Iker Casillas, Spain and Real Madrid captain, has today claimed that Joe Hart is too good for a club like Manchester City, and should instead consider a move to Manchester United to replace Edwin Van der Sar when he retires.
Casillas, who has won a whole host of individual awards for his ability, reckons there’s something special about Hart and hopes he has a clause in his contract which will get him out of playing for City for when they don’t qualify for the Champions League.
“Teams like Manchester United and AC Milan have ageing keepers and Joe would be perfect for either of them,” said Casillas. “If I am being honest, over the last five years I don’t think there has been a keeper close to Gigi Buffon, or myself. But from what I have seen of Joe Hart, he really can be great. When Buffon and I are well into our 30s Joe will be at his peak and I expect him to be the number one keeper in the world. Everything he does is so natural and he has that goalkeeper’s instinct, which you can’t just learn. But like so many of City’s players, Hart needs to play Champions League football. If he doesn’t get it, he won’t stay. I think it’s fine if you want to go and be part of the revolution at City. But I would suggest all players write clauses into their contract about being able to leave the club if they don’t make it into the Champions League.”
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City would never sell hart to us
Why dont ya come yourself fella…..
absolutely right he is… but i’d take diego benaglio from wolfsburg….
hart is a good keeper..probably the best England have had in a long time..but I dont see him coming to us..
Speaks sense does old Iker. Hart is a quality, quality GK, but yeah, he’ll never be OUR quality, quality GK.
Sell Van Der Sar
Sign Taibi : )
What is cassilas talking about? In the last five years no one has came close to you or buffon? I think you’ll find one certain dutchman who has matched you or even surpassed you at times despite his veteran age, edwin van der sar has being one of the greatest goal keepers and still is, talk about massaging your ego and buffon is 32 now so your talking absolute tripe.
However, i agree that joe hart is an improvement on england’s traditional production of disastrous keepers, e.g calamity james, jelly hands green e.t.c, the city keeper seems assured, confident, great shot stopper and makes more right decisions than wrong, perhaps england have found a solution to there keeping problem but time will tell.
I doubt city would sell him to united though, it would be unlikely to be honest.
“If I am being honest, over the last five years I don’t think there has been a keeper close to Gigi Buffon, or myself.”
A bit arrogant, no?
@Red devil, exactly he’d need to throw one incredible tantrum for him to be released off his contract to join united, city don’t need the money as long as those oil rich fuckers are there, so it ain’t going to happen.
Hart’s decent, but I feel he’s just enjoying his honeymoon period with England – he’s yet to make a mistake in an important game that results in national witch hunt and being dropped like all the others that showed promise.
I would rather sign the crazy German – Neuer .
Off topic because I am bored
Drogba reckons the Chavs will win the Quadruple – after that is already losing a trophy to us – I guess he’s entitled to his delusion : )
Team Bridge isn’t going to get a chance to get a game against Team Terry this weekend because Team Bridge is out for two weeks : )
Wenger got charged and doesn’t know if he should fight the charge – maybe he never saw what he did lol : )
I am trying to do a Berba and run 6 miles a time to get into character but it’s not working as of yet – : )
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Buffon and Casillas?
Just as a 30 goal per season striker can win the league, so can a solid keeper.
They both won a world cup, but in club football they have won sod all between them over the last 5 years. They can’t be that far ahead of other goalkeepers.
Damn..No team Bridge v/s team Terry this weekend..was really looking forward to that..lets see how the pensioners fare against city that actually have a decent back 7(incl the 3 holding midfielders that mankini plays)..
on another news – > http://www.goal.com/en/news/3194/video/2010/09/20/2127307/video-as-sir-alex-ferguson-criticises-fernando-torres-was
A few posts and already Five goalies named we should sign and only One champions league game played phew.As for Drogba’s prediction of the quadruple I think they will win zilch this season in fact in a fortnight’s time I expect United to be top of the league.
