1 - Marc-Andre ter Ansplant

[KingMessi]

The only thing we can do is loan him out and hope for the best. Or sell Bravo to City or something, which I doubt would happen.

 

[God Serena]

The only thing we can do is loan him out and hope for the best. Or sell Bravo to City or something, which I doubt would happen.

A loan would probably be our best bet. Pull a Courtois on him. But even then, eventually the hard decision will have to be made eventually.

 

[D10S_JC]

Loan him to a La Liga team.

 

[Lelouch vi Britannia]

As great as Bravo is, I'd still pick Stegen if I had to pick one to keep.

 

[Butaan4barca]

As great as Bravo is, I'd still pick Stegen if I had to pick one to keep.

no. period.

 

[Obiaseti]

This is a rock and a hard place kind of situation. As good as Mats is in terms of the future right now it's Bravo that is the better option purely by virtue of having played regularly and being more experienced. But I don't blame Mats for wanting to leave for more playing time. We might have to sell/loan him to another club next season and get a more experienced backup keeper willing to play second fiddle to Bravo. Although I don't think that should be hard for us as we attract talent easily enough.

 

[Observer]

For any other goalkeeper in the world winning the CL and the Copa in your first season in a new country is earning your stripes and Mats is perfectly justified to be unhappy with the bench.

He can be unhappy but he is not on the bench. A bench player does not play CL & Copa. If he's unhappy about not playing all competitions he can blame Bravo, not management. If Bravo keeps happening at this level he will be set to cups competition. In that sense his situation is WAY better than Sergi Roberto's case.

Or if a hard decision is made in regards to looking towards the future instead of the present. No matter how long you tell yourself Bravo can keep performing at the top level, you can add nine to that for Mats.

I haven't told myself anything, it's whats happening week in week out whether you like it or not. Teams only look towards the future as a strategy in transition stages, which is not the case. There have been exceptions to the case but with young players that are proven talents (e.g.: Neymar)

If he leaves this summer in search of playing time that'd hardly be a rushed decision. I'm sure you'd be tickled to have him as a bench option for the next seven years while Bravo continues starting most of our games but that's clearly not going to happen. I'd be shocked if we even manage to tie Mats down to a new contract at this rate.

TBH I dont see Bravo in this team after 5 years, probably wants to retire back in Chile. Mats can stay or go to a loan (which could be better for his personal career), a sale would be a rushed decision.

 

[jairzinho]

MATS is going to be huge tmrw !

 

[khaled_a_d]

A loan would probably be our best bet. Pull a Courtois on him. But even then, eventually the hard decision will have to be made eventually.

Would he be ok with a loan?and where?
Club like Liverpool for example is against such approach .most bigger clubs won't just take a starting GK for loan like ATM did few years ago with Courtois .and most big clubs are happy with their own GK anyway
And as a guy who was starting for the CL winners .I am not sure he would be content with just Liga club as [MENTION=15907]D10S_JC[/MENTION] suggest
The only team that come to mind right now is Villarreal since they seem close to get to CL next season ,another would be Napoli if they feel they would need an upgrade over Reina

 

[Darko]

We can't afford to lose him, he will be one of the world's best in a few years time.
But dropping Bravo would be insane, so it's really a tricky situation for Lucho.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

As great as Bravo is, I'd still pick Stegen if I had to pick one to keep.

Bravo has proven to be better. Right now I wouldn't let Bravo go. We need to keep both, Stegen for the future and Bravo for now. Stegen has to play smaller games for now, but he just needs to keep fighting and eventually he will get his spot.. C'mon MATS! Fight!!

 

[Galning]

Loan him to a La Liga team.

Never going to happen.

 

[frog-fcb]

Would bravo be as good as he is now without MATS here to push him to be at his peak or face getting dropped. Id say with regular playing time ter stegen will be every bit as good if not better than bravo

 

[PhilS]

I keep on hearing about how good Ter Stegen would be "if". But from what I have seen in his play for Barca, he generally plays very well, except for some bad goals. Too many bad goals for a Barca #1 keeper. Whereas for Bravo, the performance is consistently excellent, with lots of hero stuff one-on-one, which is needed playing for this team.

Ter Stegen can go, Barca can bring in someone else to be #2.

 

[DonAK]

I keep on hearing about how good Ter Stegen would be "if". But from what I have seen in his play for Barca, he generally plays very well, except for some bad goals. Too many bad goals for a Barca #1 keeper. Whereas for Bravo, the performance is consistently excellent, with lots of hero stuff one-on-one, which is needed playing for this team.

Ter Stegen can go, Barca can bring in someone else to be #2.

Good you're not a professional coach then, as you would've driven away De Gea and Courtois from Man Utd and Atletico for the same reasons you're pointing out.