| Muric - the bigger picture 20:07 - Oct 26 with 3322 views | cbower |
Shot stopping - 8/10
Reflexes - 8/10
Crosses - 6.5 / 10
Ball at his feet 4 / 10
Distrubution 4/ 10
Decision making 3 / 10
Ability to inspire confidence in defence 4 / 10
Communication 4/ 10
Yes, these are my assessments from what I see but for me, he's been pretty uninspiring so far and it's not just today. |  |
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| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:11 - Oct 26 with 3252 views | MK1 |
Walton should be in for the Leicester game. |  |
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| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:14 - Oct 26 with 3221 views | ibbleobble |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:11 - Oct 26 by MK1 |
Walton should be in for the Leicester game. |
Such a weird move buying Muric. That whole debacle with Hladky feels like it’s blowing up a bit now. Walton is good enough and has proven already this season he’s competent at this level. Do the right thing KM - make the decision. |  | | |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:21 - Oct 26 with 3145 views | FrimleyBlue |
He doesn't half flap at things too
Look at their final goal. He catches it but spills it before falling onto it. And he tends to do that a lot. |  |
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| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:27 - Oct 26 with 3092 views | gtsb1966 |
He's cr@p. |  | | |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:42 - Oct 26 with 3021 views | ipswichtillidie |
He looked scared to me. Lacking confidence. |  |
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| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:51 - Oct 26 with 2956 views | Ryorry |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:42 - Oct 26 by ipswichtillidie |
He looked scared to me. Lacking confidence. |
A keeper lacking confidence is a recipe for disaster.
The biggest surprise for me this season is KM persisting with things that just ain't working. (And I'm one of KM's biggest fans before anyone starts). |  |
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| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:55 - Oct 26 with 2910 views | ITFCSG |
I'd go back to Burnley now and offer to swap Muric for Hladky | | | |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:55 - Oct 26 with 2903 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:51 - Oct 26 by Ryorry |
A keeper lacking confidence is a recipe for disaster.
The biggest surprise for me this season is KM persisting with things that just ain't working. (And I'm one of KM's biggest fans before anyone starts). |
How do you drop a £10 mill signing for a keeper you didn't play in the league below....
It's a big call despite most fans wanting it to happen. | |
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| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:59 - Oct 26 with 2847 views | Ryorry |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:55 - Oct 26 by FrimleyBlue |
How do you drop a £10 mill signing for a keeper you didn't play in the league below....
It's a big call despite most fans wanting it to happen. |
You go by performances - and loss of points as a result of poor ones.
KM's got to be brave. It shouldn't be about the money; & owners + Ashton should back his decisions. | |
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| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:08 - Oct 26 with 2793 views | bsw72 |
I'm probably in the minority of one, but that has never bothered me.
I don't think he is as bad as people are making out but was always going to struggle replacing Hladky (who had become a cult hero) and this has been compounded with 3 glaring mistakes directly leading to a goal and without doubt confidence is low. The problem with making mistakes as a keeper is they are 99% of the time punished and are horribly obvious.
Dropping him has some big consequences - damages his obvious fragile confidence further (which does 1 of two ways), and does put pressure on Walton to perform . . . what happens if Walton then has a similar experience - do we go to Slicker or bring back Muric. Changing goalkeeper is the biggest challenge a manager faces imo.
Whatever I (or any of us) think does not matter, just what McK thinks will count - he knows the players better than any of us. |  | | |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:10 - Oct 26 with 2767 views | Asa |
He seems to have the lowest footballing IQ of any player I've seen at the top level for quite some time.
You can have all the passing ability in the world, not that we've seen that, but if you make the wrong choice it counts for nothing.
Same with coming for crosses. You can be great at it but if you can't work out when to come for a cross the same.
