https://www.realmadrid.com/en/news/2018/08/official-announcement-thibaut-courtois shit thread title, mods can change it once we find a cool one Great signing! edit: Changed the title to "Guardian of the Galacticos: Welcome Thibaut Courtois
Thibaut Courtois individual awards:2011 Belgian GK of the Year2012/13 La Liga GK of the Season2012/13 Liga Zamora Trophy2013/14 Liga Zamora Trophy2013/14 UCL Team of the Season2016/17 EPL Golden Glove2018 World Cup Golden Glove pic.twitter.com/wX1TuvXq9C— Real Madrid Stats (@RMadrid_Stats) August 8, 2018
👋 Bienvenido al @RealMadrid, @thibautcourtois!#WelcomeCourtois| #HalaMadrid pic.twitter.com/hHqzcomSQi— Real Madrid C.F. (@realmadrid) August 8, 2018
This is a great signing for a great price given the current market. Though I wish it was a striker at least, but well, it's something to be happy about in this transfer window I guess. Only sad thing would be that Keylor would now be the back-up. Dude was an amazing person and a fighter.
Given his height and abilities, I expect him to be our goalkeeper for well over 6 years. Absolute steal. The goalkeeper market will be absolutely ridiculous by the time we have to buy one again.
Completely ridiculous transfer. Got the goalkeeper we wanted for about 1/3rd of the going rate for top club goalkeepers right now.
Even Napoli paid 35 ME for 21 year old Meret. Crazy we got the best GK from WC who has won La Liga and EPL for the same price.
Chelsea’s tweet suggests the Kovacic deal was wrapped around this deal also, so that might factor into the price for Courtois for a full view of the price.
Yea. Few journos Chelsea signed Kepa for a big fee 'cos getting Kova meant they didn't need to spend money on a midfielder. Made Courtois deal easier.
Great deal for the club. Courtois is a steal for that fee in the current market. Top goalkeeper. On a personal level, I'm really excited that I get to see a fellow Belgian at Real Madrid. Last one was Fernand Goyvaerts, I believe (1965-1967).
Huge respect for Navas but I can't remember the last time we had a GK we could rely on for aerial play and dominance. And he's young. And cheap. And Atleti fans will hate this. What's not to like? Navas is getting older. We needed this.
I'm happy for what Navas accomplished with us, and im sure he will likely go down as the best Costa Rican ever, perhaps the most accomplished Central American ever. However, it's not like he had a worldy of a season either. I recall he was doing pretty poorly in that first half of the season when Ronaldo was off. I also recall him putting a few terrible performances i.e. the home leg against Juventus. This wasn't an absolutely necessary transfer, but better to upgrade early than to wait for it to become a serious problem.
WELCOME COURTOIS!!! WHAT.A.STEAL! Now... if only we could get a REAL striker and make sure Modric stays or else...