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Leeds fans react as new goalie is club priority

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OPINION

Leeds are going to be in the market for a new goalkeeper in January after their Chelsea loanee Jamal Blackman broke his leg and had his loan spell cut short – according to the Yorkshire Evening Post, it’s a “priority” for the club. Blackman’s on his way back to Stamford Bridge with a sense that things could have worked out very differently for him. Current number one Bailey Peacock-Farrell has come in for a lot of criticism recently and there was a growing call for Blackman to get his chance in the first-team.

However, that’s all a matter of conjecture. As is who Leeds are going to bring in either to be back-up to Peacock-Farrell, or to be the new number one. It might seem harsh on Peacock-Farrell if he was demoted, but he has made a number of mistakes and every point counts on the run-in to promotion.

One name that is being talked about a lot on Twitter is 33-year-old David Stockdale. The Birmingham keeper has been frozen out of the first-team set-up at Birmingham and hasn’t even been making the squad, despite making 36 appearances for them in the Championship last season.

Leeds Live have said that would be one deal that would be easy to do in January but would the Leeds fans want him? We trawled Twitter to find out.

One fan doesn’t think that he’d be an upgrade on Peacock-Farrell, which would mean he would probably be back-up to the youngster if he did make the switch. Another was even tougher, saying that he was “pretty much BPF’s dad”.

However, there are fans who rate Stockdale higher though. Neil Burrows said that he’d take Stockdale or Kieran Westwood and another fan agreed, but said he want Tom Heaton ahead of Westwood.

One fan asked if Leeds could take a goalkeeper on an emergency loan but that’s not possible as Leeds still have a number one. If anything happened to Peacock-Farrell or he was suspended, that situation would change.

CONCLUSION

The majority of Leeds fans think that Stockdale is a decent option. Most of the chat seems to be about Tom Heaton but there are many Leeds fans who don’t think their club would be able to land him in January. Stockdale is definitely an option that would be fairly straightforward to complete if Leeds wanted him. 

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