Of course you want to back players and get behind them but given how well Walton played against Liverpool and given we have changed the way we play a lot in terms of the keeper due to Muric's inability to read the pitch in front of him I'd happily have Walton back in now. | | | |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:22 - Oct 26 with 2701 views | DublinBlue84 |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:08 - Oct 26 by bsw72 |
I'm probably in the minority of one, but that has never bothered me.
I don't think he is as bad as people are making out but was always going to struggle replacing Hladky (who had become a cult hero) and this has been compounded with 3 glaring mistakes directly leading to a goal and without doubt confidence is low. The problem with making mistakes as a keeper is they are 99% of the time punished and are horribly obvious.
Dropping him has some big consequences - damages his obvious fragile confidence further (which does 1 of two ways), and does put pressure on Walton to perform . . . what happens if Walton then has a similar experience - do we go to Slicker or bring back Muric. Changing goalkeeper is the biggest challenge a manager faces imo.
Whatever I (or any of us) think does not matter, just what McK thinks will count - he knows the players better than any of us. |
The problem for me is it's not even just about whether Hladky is better or not.
I think we've all seen that some of the errors come from a lack of communication and misunderstandings between defenders and goalkeeper and effectively that is something that happens often when a goalkeeper leaves and is replaced by a new one. The problem is when you combine that with playing at a level as unforgiving as this.
Our defensive players and by that I mean our back line and defensive midfielders had a lot more confidence in Hladky than they appear to have in Muric. You already know going into a Premier League season it's going to be a vast difference in class and having to build up a relationship from scratch with a brand new goalkeeper, whoever they are, is always going to take time.
If you add into that the fact that Muric is clearly inferior with the ball at his feet, which itself is a large part of the way we played last season, then you have both implications in terms of players not only not having the confidence or experience in playing in front of a new keeper, but also having to adjust their game to the fact that Muric cannot distribute in the same way that Hladky does, which means they also need to adapt to a slightly different style of distribution as well as building relationships.
I am not saying that Muric is worse than Hladky as a goalkeeper overall, but what I am saying is that to me it is a gamble to change your goalkeeper and force those relationships to be build up from scratch in a scenario where there is little margin for error. If we were a mid-table Premier League team already who was relatively safe then I think you can afford to take somewhat of a risk, but in a team fighting relegation every point counts and whilst everyone adapts to a new goalkeeper and builds their confidence and knowledge of knowing what he is going to do, games are passing and points are being dropped.
Muric may well be a better keeper than Hladky once he has settled down and got used to playing with those around him and vice versa, but my issue is that as a club, I think we would have been better off sticking with Hladky and not disrupting what was already, rather than waiting for a new keeper and defensive partnership to bed in, which may take half a season or more even if Muric is good enough and by that point it may well be that it is too late. | |
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| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:25 - Oct 26 with 2676 views | FelixBlue4 |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:14 - Oct 26 by ibbleobble |
Such a weird move buying Muric. That whole debacle with Hladky feels like it’s blowing up a bit now. Walton is good enough and has proven already this season he’s competent at this level. Do the right thing KM - make the decision. |
After the goal KM goes over to the monitor and watches the replay and didn’t look happy. The first thing I thought watching his reaction was I think Walton will get a game next week.
Overall it was a good change for the first 40 minutes it looked like the changes really worked. We were to busy worrying about the yellow card for David (throw in) it looked like it got into the players head and for the next 5 minutes it fell apart and we couldn’t get over it. | | | |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:35 - Oct 26 with 2592 views | warky_1970 |
It’s absolutely obscene that he is somehow stealing a wage as a professional footballer.
Probably the worst keeper to ever represent any team in Premier League history. |  | | |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:35 - Oct 26 with 2586 views | ibbleobble |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:25 - Oct 26 by FelixBlue4 |
After the goal KM goes over to the monitor and watches the replay and didn’t look happy. The first thing I thought watching his reaction was I think Walton will get a game next week.
