Manchester United monitor Jack Butland

Colin129

Has this already been posted? Apologies if it has:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...am-keeper.html

Who, and more importantly why?

Mickey

Dont see the point in looking at keepers considering our no1 is so young, as is our no2 and no3 actually.

bosnian_red

I got him in football manager as a second keeper to de gea once. Was decent, hth

It'd be a strange signing though seeing as we have a few young keepers.

FlawlessThaw

Third choice keeper I presume for next year. Loan out Amos at the same time, if Butland turns out to be any good he can then compete with Amos for number 2 spot and potentially compete with De Gea for the number 1 jersey.

The fact that he is 19 means we wouldn't have to put him in the 25 man squad for a couple of years as well.

Ralaks

Amos will have to take up one of the squad places next season I think so it maybe a replacement for him.

Ace

Surely our resources would be better spent else where, but what do I know.

FlawlessThaw

Fergie tries to think a few moves ahead generally

Broyphs

He sounds like a gay theme park.

Sean_RedDevil

I want to say first that we've some quality young english goalkeepers like Amos, Forster, Stockdale and Butland at the moment but Butland has the biggest potential for me, he'll be 100% in the England team in a couple of years.

But Butland needs games in the next years therefore he must make really the right steps in his career.

We're having De Gea and Lindegaard as our goalkeepers for the next years.
Like said Amos is big talent too but he should go on loan in the next seasons.

Leg-End

A young well rated English GK to use as a Number 2/3 with perhaps the long term goal of giving De Gea a challenge for £3 million.

I'd make that deal, damn good deal.

Colin129

Hart is nailed on for the next 10 though...

Decotron

Shit doesnt work like that.

Will Absolute

You're thinking of his brother Richard, who spells his name with two t's.

Sean_RedDevil

"England Team" isn't starting XI

I hope Hart will have a long future as England's number one but we all know it goes fast in football.

Many people are talking about Butland like many people have talked about Hart a couple of years ago.

Colin129

And how many people talked about Foster?

tbf, I don't think it did Foster any good being 'stuck' at United for so long going nowhere. What would be Butland's future at United?

Levo

Very highly rated, maybe of a case of snatching him so others can't.

Donut

Is he related to Chris Butland?

Hitchcocker

Can classify him as homegrown perhaps?

Sean_RedDevil

Butland is 19 (Number one for the U21 since last year) and Foster was 23 on his arrival at Old Trafford.

AKDevil

Some highly-qualified people believe Butland will be even better than Hart.
Would be surprised if we were'nt in for him bearing in mind missing out no Hart etc and fact he is going cheap now.
I'm 90 per cent certain he will not sign for United though. Others in for him who can offer better first-team football prospects.

Donut

Every top team in the country except for Tottenham seems sorted at the goalie department for the next few years. Come to think of it... Young, english, FM legend, surely Harry will sign him?

Stobzilla

He had a stinker a couple weeks ago but has generally been great for Cheltenham this season.

Can't hurt to try given his widely talked about potential.

scholesy legend

The club has always been scouting for great young talents and then get them in if they think the kids will one day be good enough for United, regardless of how they would fit into the team the moment they do. I think the philosophy must be something like: there's nothing to lose if they eventually become better than what we already have.

cesc's_mullet

antohan

Byland is the one I was thinking about, whatever happened with him? Genuine talent that lad.

mo0

he is the most promising GK'ing talent in the country.

over 50 scouts watching each of his matches when he was on loan at Cheltenham for the first half of the season. was recalled back to Brum in January before being sent back out to Cheltenham again. was unstoppable in his first spell, but has had a slightly rockier time since returning.

England U21 int'l at 18 and is a far better prospect than Amos. the thing is, GK's need games and need to play. with Lindegaard and De Gea (who is only 21!) i don't see United as a favourable move for Butland.

remember the name though. between him, Stockdale, Foderingham, Fraser Forster, and even Rudd/Ruddy, there's a small but talented group of English 'keepers out there.

Stobzilla

Alex Smithies isn't bad either.

Raoul

Last I heard he'd given up football to become a DJ. What a wasted talent.

Donut

I'm still not sure if Chris Byland is just an inside joke of the Caf or not

antohan

Phenomenal talent. People keep harping on about Pogba, Morrison, Rossi and Pique as talents that got away before them, but Byland was the real deal.

Didn't know about the DJing Raoul, hope he doesn´t start getting his wrists injured now

Gabe

Byland was arguably a bigger talent than R Morrison, as Keano once said, lots of lads have the talent, but character is what gets you to the top..

yaps

Byland had some talent to him, but I'm not sure he would have made it at United. He would have been a great player for someone like Bolton however.

Sarni

No promising young goalkeeper in their right mind will come to United at the minute. We have De Gea who's 21 in our goal and he will remain there for a decade or more, anyone who comes here now will have to settle for being No 2 at best and with Lindegaard it seems more likely that it'd even be No 3. Why would Butland, who was a perfectly good chance of becoming England's No 1, settle for that?

jrsenior

Remember som talk about Byland having a trial at Inter last year.
Dont know what happened though, he had dodgy knees iirc.

Sarni

He'd have been 29 last year, why the hell would Inter give a trial to a 29 year old with no experience?

Gazza

RDCR07

We are not City or Madrid.

antohan

Inter could do worse than signing up a 29-year old talented lad with dodgy knees and a drinking problem. In fact, they have, they've been awful.

NoLogo

His last name sounds like a title of a porn movie.

Sarni

I heard he had completely left football for a while but then got trials at some big clubs around five years ago. He wasn't offered a contract though so he left to pursue career in a different area. I don't think he's going to come back. He's a reputable DJ now.