i agree with
@khoazany
Zeiler's been excellent in the Bundesliga but hardly got a sniff of 1st team football when he was with us.. Johnstone might develop into a top GK if he moves to a smaller team and plays every week
Zieler is a good goalkeeper (No way excellent.....for example he has made a big mistake today and that wasn't his first big one this season).
And he hasn't joined Hannover and was suddenly their number 1 in the goal......he was on the bench the first months and then got a chance because the other goalkeeper was just awful. I just wanna say that you leave United and then you are from Day 1 the number 1 goalkeeper at a decent german 1.Bundesliga club.
Bayern Munich's last goalkeeper from their academy was 30 years ago.
It's just a difficult position at top clubs to give young players a chance over a longer period.
Van Gaal has given Thomas Kraft (He was from their own academy.....now at Hertha BSC Berlin) his debut but the Bayern Munich board members were totally against this decision......they wanted Neuer. Obviously we all know now that was the right decision to buy Neuer and not trust academy product Kraft.......but young academy goalkeepers are needing more people who are rating them as just the coach/manager.
Let's say Casillas goes to MLS next season, there is a excellent young goalkeeper at Real Madrid's academy and Ancelotti wants to give him a chance next season.....but they could get De Gea for 30m......we all know who would be their goalkeeper then next season.
Would De Gea be our goalkeeper if he would have come from our academy???