FM 18 Best Goalkeepers — Top 13. Click on the images for better definition.
Manuel Neuer
Age: 31
Nationality: German
Club: Bayern Munich
Personality: Driven
Media Description: Elite goalkeeper
Value: 60m GBP
The Bayern Munich goalkeeper is probably the best in the world, no wonder why the FM team gave him the biggest number in terms of current ability.
David De Gea
Age: 26
Nationality: Spanish
Club: Man United
Personality: Light-hearted
Media Description: Elite goalkeeper
Value: 52m GBP
The Spanish international «guardameta» has a lot of talent, with room for improvement, as he is 26 years old, a young age for a keeper.
Gianluigi Buffon
Age: 39
Nationality: Italian
Club: Juventus
Personality: born leader
Media Description: Elite goalkeeper
Value: 5m GBP
Buffon is a legendary keeper, many of us had the honor to manage him in the CM series when he was in Parma or just moved to «La Vecchia Signora» in that team with Del Piero and Nedved. Almost 40 years old he is playing in the elite of football, with a move to Paris ST Germain in 2019.
Marc Andre Ter Stegen:
Age: 23
Nationality: German
Club: Barcelona
Personality: Perfectionist
Media Description: Elite goalkeeper
Value: 47m GBP
Andre is a firm candidate to become the main goalkeeper of the German National team and to do the same at the Catalan side. It’s fair to recall that Ter Stegen was a PA of -10 in a couple of older FM versions.
Thibaut Courtois
An amazing goalkeeper who had a great world cup in Russia in 2014 and got a transfer back to Madrid, but this time not to Atletico, this time to «The White House», Real Madrid.
Age: 25
Nationality: Belgium
Club: Chelsea
Personality: Spirited
Media Description: Elite goalkeeper
Value: 49m GBP
Jan Oblak:
Age: 24
Nationality: Slovenia
Club: Atletico Madrid
Personality: Ambitious
Media Description: Elite goalkeeper
Value: 44m GBP
What a great signing Diego Simeone and the Atletico Madrid board did with Jan Oblak. He had the difficult task of replacing Thibout Courtois, and he did it great. He was a bargain(13m) considering his actual market value.
Keylor Navas:
Age: 30
Nationality: Costa Rica/Spanish
Club: Real Madrid
Personality: model professional
Media Description: goalkeeper
Value: 44m GBP
Though he performed very good in his seasons at Real Madrid, winning several European Champion League Cups in a row, Florentino Perez, the Real president, decided to buy Thibout Courtois, which was somehow an unfair move for the «tico» keeper since he always show that he was more than up for the challenge of defending the Real Madrid’s goal.
Hugo Lloris
Age: 30
Nationality: French
Club: Tottenham
Personality: professional
Media Description: Elite goalkeeper
Value: 42m GBP
Hugo is a keeper who was spotted early on by the FM scouts when he was playing in Lyon, now in Tottenham, delivering solid performances, this year at 30 years ago he reached the top of his career as the goalkeeper of the French squad who won the World Cup in Russia 2014.
Ederson
Age: 23
Nationality: Brazil/Portugal
Club: Man City
Personality: Spirited
Media Description: Goalkeeper
Value: 30.5m GBP
Man City had to put a lot of money for the keeper that Guardiola wanted, he had a good year with Man City winning the Premier League, but his performance in the Brazilian squad were not good enough to avoid the Verdeamarelha to leave a very poor impression in the ex Soviet Union.
Petr Cech
Age: 35
Nationality: Czech
Club: Arsenal
Personality: model professional
Media Description: Elite goalkeeper
Value: 15m GBP
An experienced and classic keeper slowly getting to the end of his glorious career. He was a guarantee of quality performances wherever he played, and he still is.
Jordan Pickford
Age: 23
Nationality: English
Club: Everton
Personality: fairly professional
Media Description: goalkeeper
Value: 22m GBP
A young keeper already consolidated in an important Premier League team with lots of room for improvement, plus he is an English passport holder. He was one of Englands stars in Russia 2014 World Cup, and it’s not hard to imagine to see him moving to one of the elite teams of the world in the near future.
Gianluigi Donnarumma
Age: 18
Nationality: Spanish
Club: Man United
Personality: fairly determined
Media Description: wonderkid
Value: 20.5 GBP
This Italian wonderkid is the future(and present) of goalkeeping, only 18 years old, he was capped by the Italian National side and has a PA of -10 .
His current ability is impressive for such a young age.
Allison Becker
Age: 24
Nationality: Brazil
Club: Roma
Personality: resilient
Media Description: goalkeeper
Value: 15.5m GBP
A great keeper with some talent who got rewarded with a millionaire transfer from Roma to Liverpool to replace the German keeper who moved to Besiktas.
Will he live up to the expectations of the Liverpool fans and his manager Kloop?
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