kazza » Mon Feb 17, 2020 5:59 am wrote:ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun Feb 16, 2020 4:41 pm wrote:Glad someone mentioned him, he’s been brilliant ever since he arrived but his game seems to have gone up another level the past 2 or 3 months, he’s just got an air about him like Ray Clemence used to have, in that black kit he’s becoming more than a goalie, he’s becoming an icon.
I’m 52 and remember Clemence, he made me want to play as a keeper but I do feel that Allison is the best keeper we ever had. We have missed a truly world class keeper for so long and now we have him. As you said he has that air about him that help our defenders play better knowing they can trust him and it also gets in the mind of the other teams playing against us. Imagine being them, they have all to do to get around VVD and if they manage that they then need to get round Allison. Not surprising that we keep so many clean sheets.
Alisson has got a long, long way to go before he can be compared to Ray Clemence mate, Ray played 660 games for the club and kept 330 clean sheets, Ray got into the side during Shankly’s lean years in that period when we were drifting and left 11 years later after our 3rd European Cup win, Clemence also won 2 UEFA Cups back in the days before the CL when there wasn’t actually much difference between the European and UEFA Cups.
The 2 teams we beat in our 2 UEFA Cup finals (Bruges and Borussia Monchengladbach) we also beat in our first 2 European Cup finals so there was a lot of crossover between the 2 tournaments, plus when we won the UEFA Cup in 76 we had to go to the Nou Camp and beat a Barcelona side who had a prime Johan Cruyff in their line up, Cruyff was the most expensive player in history at the time so that’s the type of quality the UEFA Cup had in it back then. Alisson is doing terrific but he has to keep this up for a long period of time before he can be compared to Ray.