We defended shockingly at times, but it will happen time and time again and thats where De Gea shined, bailing us out and winning points for us. Romero just isnt that keeper, and his little mistakes here and there make the whole team nervous. The standard is high and De Gea was as good as we could hope, which Romero just isnt.
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I don't think Romero is a good long term solution for United's number 1 but chris this thread made me think that I was in goal today.Players do have bad games.
That saying if he carries on this kind of performance for the next 1-2 games he will surely be dropped for whoever that remains at our club.
That saying if he carries on this kind of performance for the next 1-2 games he will surely be dropped for whoever that remains at our club.
He's not a United quality #1. Simple as.
That really was terrible for the second goal. That should not be going past a premiership goalkeeper.
Feck the reputation. Judge him by his performances and those of the players around him, who today were quite poor.
Spurs and Villa I don't think he had much to do. Newcastle had zero shots on target and I remembering him rushing out to the ball once and being caught in no mans land. Today he made a massive mistake.
De Gea did well even when his surrounding players were playing poor so Romero can't have that excuse imo
No he had a bit to do v Spurs. They had some decent shots on goal towards the end. DDG was widely mocked when he first got here, so a player being nervous or conceding a goal he shouldn't have should be expected from time to time. Stop being so fecking judgemental and look at the big picture, which is LvG is not doing his job properly.
Ok but Romero is 28 and has been to a world cup final...you would hope he would be less nervous than a weak 20 year old De Gea.
Yeah I agree about LVG but I just don't see what you're seeing in Romero and I can't just ignore his rep tbh. He's really not good enough to be our number 1 if De Gea goes
Properly shite from him. Get DDG in i dont care if he leaves he will win us points.
Romero is ticking time bomb with DDG had a wonderfully past season and any drop in quality by Romero would be getting a stick.He don't have same quality as DDG , simple has that and mistakes are bound to happen and better to start leaving with it.
We've actually been fortunate he's not had to do anything in his previous games. Lindegard or Johnstone should be starting games.
Romero is sketchy as hell but he at least has the ability on the ball. That said,Johnstone is decent with the ball at his feet too.
He's let in a goal sell him quick he's clearly shit.
That's it for him. Looked shaky as feck today.
For some reason Lindegaard is also in doghouse along with Dave and Valdes.
I really hope we keep DDG or we will be fecked with Romero in goal all season.
first big test and he failed it.....
doesn't mean he's an awful keeper but we could probably do better even with 2 days left....
you have to question the decision to not play De Gea
doesn't mean he's an awful keeper but we could probably do better even with 2 days left....
you have to question the decision to not play De Gea
If looking for inevitable scapegoat you can also blame De Gea for his 'professionalism'.
Romero was signed as a backup but the thing is he somehow miraculously wants to play for this club. Rare thing these days ?
Romero was signed as a backup but the thing is he somehow miraculously wants to play for this club. Rare thing these days ?
Club want to get rid of him long ago.Why do people surprise?
Why though? Is he worse than Romero?
What is this new trend of getting new keepers and putting the old ones in the stands?
Did we need Valdes? Did we need Romero? Why is the De Gea situation, still a situation?
think of the four goals conceded by us last season vs Swansea And then see the goals conceded today. We conceded soft goals last time too.
No one said he is de gea but other than 3 keepers(ddg courtois and neuer) in the world today, everyone makes mistakes. Lloris makes enough mistakes to write a book, Cech makes mistakes (the first 2 games for arsenal for instance), every one of the PL keepers make mistakes. hell even de gea made some mistakes end of last season.
No one is saying he is de gea including LvG but the bashing by all the people who seem to have come out of hiding to say 'I always knew he was useless. I have been watching him since he was born' is cringeworthy.
No one said he is de gea but other than 3 keepers(ddg courtois and neuer) in the world today, everyone makes mistakes. Lloris makes enough mistakes to write a book, Cech makes mistakes (the first 2 games for arsenal for instance), every one of the PL keepers make mistakes. hell even de gea made some mistakes end of last season.
