Shay Given

[Matt C]

Thought Given would have ended up at one of the promoted clubs - think he could do better than Doncaster, frankly but as others have said; at least he wants to play unlike some others.

[Dave]

Thought Given would have ended up at one of the promoted clubs - think he could do better than Doncaster, frankly but as others have said; at least he wants to play unlike some others.

I'm not sure he'd be first choice at Cardiff or Palace, and Hull have signed McGregor now.

Either a trip to the Championship or up to Celtic if the Ruddy --> Chelsea and Forster --> Norwich things happen would be my assumption.

[Matt C]

Celtic is good shout.

[SoccerHQ]

Not unless Fraser Forster goes anywhere.

[villan from luton]

As recently said by others, my worry is what actually Doncaster are paying towards the wages. If I recall correctly, they were paying £2k towards Beyes wage FFS.

[Toronto Villa]

Looks like Shay will join Liverpool over the weekend. Permanent deal.

[Diablo]

Looks like Shay will join Liverpool over the weekend. Permanent deal.

Good move for him (and us as Lambert obviously wants him off the wage bill). Good goalie and professional - best of luck to him :-) If we can shift a couple more that've been frozen out we may get that creative midfielder we so desperately need. In other news... I see Kaka wants to leave Real ;-)

[ozzjim]

Great for us if he does. And Mingolet may have looked good at VP, but I could see him losing his place over the season, he was poor at times for Sunderland I thought.

[TheSandman]

Best of luck to Shay if he moves. A top, top professional who I think suffered for moving to us at the wrong time. A good move for him too if it comes off.

[PeterWithesShin]

Best of luck to him.

[eamonn]

Think he's kidding himself to be honest. Fair enough, he's not going to lose out on wages but he's just going to be number two at a slightly better team. Mignolet was signed for big money - ten million and is going to be their regular number one hence Reina leaving for the season. Should have went to Donny or wherever cos he's just swapped getting splinters in his big arse from a different bench.

[PeterWithesShin]

He wasn't even getting splinter for us though. Maybe he has enough faith in his ability to think that if he is as a club that wants him he still has a chance to be number 1?

[Toronto Villa]

Between Shay and Bent that's us saving around £130k a week in wages or around £6.75m a year. Good business for us indeed.

[eamonn]

He wasn't even getting splinter for us though. Maybe he has enough faith in his ability to think that if he is as a club that wants him he still has a chance to be number 1?

His faith is misguided then. He's a veteran goalkeeper covering another veteran goalkeeper who  ironically has actually moved to a club in the Champions League where he will start.

Liverpool don't even have the Europa League to give Given enough games to tick-over. I thought he wanted to play every week. It seems he values an ego-boost more.

I've more respect for Gareth Barry who has moved down a rung to get games.

[Toronto Villa]

Eamonn, with all due respect, what the hell does it matter what his reason is for going there? He's been professional for us despite being cast aside, and he's going save us a lot of money every week by leaving. Good bye, good luck etc etc.