Matt Turner is headed to South London for his next opportunity of his club career.
Turner has joined Crystal Palace on a season-long loan spell from Nottingham Forest, both clubs announced Friday. The 30-year-old joins up with U.S. men’s national team teammate Chris Richards at Selhurst Park.
Sam Johnstone’s transfer to Wolves opened up the door for Crystal Palace to acquire Turner.
“I’m really excited to be here – and I’m ready to get to work,” Turner said in a club interview. “I’ve heard a lot about [goalkeeping coach] Dean Kiely from Wayne Hennessey, and obviously Dean [Henderson] and Remi [Matthews] have got a lot of experience, so it’ll be great to get to know them, learn how they work, support them in whatever ways I can, but also push them to be the best versions of themselves.”
Turner originally made the move to the City Ground last summer in a permanent deal from Arsenal. He proceeded to make 21 combined appearances under both Steve Cooper and Nuno Espirito Santo, however mainly featured as a backup during the second half of the season.
Forest’s summer signing of Brazilian goalkeeper Miguel dropped Turner to third on the club’s depth chart this season.
Turner, a former New England Revolution standout, has earned 44 caps with the USMNT to date.
The Eagles travel to London rivals Chelsea on Sunday, seeking their first league win of the season.
Palace also just signed Chalobah from Chelsea, so I wonder if his signing hinders Chris Richards minutes at all?!
Nah. Ghuei was sold.
I’m pretty sure Guehi stayed.
Palace did just buy 24 year old center back Max Lacroix from Wolfsburg for 18 million. He French and Glasner has managed him before.
And Guehi is staying.
Is this a starting gig or a backup job? I know nothing about CP’s keeper situation.
He will compete with Dean Henderson for the starting GK.
I think he’d be backing up Henderson. Palace hasn’t seem to try very hard to win in cup games since Richards has been there either. Seems slightly better than Forest situation I guess.
my guess is they shake the rust off him over a few weeks then hand him the job. turner was basically henderson’s forest replacement. henderson had a very meh 1.67 GAA last year which was probably tolerated when they were midtable with a flat GD. they are now near bottom and he has a 2 GAA. they then go out and sign an american 1 keeper right at the deadline after watching that start to the season. dude’s either on thin ice or demoted. read between the lines. the only question is what shape is turner in to play how soon.
Maybe, but consider these three items
-straight loan with no option to buy, doubtful NF blocked the buy option on their #4 keeper
-Palace had just sold their backup earlier this week
– last season errors leading to goals stat Turner 3 Henderson 1. Goals prevented Turner -5.45 Henderson -2.07, Henderson this year 4.03 xGOT to 4GA basically he hasn’t stood on his head but he’s stopped what he should and conceded what he should (although a pretty small statistical sample just 2 matches)
they played a similar amount of games last year and henderson shipped more goals for a better team that finished several slots higher with 10 fewer GA. if turner gives a near-relegation team a better keeping outcome than a midtable keeper, why am i searching for random stats trying to make the midtable guy look better?
and to me if guy B replaces A at team C, and then team D signs one then the other, my bet is B beats out A again. and that any team bringing in one after the other knowing the history is making precisely that upgrade itself.
it’s a season long loan, not an emergency or 6 month one, so there’s not a risk they start using him then he leaves while the season is going. it does mean the auction will reopen, but CP can bid — or perhaps even buy partway through — they will just bear the risk that he does well and the price goes up. that’s what the option really does, is set that price now instead of later.
the article suggested sold. loan is different, true.
IV: when I saw maybe I really do mean you may end up right. I know you don’t like stats that people didn’t track in 90s but xGot tells teams a lot especially over the course of a season. The bigger one is the errors leading to goals 3 gaffes in 17 matches is a lot. Forest just lost trust in him even though his numbers were comparable if not better than Sels. Henderson hasn’t been the same since an injury and his Man U benching though either.
Henderson was a big deal for a while when Man U. brought him in to replace DeGea. That did not go according to plan for a number of reasons, Henderson wound up at Forest, hurt his knee and moved on to Palace.
If Henderson is back to his best??? Matt won’t see a minute.
But if Dean is not at his best and Matt is at his best then it gets interesting.
Two flawed retreads.
Palace fans were not happy with the move on Twitter yesterday.
JR,
I’m a fan of Matt’s but he is not easy on the eyes if you are a neutral. And his footwork and his distribution can be downright terrifying.
He needs to get off to a good start. Still, I see this as a more or less legit opportunity and that is encouraging.
I’m with you. So wanted and still want Turner to succeed, but his time in the PL has been…. cringey, hard to watch. It’s not only been the distribution, the mistakes, it’s been how shaky and nervous he looks in general. In addition to avoiding gaffes, making saves- a starting GK has to be much more, has to rule his box, be someone that leads, inspires confidence in his defense and team. Sad to say but thus far he’s been the opposite- a deer in the headlights. I hope he takes this fresh start by the scruff and turns it around.