Overall it was a good change for the first 40 minutes it looked like the changes really worked. We were to busy worrying about the yellow card for David (throw in) it looked like it got into the players head and for the next 5 minutes it fell apart and we couldn’t get over it. |
Chaplin made a big difference today and was better in that role than Omari in my view. Linked up play well, found some great pockets of space and knew where the gaps were with his back to goal - that’s what that role needs. If Szmodics can play the role in the right and he’s proved he can and Omari is better on the right, the big question is, how do you get Hirst and Delap into the starting eleven!? | | | |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:36 - Oct 26 with 2566 views | TractorWood |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 20:55 - Oct 26 by FrimleyBlue |
How do you drop a £10 mill signing for a keeper you didn't play in the league below....
It's a big call despite most fans wanting it to happen. |
There's no way he's doing it 😔 |  |
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| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:47 - Oct 26 with 2486 views | Kieran_Knows |
Said it from the minute I saw his highlight reels from Burnley. He’s either the sublime or the ridiculous, with nothing in between.
Wouldn’t be dropping him mind. We need to get a settled back 5 going, albeit injuries are hampering us there. |  |
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| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:52 - Oct 26 with 2449 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
To be fair, he was only 'at fault' for the 4th, and that mainly happened because it looked like oshea was going to head it clear. |  |
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| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:56 - Oct 26 with 2346 views | Melford |
He was sh!t at relegated Burnley last season doing all the same lame sh!t he's now doing for us, god only knows who thought he'd be the answer.
We should have gone after Ramsdale, Kelleher from Liverpool would have been the one. |  |
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| Muric - the bigger picture on 22:01 - Oct 26 with 2294 views | Kieran_Knows |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:56 - Oct 26 by Melford |
He was sh!t at relegated Burnley last season doing all the same lame sh!t he's now doing for us, god only knows who thought he'd be the answer.
We should have gone after Ramsdale, Kelleher from Liverpool would have been the one. |
He wasn’t sh!t at Burnley. He ended up replacing their £20m keeper for the back end of the season due to all the mistakes he was making, and by all accounts, other than one clanger against Brighton (I think), had a good end to the season, with many of their fans wanting to keeping him for this season in the Championship.
He was excellent during Burnley’s promotion season as well. Absolutely no chance we was spending £20m on Ramsdale, who’s currently part of a worse side than us, or Kelleher who Liverpool wanted more for. | |
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| Muric - the bigger picture on 22:03 - Oct 26 with 2263 views | tractorboy1978 |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:56 - Oct 26 by Melford |
He was sh!t at relegated Burnley last season doing all the same lame sh!t he's now doing for us, god only knows who thought he'd be the answer.
We should have gone after Ramsdale, Kelleher from Liverpool would have been the one. |
No he wasn’t. He was the third best keeper in the league with a +6.6 on goals saved vs expected goals conceded. Don’t let facts get in the way though.
https://www.football365.com/news/feature-premier-league-keepers-ranked-2023-24-p | | | |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 22:11 - Oct 26 with 2162 views | WicklowBlue |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 21:56 - Oct 26 by Melford |
He was sh!t at relegated Burnley last season doing all the same lame sh!t he's now doing for us, god only knows who thought he'd be the answer.
We should have gone after Ramsdale, Kelleher from Liverpool would have been the one. |
That is an emotional response to a late goal conceded. He played the last 10 games iirc for Burnley and did well.
All players need to be in a settled system and playing with confidence at the top level. Kelleher would have been an amazing signing but would cost 30m+.
While Muric should be questioned, so should the entire back line! Why didn't someone get out to stop that aimless cross into the box, why was O'Shea waving his arms which for me indicated the ball was going wide.
Not sure why posters continue to assasinate Muric, when every goal conceded starts from further up the pitch. |  | | |
| Muric - the bigger picture on 22:14 - Oct 26 with 2142 views | brazil1982 |
I don't see why Keepers are immune from bring dropped - every other position is changed fairly regularly. |  | | |
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