Roy has said that Guaita is unhappy with being forced to compete with Johnstone and has refused to play in our friendlies so far.

“He (Sam Johnstone) is the only choice at the moment because Guaita is disenchanted with the club and has said he would like to move on. A complication is that he has a year’s contract. It’s up to the club to decide, not him. He’s made it clear to everybody he doesn’t want to be here and compete with Sam Johnstone. So Sam Johnstone is No 1 and Remi Matthews is No 2.”

Have always loved Vicente so a very disappointing end to his time at the club if that proves to be the case.

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From the horses mouth

Life is the same as it always will be,
Easy as picking foxes from a tree.
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I always liked him, good goalie, seemed a good character and well within his right to desire the no.1 spot but if that’s his attitude he can fu€k off quite frankly, shame.

Could always just stick him on a goal line by the bench and he’d never be inclined to move from it!

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Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

I may be in a minority here , but for me Guiata is still the best keeper at the club.
He’s proven over a number of years for us, has been incredibly consistent and I can only recall one or two incidents where it would be fair to say his mistakes have cost us goals.
This is not to condone his behaviour if he has refused to play, but I would be inclined to reserve judgement until the full facts emerge.
Johnstone has done well over a dozen or so games and deserves his chance, but I would contend that Matthews is not serious competition at Premier League level.

It hasn’t been a great summer so far in terms of news.
Zaha off, Olise injured and then confirmation that clubs are ‘circling,’ speculation around our better players and now the Guiata issue.
The player we sign with tremendous fanfare , Franca, is injured and then there are the injuries to Hughes and Mitchell.
The squad looks stretched.
Roy says he very optimistic that the club will address this by the end of the window, but it sounds that it may go to the wire.
It may be that the fees for the likes of Gray and Adams will come down towards the end of the window and we will wait until the time suits the club.

However, I doubt that the squad at the end of the window will be as strong as the one that finished last season.

Well what a way to tarnish a reputation and relationship,see ya VG

Doing us a favor, not a bad keeper good shot stopper but that's about it, one of the worse no 1s in the division, wouldn't get in any other prem team. Was always a position we could improve on anyway.