Long balls...

[sinkov]

What's Billy Mercer doing these days? He'd sort our Aro out within a fortnight.

I don't think he would to be honest, the things Aro lacks as a goalkeeper, positional sense, knowing when to come for a cross, when to stay put etc are innate, they can be marginally improved upon, but if the basic goalkeeping skills aren't there to start with, any goalkeeping coach is wasting his time. Aro just isn't a good/natural keeper and no amount of coaching will ever make him one. IMO.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I don't think he would to be honest, the things Aro lacks as a goalkeeper, positional sense, knowing when to come for a cross, when to stay put etc are innate, they can be marginally improved upon, but if the basic goalkeeping skills aren't there to start with, any goalkeeping coach is wasting his time. Aro just isn't a good/natural keeper and no amount of coaching will ever make him one. IMO.

Cast your mind back a decade or two mon ami, the goalkeepers I played with used to dig their heels into the turf and make visible signs of where the posts where and had a huge line drawn where the centre of the goal was. Whatever happened to that practice?

I think you are wrong on the "innate" bit otherwise their would be no need for football coaches.