He is flying … Nothing else…
I suppose he has not seen VDS and Cech since last many days (though I m not fan of Cech)…
@parryheid
Totally with you on this prediction mate. UNITED will be top come the end of October….
As for the original article, I am surprised that no one actually read the dig at city in Iker’s statement!! Read between the lines guys, he is simply saying that Hart deserves a bigger club…… I found it amusing
Stekelenburg maybe for the next keeper for us ? I don’t think it’s arrogant from Iker to say that he and Gigi have been the best two keepers in the world in recent years , because I have to agree with him . But the third ? Edwin . Still amazes me that he can carry on at this level despite of his age .
Sorry, to rephrase, we will be top MID October
TheSevenOfOT:
I think Stekelenburg would be the perfect fit for us. He’s big and has some insane reflexes too. He was very impressive at the world cup and has started the Euro qualifiers in some style. Also he had a brilliant game against the mob in the CL. Only problem is that he’s 27 but VDS is almost 40 now and it isn’t a problem for him. I think Stekelenburg is the right man to succeed VDS.
Basically Casillas is saying with all the money these Arabs are throwing at Citeh they still do not realize that they will never have a bigger name than Man Utd. You can’t buy history or class and people all over the world will still regard United as simply Manchester.
Joe Hart is a good goal keeper. no doubt about that. but i dont think he can be a utd player any time soon. his only route to us is by first transfering himself to any other club. city wont do a straight business deal with us. thats for sure.
but the one man i would really consider replacing VDS is Davide de Gea. he is young, athletic, tall, dynamic, has a good leap, good at set pieces and in one on one situations. he has tremendous potential. he can be a really great goal keeper. he just ought to be on the scout list.
@parryheid
Quite optimistic given our schedule until then. Hope you are right.
well it was me who gave you the source last nite. he will nevere conme to united. city dont sell to there big rivals .and other news bebe in the carling cup team for 20morrow nite.
I see the government had a massive turnout for the Supporter Ownership debate. Unfortunately, the member for Stretford & Urmston couldn’t attend (due to other commitments) despite receiving over a hundred emails.
The Minister for sport said, “although the issue is widely agreed in this place, it is not entirely shared in the wider football family. There is a battle to be fought to convince the football family of the merits of this case.”
I think the ‘wider football family’ is GovSpeak for a minority of rich, greedy, debt loving Club owners who wish to remain rich, greedy, debt loving Club Owners.
Amos
well well a blog brole the news last nite fergie monrering roanldo it looks like it is true after all goal .com reporting this Manchester United Readying Sensational Bid To Bring Real Madrid Star Cristiano… Goal.com – Transfers . could it be true
man united
i posted the ronaldo story on this yesterday but i see nothing on goal.com about it today
its there all right go to news now it might be there
http://www.goal.com/en/news/article?contentId=2129090
I don’t like watching Real. Has Ronnie’s form really been so bad?
Don’t know what the fuss about Ronaldo is. Real Madrid paid 80m for him. You think after 2 seasons they would be prepared to off load him. Fergie may well be monitoring the situation, but what difference does that make?
If goal.com says it, it has to be true…
Haven’t watched any Real games, but the way Mourinho plays, it only seems natural that Ronaldo won’t get on the scoresheet as often as he did last year. However, he is still a cash cow for Real and the only way I see him leaving them is if they desperately need the cash. Unless something really really dramatic happens, I believe that Ronaldo has played his final game for United.
Ronaldo will have to put up with the twats booing him of course, but what else is new?
I would love it, absolutely love it if (see what i did there) we played His Majesty’s Mob in the first round of the CL knock-out stages. I would certainly fancy our chances.
the best upcoming keeper is de gea by a MILE
he plays for a.madrid.. he is fucking amazing… 18 or 19.. tall… reminds me of VDS… great shot stoppers and commands the area.. kept barcelona at bay.. denied david villa a hat trick with 3 amazing saves…. watch out for him.. he will be class… spanish tho.. but class
This is Real we’re talking about. They do have a staff turnover to rival macdonalds.
