Young keeper signs

[PaulMcC]

Reds confirm new signing - Liverpool FC

 

Liverpool Football Club can today confirm the signing of Swindon Town teenager Jamie Stephens.

 

The 16-year-old goalkeeper will join the Academy until 2012 and is set to sign a professional contract on his 17th birthday.

 

The move follows a period training with the Reds earlier this season, after which Stephens said: "The Academy is unbelievable. They have so many staff, everyone is so polite, and kind, it's really friendly, like a family club."

 

Author: Jimmy Rice

[Dan Vito Corleone]

I've heard his name mentioned a few times, he is reportedly showing all the signs of becoming a top class goalkeeper. This, incidentally, takes our number of goalkeepers at the club past the 1 million mark!

[Tom R]

we could really do with more keepers.

[Trumo]

Ah, so that's the plan? Sign up every young goalkeeper in world football, thereby increasing the value of a precious footballing commodity as every other club scrambles to try and sign them from us. Crafty, no?

[05 Milan]

I've heard his name mentioned a few times, he is reportedly showing all the signs of becoming a top class goalkeeper. This, incidentally, takes our number of goalkeepers at the club past the 1 million mark!

 

I've gotten the impression that we're pretty good at picking goalkeepers. Seem to read lots of positive stuff about the likes of Bouzanis and Gulacsi.

 

Carson was great business, might pick up a profit for Cavalieri as well. Itandje was the one great cock-up.

[tulsakop]

We've also got a keeper in the England u16 setup--Tyrell Belford, looks like. So tough to tell with them though till they're done growing (says I, who had the hands and feet of a kid who should've ended up 6-foot-3 and stopped just over 5-11).

 

What happened to David Martin? Doesn't look like he's getting games on loan.

[The-Sir]

I've gotten the impression that we're pretty good at picking goalkeepers. Seem to read lots of positive stuff about the likes of Bouzanis and Gulacsi.

 

Carson was great business, might pick up a profit for Cavalieri as well. Itandje was the one great cock-up.

 

Padelli.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

To be fair mate, Padelli was a loan signing.

[The-Sir]

Yeah good point. Still... *shudders* I had the privilege of being at his one and only game that he played for us.

[PaulMcC]

Padelli looked like he was shitting himself in that game he played.

[05 Milan]

Padelli, euurgh, had forgotten about him..

[Dan Vito Corleone]

He's as bad as it gets!

[gkmacca]

We've also let the young Brazilian sensation Vitor Flora go after a year of stunning unachievement - a player, about whom no one even in Brazil seemed to know, it was rumoured one of our scouts 'spotted' in a YouTube clip that Mr Flora Snr had uploaded. Well done, lads, keep it up!

[WaltonRed]

Glad he's young and english.

 

Another keeper mind...

[Trucker Paddy]

We've also let the young Brazilian sensation Vitor Flora go after a year of stunning unachievement - a player, about whom no one even in Brazil seemed to know, it was rumoured one of our scouts 'spotted' in a YouTube clip that Mr Flora Snr had uploaded. Well done, lads, keep it up![/QUOTE]

 

I would'nt doubt this in the slightest, just to clarify the scout was Macia, the idiot could'nt spot a top player if he hit him in the nose with the ball from 50 yards.

[Joe Le Taxi]

We usually do really well with keepers. I'd sell Cavalieri now as we could get a fair bit for him and either promote a reserve keeper or sign Kasper Schmeichael from Notts County as they want to sell him. We get a good keeper and we could make a good little profit.

[WaltonRed]

Schmeichael wants to be a number one, he'll end up in the prem somewhere.

 

We have enough reserves to promote to number two.

 

I'd sell Cavalieri, he's done nothing wrong but i'd take the £3m we could get for him.

[Allan]

I had a feeling that we sent Darbs to Swindon to butter them up so we could have first dibs on Stephens.

[DJLJ]

We can never have too many young goal keepers...

 

Liverpool Take Highly Rated Danish Teenage Goalkeeper on Trial - International Business Times UK

 

Liverpool Take Highly Rated Danish Teenage Goalkeeper on Trial

 

February 13, 2013 8:30 AM GMT

 

Liverpool have offered a week's trial to Danish outfit Viborg's highly rated teenage goalkeeper Kevin Ray Mendoza Hansen.

 

The 18-year-old, who has been attracting interest from a host of European clubs, will now spend a week at Merseyside in the hope of earning a professional contract at Anfield. Hansen is set to train with the Reds' reserve side but Brendan Rodgers will be keeping tabs on the Danish prodigy.

 

"I look forward to trying to impress. It will be a great experience," the young stopper said.

 

Hansen is currently an understudy to the more experienced Martin Hansen at Viborg but is touted as an exciting prospect for the near future.

 

According to the Metro, both clubs have already agreed on a £1m transfer fee, if the player impresses Liverpool during the trial. Manchester City and Arsenal are also interested in Hansen and are understood to have scouted him on several occasions in the last few months.

[Alan Sex]

Mmm bop.

[Jairzinho]

Fantastic news. Look forward to releasing him in a couple of years.

[beejay]

So this lad is the understudy of the keeper with the same name we had on our books as a kid?

[Trucker Paddy]

Without even seeing him I bet he's better in his near post than Reina

[sir roger]

I've been following us since the mid-60's and can't remember us ever having a youth goalkeeper going on to be even close to first choice in all that time, and we must have had over 300,000 or so.

[Trucker Paddy]

I've been following us since the mid-60's and can't remember us ever having a youth goalkeeper going on to be even close to first choice in all that time' date=' and we must have had over 300,000 or so.[/quote']

 

Carson? Not a youth but quite young and was selected age 19 for CL quarter final, never thought you were that old by the way.