Player Watch: Brandon Austin

[Locotoro]

Couldn't see a thread for him so I created one.

I thought this would be as good a place as any to link this article that I thought was very good and highlights the issues young goalkeepers have and the emergency loan rules.

It really is a disgrace that clubs are allowed to exploit this rule despite having adequate and contracted players on their books. It's why you now end up with goalkeepers not having played any minutes well into their late twenties. This is my fear for Austin and Whiteman

The rise of the ‘fake No.2 goalkeeper’: How EFL clubs are exploiting the emergency loan loophole to save budget

Pressure to get results in the EFL means clubs are thinking outside the box and making the emergency loan rule work in a way that saves them money, but is it also harming careers?

www.fourfourtwo.com

 

[Tucker]

Couldn't see a thread for him so I created one.

I thought this would be as good a place as any to link this article that I thought was very good and highlights the issues young goalkeepers have and the emergency loan rules.

It really is a disgrace that clubs are allowed to exploit this rule despite having adequate and contracted players on their books. It's why you now end up with goalkeepers not having played any minutes well into their late twenties. This is my fear for Austin and Whiteman

The rise of the ‘fake No.2 goalkeeper’: How EFL clubs are exploiting the emergency loan loophole to save budget

Pressure to get results in the EFL means clubs are thinking outside the box and making the emergency loan rule work in a way that saves them money, but is it also harming careers?

www.fourfourtwo.com

Yeah that’s a rule that needs to be changed. In fact I’d go as far as to say that if you have at least one goalkeeper aged over 17 on your books then there’s no need for an emergency loan. It’s just tough luck if there’s an injury crisis.

 

[Locotoro]

Yeah that’s a rule that needs to be changed. In fact I’d go as far as to say that if you have at least one goalkeeper aged over 17 on your books then there’s no need for an emergency loan. It’s just tough luck if there’s an injury crisis.

Exactly. I don't understand the logic behind setting a premier league squad registration and give extra slots to non-senior players and then allow clubs to loan any player let alone a goalkeeper when there are younger players who would look at that as their opportunity.

 

[eddiebailey]

Both Austin an Whiteman have a fair few games under their belts outside of English football. I don’t know if this would prevent them from being used as fake no. 2s.

incidentally, I know Alfie signed a new contract, any news on Brandon?

 

[Shanks]

It is such a hard position and even tougher to gain experience at any level, I know a former polish u21 keeper, struggling to find clubs at step 4, he’s brilliant too.

 

[Locotoro]

I'm not sure why the emergency loan is even allowed.
You decide your squad, register it and that should be it. If you're without then you turn to your reseves and youth

 

[Dannyspur]

I'm not sure why the emergency loan is even allowed.
You decide your squad, register it and that should be it. If you're without then you turn to your reseves and youth

Like when arse got the game called off because they had one player out with covid a few injured and out on loan. One excuse was that they couldn’t field any youngsters in case it upset them if they were crap.

 

[Locotoro]

Like when arse got the game called off because they had one player out with covid a few injured and out on loan. One excuse was that they couldn’t field any youngsters in case it upset them if they were crap.

Its the biggest load of bollocks.
Everyone complains that Premier League clubs don't give enough chances to their youth prospects and that the league is being flooded by cheaper overseas imports when young players could do the same thing. But when a club has an opportunity for youth prospects to step up and potentially make the mark the league allows said club to loan emergency players or postpone/move the game so they can get their first team players back from injury.

 

[coy-spurs1882]

Contract extended to 2029

 

[Yiddo100]

Is he second choice now then? with Forsters age and not really suited to play the way Ange wants I wouldn’t be surprised to see him go and surely you don’t sign a 5 year deal as 3rd choice.

 

[eddiebailey]

Wow! Five year deal!

Fierce competition for the goalkeeping spots. Josh Keeley has just been called up to the senior RoI squad and Luca Gunter looks the absolute nuts.

 

[Locotoro]

Does this mean Whiteman will be on his way out or are we having the two compete for 2nd choice spot?

 

[coy-spurs1882]

Does this mean Whiteman will be on his way out or are we having the two compete for 2nd choice spot?

probably both are staying as we don't have enough club trained players (Skipp, Austin, Whiteman, Parrott)

 

[taidgh]

Wow! Five year deal!

Fierce competition for the goalkeeping spots. Josh Keeley has just been called up to the senior RoI squad and Luca Gunter looks the absolute nuts.

The one position Ireland has any real quality of depth with kelleher and bazunu and now Keeley. Bazunu out for 7 more months with ACL injury, so I would expect Keeley to drop back down once he's fit again.

 

[Blake Griffin]

Does this mean Whiteman will be on his way out or are we having the two compete for 2nd choice spot?

i get the feeling whiteman is happy to just be a full-time trainer tbh and the club are happy to keep him in that role.

 

[eddiebailey]

i get the feeling whiteman is happy to just be a full-time trainer tbh and the club are happy to keep him in that role.

There was a rumour of a loan lined up for him in the last window which fell through.

 

[matty74]

Bizarre giving a him a 5 year contract don’t think he will ever be close to being a decent number 2 .

 

[Dannyspur]

Gunter probably going to be better

 

[eddiebailey]

Bizarre giving a him a 5 year contract don’t think he will ever be close to being a decent number 2 .

Is this based on how he deports himself upon the bench?

 

[leffe186]

Gunter probably going to be better

Gunter and Keeley, hopefully.