Ronaldo was a fucking brilliant player
But he’s gone a little bit chubby and is over 35
Oh wait
: )
@MG re Wenger…LOL..
Iker – surely old age is catching up with you or you haven’t been watching EPL – there’s a certain VDS who’s tops.
Costes it’s Chelsea’s schedule which convinces me plus the fact they are not half as good as the paper sellers think and we are at least twice as good as anybody thinks.
Come tomorrow evening how do you think the paper sellers will explain the shift in opinion regarding Bebe if he puts in a decent display or do you think they will just ignore him.Bebe will be playing and if he continues on from his reserve outing when he got panned unfairly I would like to think the United supporters would bombard them with complaints.Good thing it will viewed by football fans while not United supporters will be able to judge for themselves whether Dud or Talented.
@parryheid
When it comes to Bebe and the rags, there’s the Daily Fail and then there’s everyone else. No matter what happens tomorrow, the former won’t have a good word to say…
Chelsea’s schedule will definitely be more challeging over the next month. The concern I have, is next week when we play at Bolton, at Valencia and at Sunderland within 6 days. And truth be told, we have to win all 3 of them.
It takes a special talent like Casillas to spot another. He has nothing to gain from saying it honestly.
VDS will be hard to replace, but City will never sell Hart, especially to United. We need to look elsewhere for sure.
I would appreciate to see Manuel Neuer in OT in the future years.
some insane reflexes and his throws are damn precise.
perfect for our counter football.
And i think every englishman knows about his shot strenght
Cocky bastard. Yeah Hart is a brilliant keeper but he will never play for us! Neuer maybe.
p.s can we stop posting shitty articles from goal.com? It is a shit site full of complete bollocks, or stuff that they steal from other sites without crediting them.
@ Joseph – why the fuck would any of us want to read that sorry excuse for an article? It’s quoting references from fucking youtube comments!
Costas.
I understand that and mentally I already have that as a given we have Two league wins Valencia away Eeksie peeksie minimum draw methinks as they are playing well in their league so far.
I’m with Passe_Mouraille on this one, the guy at Ajax looks like a good replacement for EVS, not convinced on the German guy, or the French guy from Lyon.
jiust listing to the marca radio in spain and they are picking up what goal.com reported they say the transfer is possible but its up to roanldo.. renmber when he was at unite he wanted to leave and got his wish so the sanme could happen toinght . the marca radio will try and find out more toinght
Come on people what is this, Ronaldo back at OT give me a fekkin break. If Fergie says there isn’t any value in the transfer market why on earth would he spend 100 fekkin million on Ronaldo. Wheres the value in that. 2nd last year in the league due to a timid 0-0 with Blackburn and knocked out of the champions league on away goals. That needs 100 million to push us on to the next level, give me a fuckin break. Ronaldo is not value for money. Sure he is by far the best player in the world but if any of you have been watching United since he left goals havent been hard to come by, creating of chances haven’t dropped off in any way. If anything we create more chances from a greater variety of sources rather than relying on one man to do the job. If United sign Ronaldo then it will only be down to the fact that sir alex is a genious and managed to convince the fascists that they need to sell him for 30 million tops. Can the muppets on here stop panicking. We’ve played chelsea in the shield and won – convincingly. We beat new comers and high flyers newcastle – convincingly. We beat in every sense of the word Everton apart from the result which was a mental slip and the same can go for Fulham (last years europa league finalists). We pounded the brick wall of Rangers without reply, we ripped apart the passionate twats from dipperville. Ronaldo wouldnt have brought stability in any of those matches as 1, against rangers he probably would have been dropped like the rest of them and against Everton and Fulham would have been one of the guilty not takling back.
