Benjamin Siegrist

Same, hope he does well.

 

Confirmed away to Italy on holiday for 6 months

 

Played for Genoa V Napoli yesterday and did well despite the 2-2 draw, I thought he was in Romania?

Just seen your post above Crow and my English is bad enough but poor man had to play whilst on holiday

 

In fairness to the guy, he is (or at least was, considering it’s been a while since I’ve seen him play) a decent enough goalkeeper. In fact, he’d still probably do a job for most of the top sides in our league, to be honest. For us, he was more in the mould of a traditional backup goalie (i.e. a steady pair of hands who would probably be the other domestic side’s no.1) and less of Sinisalo (i.e. a genuine successor) but it still feels like he could’ve had a more productive time here.

Not that I think he was ever really going to be given regular, or even semi-regular, game time, but his shenanigans on the Australian tour seemingly killed whatever scant prospects he had here dead. It was just a bit of a silly way to carry on, especially for a guy that’s never really had proper run or established himself outside of his time with Dundee United.

 

That Eddie Pearson from Celtic Underground said we were warned off signing Siegrest

 

That’s interesting, I’ve never heard about that before. I take it he’s suggesting there were issues while he was at United then?

 

Aye would appear that way bud

 

I was watching that Napoli V Genoa game and noticed the name Siegrist on the back of his top and was thinking did we have a keeper called that, shows how little he played. Had to google him to make sure it was him who was with us