The goalkeeper is a crucial playing position for any football team. Goalkeepers are, after all, the only players on the pitch who can stop the ball going in the net with their hands and arms. Having a decent keeper between the goalposts is very important for winning trophies in Football Manager 2024. Handling, reflexes, aerial reach, kicking, agility, and positioning are some of the most important attributes for goalkeepers. These are some of the great goalkeepers in Football Manager 2024 that I recommend signing.
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Justin Bijlow (Feyenoord)
Justin Bijlow is a 25-year-old goalkeeper and sweeper keeper valued between 47-75 million with a good all-round game. He has good 15 and 14 attribute ratings for handling, reflexes, kicking, positioning, command of area, leadership, determination, teamwork, concentration, decisions, composure, anticipation, and one-on-ones. Thus, there aren’t many notable weaknesses in Bijlow’s game, aside from his rather substandard punching of the ball and first touch.
Justin Bijlow
Filip Jorgensen (Villarreal)
Jorgensen is a great young goalkeeper widely regarded to be the best keeper from Scandinavia. His transfer value is 47-69 million in 2023/2024. This is a goalkeeper with excellent reflexes, agility, and aerial reach. He also has very good handling, command of area, one-on-one, positioning, jumping reach, and stamina with ratings of 15 for those attributes. Filip is already a great goalkeeper at 21 with the potential to become one of the top keepers in the world.
Filip Jorgensen
Illan Meslier (Leeds Utd)
Illan Meslier is a promising and relatively affordable 23-year-old French goalkeeper who has already played for France. This goalkeeper has excellent 17 ratings for aerial reach, jumping reach, and one-on-one attributes. Agility, reflexes, rushing out, bravery, and natural fitness are other notable strengths of Meslier’s game. He is valued at 33-40 million, which makes him a cheaper transfer target than Jorgensen, Bijlow, and Mamardashvili.
Illan Meslier
Giorgi Mamardashvili (Valencia)
The Georgian Mamardashvili is one of the hottest young keepers in European football. This is a goalkeeper with great reflexes, box command, and communication. He also has very decent attribute ratings of 15 and 14 for ball handling, kicking, aerial reach, jumping reach, strength, passing, rushing out, determination, concentration, bravery, and agility.
Georgian Mamardashvili
Mamardashvili is quite an expensive goalkeeper to sign with a transfer value of 86 million. However, note that Liverpool recently signed this goalkeeper for 25 million with a four million add-on in real-world football. So, it might be possible for you to snap up Giorgi for less than 40 million in Football Manager 2024, just like Liverpool did.
Luiz Junior (Famalicao)
Luiz is a decent Brazilian goalkeeper who can potentially become a top-class one. This goalkeeper is outstanding at rushing out from his line and has great reflexes and jumping reach. Junior is also a keeper with good handling, concentration, one-on-one, and bravery attribute ratings of 15 and 14. However, positioning and ball punching are notable weaknesses of his game.
Luiz Junior
Junior is among the youngest and most affordable keepers recommended here with a 19-28 million transfer value. Mamardashvili and Jorgensen are better goalkeepers in Football Manager 2024. However, Luiz is a good alternative transfer target if you can’t afford to sign the more expensive goalkeepers in Football Manager 2024 recommended here. There’s much potential for Junior’s attribute ratings to increase because he’s a 22-year-old player about eight years short of peak goalkeeper age.
David De Gea
David De Gea is a renowned goalkeeper (capped 45 times for Spain) who’s a free agent in Football Manager 2024. He has amazing reflexes with a rating of 19 for that attribute. De Gea is also a goalkeeper with excellent 16-17 attribute ratings for agility, natural fitness, aerial reach, and determination.
David De Gea
Admittedly, De Gea has some notable goalkeeping weaknesses. His composure, throwing, passing, and (most significantly) command of the area attributes are quite poor. This is also a 32-year-old goalkeeper who lacks the future potential of other recommended keepers here. Nevertheless, David is still a great goalkeeper in Football Manager 2024 certainly worth signing in 2023 with a free transfer.
Signing those great goalkeepers in Football Manager 2024 will likely reduce the number of goals scored against your teams. Sure, it’s always important for football teams to have strong defenses. However, goalkeepers are the players who have the most direct impact on how many goals sides concede.
