I think both have proven they can do a capable job. Robinson has been having a good season. Early on he was having a little luck on top of that, and benefitted from Santini's ultra-defensive style. Now that things have evened out a little bit, he's facing a little more realistic challenges, but I think he's doing well. We saw Keller in the past, and he's done well in the limited time we've seen him this season, but really he hasn't played enough to get a true picture yet this season. I'm a Keller fan. He's my favorite goal keeper ever. IMHO, his shot stopping is superior to Robinson's, but Robinson's distribution is better. Honestly, this is an English team, and is starting an English keeper who has done well, so I don't really see the need to change goal keepers. As a personal matter, I'd prefer to see Keller, and I do think Keller is too good to sit the bench. Seeing him at Southampton just confirms my belief that he'd do very well at the Lane. But, Robinson was not brought in to sit the bench ... he's a legitimate England #1. Unless he does horribly and costs us several games, I see zero chance that Robinson is benched when healthy. Thankfully, Robinson has done well. -Digital
i, too, am a huge keller fan. but i simply don't see any criteria under which he should be starting. robinson is clearly spurs' keeper of the future. if both perform comparably, they're going to go with robinson. by most accounts, robinson has been better than keller. by no account has keller been clearly superior to robinson. in the past, keller has always appeared to feel that wherever he went, he could earn his way into the side. neil sullivan was certainly in fine form when keller came to white hart lane - and he earned his way in. just get down to work, and let the creme rise to the top, so to speak. well, he clearly isn't feeling that way now. he knows the handwriting is on the wall. and while i presume he doesn't like it, it's pretty much a given. i like keller more than i like robinson. but as a tottenham supporter, i also like the thought of not having to worry about having class in goal for the next 5-10 years. robinson can (and hopefully will) give us that. keller simply cannot.
I would take Paul Robinson over Kasey Keller on a good day. Keller's distrubution is terrible. He always kicks the ball out of play & does not have a presence in goal. Robinson is better than him on crosses & shot stopping aswell.
From what i have seen, i'd take Robinson. Down side to him is that, much like most young keepers, he makes the occasional mistake, but like i said thats only from what i have seen. Seems to have mental lapses, which will cause bad positioning and what not. That being said he is very athletic, a great shot stopper. One of my favorite keepers at the moment. Right now I dont think Keller is in top form, which is understandable because he hasnt been getting first team play. I only saw highlights of his last two games, and he didnt look too sharp. My two cents.
american fans tend to view keller more favorably than folks in the UK, and it' not entirely down to national bias. the fact is that most of us developed our perceptions of keller with the US nats, for whom he has always been very solid (outstanding, actually), and far more consistent than he has been with spurs. i've seen all but just a couple of his matches with the nats, and he's never been a weakness. i saw many of his matches with rayo vallecano in spain, and he always looked pretty good there, too. i've actually only seen a relative handfull of his matches at tottenham (12-15?), and while i've seen him look quite strong on occasion, he's also had more dodgy performances with spurs than i've seen in all other teams combined. i still rate keller; but i can see why some spurs fans don't.
Wow, hyperbole at its highest. This may be your opinion, but I do not believe it is based on performance, I just don't see the usefulness of posts like this. Robinson is not one of the top 5 keepers in the Premiership ... I wish he were, but he's not. Neither is Keller. At the moment I think Robinson earned the right to start ... but it's not a birthright, and he's not holding it with an iron fist. He's performing better, not legendarily, just better. On the idea of any keeper giving a team 5-10 years of stability, well its all a matter of when you start counting those 5-10 years. There will usually be a good young promising keeper coming along, but what you want from a keeper is his prime. That is almost always later in his career. Why pay your dues for a keeper if you're going to dismiss him half-way through his prime to start paying your dues on the next promising keeper? To me, this situation isn't really the one we have with Robinson and Keller though. Keller is still quite good, but IMHO past his prime. Robinson is still learning, but IMHO, very close to reaching his prime. I find it disappointing when I see people belittling Keller's contributions over the years. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but I'd hope the supporters would be supportive of players that have played well and given their all for the team. Most do, but when I see posts like this one ... I have to shake my head. -Digital
Obviously, Americans are gonna say keller is better and Uk people are gonna say Robinson. Keller has been through way more than Robinson has been through and keller is probably smarter and has way more experiance. If those dummies don't want him, well thats their loss. AND FOR THE RECORD, JUST CAUSE TIMMY HOWARD IS AT ManU, OT DOESN'T MEAN HE IS THE BEST US GOALIE. I WOULD PERFER BRAD AND KELLER OVER HIM ANY DAY!!!
Its not our loss because Robinson is better. Keller at his best is not better than Robinson at his best. What has Keller being smarter than him got to do with it? The reason why Keller is more experienced is that he is older. He may have played in a World Cup but Robinson has played Champions League football & will be in goal for England in the next World Cup for sure.
It's fair to say every Spurs fan I know prefers Robinson to Keller, outside of Bigsoccer I've not heard of anyone who thinks otherwise. It's not just UK fans that prefer Robinson either but also our fans from Scandinavia, Australia and elsewhere. It's clear when watching games that Robbo is better at the job, more convincing and a big favorite with the Park Lane already. That's not to say Keller was a 'bad' keeper, just not as good.
Robinson is so popular in the Park Lane, we have not had a legitimate England's no.1 for years. Well Ray Clemence was the last one we had.
just out of curiosity, does anyone over there know how highly leicester city fans rate (or rated) keller? i'm not suggesting that this should be pertinent to how spurs fans rate him, and i'm certainaly not trying to convince anyone to like him more than they do. but he was very, very solid for the US national side at that time (late 90s), and i wonder if there was as great a discrepancy between his form for club and country - and between how he's perceived there and here - as there seems to be now.
I think Leicester fans would think highly of Keller as he was in goal for them in their succesfull team of the late 90's under Martin O'Neill. Their must have been a big difference between his club & country form as I would never call him very, very solid for Tottenham.