Joan Garcia (Espanyol GK) | £21-25m Release Clause

Arsenal were all over him last summer and ended up doing a loan for Neto when the deal couldn't be done. With Raya already signed up and negotiating for a second keeper in the 20 M bracket seemed odd but they did try.

Very similar in attributes
 
My Espanyol friends are really hyped about him. Him coming here makes a lot of sense. He’ll probably be our number one, he gets rich, and Espanyol avoids losing him to another Spanish club.
 
Catalandevil said:
My Espanyol friends are really hyped about him. Him coming here makes a lot of sense. He’ll probably be our number one, he gets rich, and Espanyol avoids losing him to another Spanish club.
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Don't build up the muppet in me
 
I think he is the next best GK in the whole wide universe since 5 minutes ago that I've discovered his existence.
 
Looks brilliant for that price. I'm liking this buyout clause shopping style if it means we can have multiple transfers wrapped up nice and early this summer.
 
Can't wait to have a GK who is good with all the basic of goalkeeping and not clown.
 
Another player we’re targeting with a release clause, can’t be a coincidence at this point.
 
Walters_19_MuFc said:
What's his distribution like?
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Not as good as Onana’s, but better than Dave’s. He commands his area better, has better reflexes, positioning and doesn’t make regular glaring errors. Then there’s the whole he’s got so much potential to develop further. I don’t see a downside if United can get a deal over the line.
 
I really want an absolute giant in goal. Someone 6ft5 plus. But either way, hopefully an improvement if we sign him and not a bad price.
 
Red_toad said:
Not as good as Onana’s, but better than Dave’s. He commands his area better, has better reflexes, positioning and doesn’t make regular glaring errors. Then there’s the whole he’s got so much potential to develop further. I don’t see a downside if United can get a deal over the line.
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we could force him to play in roller skates and he’d still have better distribution than Onana. I’ve not seen Onana do anything particularly special with the ball, but I’ve seen him feck it up trying plenty of times.
 
2 man midfield said:
we could force him to play in roller skates and he’d still have better distribution than Onana. I’ve not seen Onana do anything particularly special with the ball, but I’ve seen him feck it up trying plenty of times.
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It's bizarre how Onana still maintains this reputation as being brilliant with the ball despite all evidence to the contrary.
 
OverratedOpinion said:
I really want an absolute giant in goal. Someone 6ft5 plus. But either way, hopefully an improvement if we sign him and not a bad price.
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I think most of the best keepers have been shorter than that. The main benefit is in dealing with the ball in the air, yet Donnarumma for example is six inches taller than Raya and far, far worse at dealing with crosses.

Looks like Garcia is 89th percentile for stopping crosses, which is a good bit better than Onana (bang average) and of course De Gea (woeful).
 
Smores said:
It's bizarre how Onana still maintains this reputation as being brilliant with the ball despite all evidence to the contrary.
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Yeah we saw glimpses in the away games at Spurs and Arsenal but nothing whatsoever since
 
Red_toad said:
Not as good as Onana’s, but better than Dave’s. He commands his area better, has better reflexes, positioning and doesn’t make regular glaring errors. Then there’s the whole he’s got so much potential to develop further. I don’t see a downside if United can get a deal over the line.
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Thanks!
 
RobbieBerns said:
Call me old school but it’s refreshing to see a compilation of a keeper where they’re making saves instead of playing through balls
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This gave me a chuckle. It seems all the focus on keepers these days are on their ball playing ability, when in reality you want someone who's reasonably decent playing competent, basic passes out of the back, and the odd accurate long ball, but 95% of the focus should be on their ability to stop shots, be brave, command their area, rapidly (but not spectacularly) distribute, etc. You know....the goalkeeping essentials.

Onana has been a harrowing journey for us. He's never really brought anything to our game with his much vaunted ability to play through the press (such a ridiculous metric by which to judge a goalkeeper), meanwhile he has cardboard wrists, terrible judgement, and bottom tier levels of concentration. He can have a few good games, but even when he is on a run of good form, you always have that feeling that he has a massive error in him just around the corner. I imagine it's incredibly hard for the defenders to have any sense of confidence.
 
Hope this goes through, I've always wanted him when I heard about him 5 minutes ago
 
JB08 said:
Would hope we could grab £20m for Onana, so if he's a net improvement at a net zero cost, I'm in.
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We need 30 for Onana to avoid a loss on PSR, we would be much better off selling Bayindir for £8m and signing Garcia.
 
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