Is it safe to assume that the standard of today's goalkeepers is deteriorating then, if half the premier leagues clubs have a worse goalkeeper than Wayne Hennessy?

Come on now. Be honest. He's had an OK season. No great calamities like the Villa one last season. The home game against Chelsea was his only big error, plus a few goals he could perhaps have done better with, depending on your viewpoint. The only thing I'd agree with you on is that he doesn't tend to have match-winning performances - Southampton last year is the last one I can honestly remember.

All keepers make mistakes - e.g. people keep saying we should go for Pickford but he made a bad error at the weekend. Unfortunately it is the one position where an error punishes you. Benteke might miss a few sitters but it is the goalie errors you tend to remember.

As I've said several times on here, I thought we should get rid of all 3 keepers and start afresh next season. However, now Parish has decided to give Speroni yet another year, that isn't going to happen, and we'll be in the same boat next season with either WH or a replacement having to be unfairly compared to Speroni all the time. Whether we get a new number one will I suppose depend on how much money Sam has to spend and what positions he sees as being more important to upgrade/replace.

Interested to know:- would you get a 2nd/3rd choice if it meant that we could sign Sakho.

Come on now. Be honest. He's had an OK season. No great calamities like the Villa one last season. The home game against Chelsea was his only big error, plus a few goals he could perhaps have done better with, depending on your viewpoint. The only thing I'd agree with you on is that he doesn't tend to have match-winning performances - Southampton last year is the last one I can honestly remember.

All keepers make mistakes - e.g. people keep saying we should go for Pickford but he made a bad error at the weekend. Unfortunately it is the one position where an error punishes you. Benteke might miss a few sitters but it is the goalie errors you tend to remember.

As I've said several times on here, I thought we should get rid of all 3 keepers and start afresh next season. However, now Parish has decided to give Speroni yet another year, that isn't going to happen, and we'll be in the same boat next season with either WH or a replacement having to be unfairly compared to Speroni all the time. Whether we get a new number one will I suppose depend on how much money Sam has to spend and what positions he sees as being more important to upgrade/replace.

I agree completely that at Chelsea, his was a match-winning performance. The problem is that we struggle to scrape up any other games in which Hennessey made a game-saving stop - something that Speroni used to do consistently.[/quote]

Mainly in the Championship, that's why he has been replaced.