How the mighty have fallen, though his compatriots fell equally far. He was relegated with Fulham and had to spend the next 2 years on loan, incidentally last season with Southampton. Koeman worked with him and now he's bringing him over.
Clearly he rates him enough, with speculation high that Robles might be leaving. Well, it's silly season so rumors are all over the place. The funny thing is, reading how many of the naysayers rate him, he's garbage, except they kept thinking he sat on Fulham's bench instead of Southampton's.
Well, a few things they forgot, other than that he was at Southampton instead of Fulham.
- He was competition for Fraser Forster, a good GK, and replaced by him after a run of bad results
- That string of bad results come at the end of 17 games totaling 30 points, 2 points more than the average over the rest of the season
- He is younger than Nigel Martyn when he signed, who was a great signing especially after taking over from Richard Wright, who was not a World Cup finalist when he signed
- Clearly, not our long term solution, so we're possibly adding a true starting GK at some point and one of 3 GKs that Koeman wants
- Came at a fairly low price
So, while I'm not sure how Koeman's team next year looks like, I'm quite happy to have him signed on. Welcome Maarten.
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