Joe Lumley

Yes, it shakes your faith in football scouting, that we signed him after how he played for QPR and how Reading signed him after he played for us.

Come to think of it it’s not just the scouts that can’t have noticed his howlers our manager kept picking him!
 
Boro boss Neil Warnock told the club’s website: "I'm delighted to have signed Joe. I've always rated him highly and I look forward to him joining us.
"I know he's excited about coming here and he can't wait to play in front of the Riverside crowd."
 
Perhaps he won a competition to play football, like the guy who won that lovely Cornwall home a couple of days ago, but selected to go 'no publicity.'
 
Not sure all QPR fans did warn us about him to be honest. Don't get me wrong, he was shocking for us. But some of their fans, at the time he signed, thought he was decent, but they just had better.

Similar to Bettinelli (didn't he make an England squad at one point?) we seemed to pick him up at exactly the wrong time. Previously decent to good, but on a seemingly downward trajectory. Can't see him coming back from it despite being relatively young.

Strange position goalkeeper. Theoretically you can play at a top level well into your 30s. But there's loads of examples of keepers just losing form and dropping a level in their 20s. Joe Hart, Paul Robinson, Chris Kirkland, Jack Butland being high profile examples.

Be a good article for the athletic or a podcast for Ben Foster as to why it happens.
 
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