a clean sheet. But damn, it took a while... 🗓️ 3rd February 2019: Real Madrid 3-0 AlavesSince then...3-12-11-22-10-11-44-10-13-21-31-31-12-23-20-3Thibaut Courtois has not kept a clean sheet since 3rd February for Real Madrid 😳 pic.twitter.com/eE2Im66BnE— kwiff (@KwiffOfficial) September 19, 2019
LOL Same here!!! I was about to throw something at the TV lol !!! so happy it was offside, having said that, his ability to deal with low balls really has me worried, the guy is as good as useless on the ground.