To be fair, maybe he's just doing what most of us do. Find a job you can do for good money, is comfortable and in a lovely work environment, and just squat on it as long as you can if they want to keep paying you. Just a job after all, and no position in football more like a job I would imagine than a depth/HG goalkeeper.
I would say - take a look at the comments on social media for the players who do play - and then compare that to the comments for the back-up, or 3rd string keeper.
If you read the article on the first page of this thread it's a thing that clubs try to have a goalkeeper who hasn't played much so they can still opt for an emergency loan of a good keeper if the situation arises.
Tricky one, on one hand it’s great to use up a HG spot on a player who may play 2/3 times a season. On the other hand however if Vicario is out for 3/4 months after the first couple of games then not having an adequate back up can really destroy your season.
Completely forgot De Gea still doesn’t have a club. Suppose that shows you why Austin may have decide to stay and lacked the perceived ambition to go out and leave. Unlike outfield players there are a smaller number of goalkeeper spots in squads available. If he’s happy being the 3rd choice keeper then I don’t blame him.
That's absolutely the case I think.
He’s on more than 5k a week I imagine.
We don’t even know if Austin is any good. How many competitive games has he played. Really wouldn’t want to rely on him for a few PL games in a row. Talk about players happy to sit on the bench, he’s happy to sit in the stand. Serious lack of ambition.
He probably won’t go out on loan but if I was the club I’d want him to go out on loan to an English team this season. I think you’re right about about relying on him long term as our back up keeper. But we’ve given him the five year deal so why we still have Forster for one more season to be our back up let him go out on loan. Get some experience and then come back and replace Forster as the back up to Vicario.
I haven’t the slightest idea how he warrants a 5 yr contract. Possibly they have had some interest and want to get some sort of fee for him. I’m always nervous of possibly relying on Forster to be honest. Burnley reserve, Muric, is better. I know he makes some mistakes but we are playing with fire not having a good back up keeper. We left ourselves short when we sold Sanchez and paid the price.
I would guess they view Austin as the number 2. Otherwise why give him a 5 year deal? I’m sure you could have given him a shorter on
Me personally, I don't think he can be any worse than Forster
