I always like to see a German goalkeeper who is also under contract with FCB. I hope the boy is a great talent so that we don’t have any problems in this position for a decade!
Do you really think this is the case? Somehow I can’t imagine that you would trust any youngster to be capable of inheriting Neuer. I think you will get a clear number 1 for a lot of money. Especially since the boy only has one year of contract left. It’s just questionable whether you can show him a perspective that he extends.
At that time, many Früchtl fans were sure that there was great talent in the club. In the end, he never got a chance either and Nübel was preferred to be put in front of him.
With a U17 keeper, that can go in any direction.
If, for fun, you take a look at the successful vintages of various nations in recent years in youth tournaments, you will notice that only a small proportion still end up in the big leagues.
And how many top clubs still have a keeper between the posts who was trained over the years as a youth?
That would have to be a player who can be loaned out for years.
Playing in such a position at a club like Bayern as a 19-year-old must be one of the most difficult undertakings.
Unlike the defender or striker, the goalkeeper has no choice, he has to be a leader and a personality somewhere, for example, to organize his defence.
As a goalkeeper, you are also much longer in the age of talent due to the enormous dependence on experience.
So it would take a few coincidences, for example, to flush a 19-year-old onto the bench at FC Bayern.
No club with these ambitions will jeopardize its sporting goals because there is no experienced player available behind the number 1 and at the same time the media coverage would be huge if Thomas Tuchel suddenly rotated such a young keeper into a league game, who then also made a mistake would face ten times as much headwind.
As a goalkeeper, you should go step by step and get match practice early on, which is a tick more important than for field players.
You are in the limelight in a completely different way.
Donnarumma, for example, decided too early and hastily in my opinion and put a lot of pressure on itself.
Pressure, which then often led to uncontrolled excursions and questionable decisions that should not have happened so often with such an ambitious club.
I’m generally cautious when players from the junior years are immediately showered with praise and many fans are already talking about this and that career path.
The jump into the men’s division is simply incredibly difficult and nowadays the mentally unbelievable is also demanded of you.
Moukoko explained that nicely recently.
Players like Arp, Sinan Kurt, Nsereko, Pannewitz & Co. were turned into talents of the century who could do everything with the ball and ultimately made the wrong decision that sealed the early end.