Martin Dubravka from Sparta Prague

[Curian]

Goalkeeper: Medical tonight. So that's three loanees in and a couple out on loan.

[Jammy89]

Looks decent from clips i've seen.

Mind you, i'd look a decent prospect if you edited properly

[sherwoodmag]

Did he sign on time? He is not on BBCs list of signings.

[Zippity]

Talking of 'keepers, was Darlow at fault last night at all? Only saw it as it happened and it looked like you could either argue he was unlucky his initial reaction didn't get it over the bar or that he didn't get a strong enough hand on it and should have done better?

Mind, his distribution is worse than any 'keeper we've had in years. More or less every single goal kick went to the opposition. At the end i was screaming for him not to take that free kick because I knew it would end up on a Burnley head and, sure enough, it did...but not a player who had to win it-a Burnley player in acres of space. ffs

[Andy1981_2]

Talking of 'keepers, was Darlow at fault last night at all? Only saw it as it happened and it looked like you could either argue he was unlucky his initial reaction didn't get it over the bar or that he didn't get a strong enough hand on it and should have done better?

Mind, his distribution is worse than any 'keeper we've had in years. More or less every single goal kick went to the opposition. At the end i was screaming for him not to take that free kick because I knew it would end up on a Burnley head and, sure enough, it did...but not a player who had to win it-a Burnley player in acres of space. ffs

I'd say he was unlucky on this occasion - he didn't have a lot of time to react to get more on it, and it he'd pushed it a few centimetres higher it would have bounced back out. He has other faults, but this wasn't his doing. Plus, if Joselu had put the penalty away it would have been irrelevant, so doubly unfortunate in a way.

Don't know anything about this Dubravka guy, but I wasn't particularly keen to hear him described as 'competition' by Rafa... we need to be bringing in someone who can keep out the current keepers, not be battling with them. Might just be poorly expressed. Even though I haven't seen him I do prefer him to Joe Hart though

[Jammy89]

Last night i'd say unlucky - other times just poor though. Agree about his distribution.

All good things written about him in the chronicle. Seems he is the ball playing keeper that Rafa has wanted. I expect him to go straight in really.

Main worry is that under weakness, it said pressure got to him in their CL games. Well he'll have pressure here to.

[TheOtherTerryMac]

Darlow is a terrible keeper his distribution is woefull, never comes for crosses and doesn’t talk to his defenders.