No one is saying he is de gea including LvG but the bashing by all the people who seem to have come out of hiding to say 'I always knew he was useless. I have been watching him since he was born' is cringeworthy.
Back up keeper !
We wanted to get rid of him since last year but nobody want him.Hardly an indication of a good keeper isn't it?Playing Lindegaard won't solve any problem.He's now falling behind Johnstone in the pecking order, simple as that.A number 3 GK is not gonna make a matchday squad.
Did you watch the game? Did you feel comfortable anytime when he had the ball? Did you see any of his clearances? He is a liability. He might be one of the worst goalkeepers in the league. Atrocious for him to be starting for United. LVG is taking the piss.
Why though? He has the reputation for a reason- it's not as if he'll suddenly transform into a world beater. Realistically, what we've seen from Romero so far during his career (a few solid performances, poor kicking/distribution, and a few absolute horror shows) is what we can expect to continue to see from him at United.
Muppets create reputations and reinforce them by discussing them. I'm more interested in how he performs on the pitch. I'm more than happy to criticize him for their 2nd goal and also criticize the likes of Shaw and Blind for allowing Gomis to boss them around as if they were pub players.
Against Spurs, he rushed when Kane made that lob pass in the first half, I think it was Erikssen that nearly lobbed him when he was at no mans land. Villa, Newcastle didn't have much to do and as noted he has the knack of rushing out and being caught. In the first game against Brugge he wasn't good IMO and if that was DDG he cold possibly saved their goal. Today he was really up to his Samp level - crap distribution, crap reflexes and again lack of positional sense.
We should probably kept Taibi as well?
Fair enough.
I don't see a method to this madness. Too many keepers in the squad and we still don't have a keeper good enough; the one who is, isn't allowed.
It's a joke.
I thought we signed this guy because he matched the so called philosophy. He looks mediocre on the ball and his kicking is dodgy.
Yep sell him. LVG is shit. Instead we can play that Spanish guy who doesn't want to play for us or maybe Sam, he's proven quality, or maybe one of that long line of top class keepers who want to come and play for us and are available right now.
Loss of the game wasn't down to him, maybe could have done better with second. The issue is of our own making. DDG wants to go, should have been sold and new player in ages ago. Any player we now sign gonna cost us 10m more cause they know we are desperate....
Yes I agree his distribution is clearly not on par with De Gea, but then again that's down to LvG for not playing the latter. I'm more concerned about the manager's decision making than blaming a keeper who was twiddling his thumbs in a foreign country just over a month ago.
So we can't use his career as an indication that he probably isn't very good?
Have you been consistently watching him in Italy ?
Maybe
No, but 13 league appearances in the last 2 seasons says to me that something clearly isn't right.
I have and he has been crap for large part when he was an actual first teamer. He hasn't started with his blunders yet, but so far in his career he has had a fair share of those.
And afterwards Viviano has been a lot better especially at positional sense and crosses. It's no wonder that he couldn't displace him.
He shouldn't be brought in at first place, so yeah it's all down to LvG for our GK situation right now. Valdes is a better GK than him. LvG handled that poorly as well. If you aren't going to play DDG due to the transfer stuff, then at least play your second best keeper, not send him into the reserves. Then we played Johnstone in pre-season where he actually looked good. Romero was never good enough.
So yeah, it's a bit Taibi situation with this guy. We fecked him after 4 games, can't see a reason why not do the same.
Yep cause it's not a science.Maybe
He was frozen out over a wage issue, not because of his form apparently.
Are you freaking kidding me? Did we not know DDG's stance since beginning of the year? We had Valdes who is better than Romero but that bridge has been burnt (not entirely LVG's fault) We got an absolute joke of a keeper thinking we have solved the goalkeeping issues. If we were not planning to sell DDG for less money then we should have made sure of that since the beginning for summer and made him ready for the start of the season.
Talking about DDG's frame of mind in the press is not going to make things ok. It's pathetic the way this has been handled. Plus a half-hearted DDG would be better than Romero right now.
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