Give it a rest United has played decent opposition and Chelsea have played shite, we are by far the better team and we will reclaim our crown and get no19. Faith lads faith. and Ronaldo you made you bed you should lie in it mate and not run away at the first sign of adversity. Beds are for lying in and knobbing your bird, not looking pretty with a nice throw and fluffy cusions and something to sit on the edge of so you can jack into a test tube to get a woman pregnant. nuff said. The goat has ranted.
ronaldo coming back to Utd…lol..the kind of shite the media comes up with when they are jobless…
i think casillas knows city would never let hart come to utd i just think he’s saying city are a small time club and hart would be better served elsewere
Agree with McQueen, goal.com is the shittest mag ever. They got like about 2 good articles out of every 10 i guess…And when they don’t have to write about anything, they conjure up such fantasies…
It’s fun to read all these articles nevertheless!
Ron back with us? Too good to be true… Nice work, goal.com…Any openings?
Ron back would unsettle the team imho… Wats ur say?
Come on we weren’t born yesterday, most are aware of goal.com being shite. Tell us something we don’t know. There’s a rumour came out of the club and they’ve jumped on it. Their jumping on it doesn’t mean a rumour came out of the club ffs.
* doesn’t mean a rumour didn’t come out of the club ffs
hang on
yeah that’s right lol
the only chance ron’s coming back to utd will be on a free when his contract runs out or a year before if he wants out utd are not going to pay 100mill for him
Give tat 100 mil and clone fergie.
100mil no no.
60m or less yes
besides, Valencia won’t be out for ever, Nani has improved and the boss has made other small investments up front and on the wings, Hargo returning etc. Looking good.
even though its not going to happen..i believe if ronnie wanted to come back here, lets say next summer for instance not one person here would have anything against it, and if they did they are lying or just plain stupid.
RedGem
RE RE Wenger
LOL back : )
not joe hart. De gea from Atletico Madrid. Hart is probably the best english keeper, but the best of a bad lot is not THE best. would rather us get Given.
gIVE AMOS THE chance.Why dont we give our keeper chances.I would want to see amos playing tommorow.Believe in our youth players.
“If I am being honest, over the last five years I don’t think there has been a keeper close to Gigi Buffon, or myself.”
Yes, I’d say VDS as well
But I agree that Hart is too much for City and it won’t take long till he joins the “This is how it feels to be City” campaign. He’ll realize that he’s investing his efforts and age in the wrong place. We’ll see~
roanldo story is now all over the web.
casillas is full of shite….buffon and i are the best my ass
It is a bit sad that none of Aron Ramsey, Gareth Bale, Danny Wilson, Jack Rodwell, Phil Jones or Joe Hart plays for us. We have always had a British base and as talent in the UK is thinning out we really need to be proactive in getting class British youngsters onto our books.
“But like so many of City’s players, Hart needs to play Champions League football. If he doesn’t get it, he won’t stay. I think it’s fine if you want to go and be part of the revolution at City. But I would suggest all players write clauses into their contract about being able to leave the club if they don’t make it into the Champions League.” …. its so fucking obvious to every1 sane except the delusional shitty
he said nobody has come near him or Buffon. That’s very true.
Becos Casillas and Buffon are very far behind VDS. Nobody has come close to him or Buffon, but they also have not come close to VDS.
Even mentioning VDS in the same line with the likes of Casillas and Buffon is just too stupid.
But anyway, Hart really should come to Manchester.
“But I would suggest all players write clauses into their contract about being able to leave the club if they don’t make it into the Champions League”.
I’d suggest that Casillas has some shit ideas.
VDS deservs his place along with those two as the best keepers in the last 10or so years. I rate Given over hurt. a keeper is not only a shot stoper he must organize the defence and i think hurt is yet to prove himself at the top level.
Who the fuck does the fascist poster boy think he is? Not fit to lace Edwin’s gloves.
the thing is, hes right. hart is a ideal replacement for VDS.i highly doubt that he would leave the ‘best’ club in the world to come to united