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Poor Dave. Past his peak.
It also doesn't count the amount of times he stayed rooted on his line and let dangerous crosses come in causing us to concede-1.8 seems generous. I might be misremembering, but I'm sure he's thrown in a lot more goals than that this season.
Past his prime. Happens to everyone, but he was excellent in his younger days and may well deteriorate faster. He also doesn't strike me as someone with great mental strength. I can see him really being bothered by his Spain form and really not getting over his mistakes. He may or may not find his great form again, but i doubt it will be here. Maybe he needs a change fo scenery to get back to his best, like VDS with us.I don't understand what's happened to him.
Same. If I'm not watching the game and I see we've conceded my first thought is "please don't be another De Gea mistake". Not good.Big pre-season coming up, I'm sure Henderson will spend it with us before potentially going on loan again and might well do enough to oust DDG
I've been a big defender of Dave but even I'm getting fed up of these errors now
He holds his fist up against his open palm to parry the ball. A smaller surface area and if he doesn't hit the centre of the ball with his fist, the ball can bounce off at ridiculous angles, including past you and into the net. Could be timing, could be poor technique, needs to cut it out really.Conceded a very similar goal to today last season vs City
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Exactly. 4 points in the Spurs & Everton come to mind in the last few games alone.Thats the biggest issue. We never seem to be able to nick 2 1 win when he makes a mistake.
Makes it so much worse
I guess he peaked very early. He was world class in his early 20s, which isn't all that common for a keeper. I'd like to think this is just poor form, but it's gone on for too long now. Looks like his career trajectory is going the way of Casillas.Think he lost his motivation, can't see how it's possible to deteriorate to this level when he's only 29 and still very young for a goalkeeper
I agree.I was thinking this before. They say a good keeper is worth 15 points a season but De Gea must be costing us almost as many.
Time to move on.
Many of us always expected him to drop away earlier than most keepers. His entire game is pretty much based on reflexes and pure shot-stopping ability, and those are amongst the first things to start deteriorating. Keepers who go on to play at the top level until their mid or late 30's normally have great all-round games and those other aspects improve through experience to compensate for the loss of reflexes.Think he lost his motivation, can't see how it's possible to deteriorate to this level when he's only 29 and still very young for a goalkeeper
Cristiano took his soul at the WC, never been the same after
But the thing is he has been poor for 2 seasons now so he already started to deteriorate at 27 which is too far a stretched even we all expected his performance to drop...Many of us always expected him to drop away earlier than most keepers. His entire game is pretty much based on reflexes and pure shot-stopping ability, and those are amongst the first things to start deteriorating. Keepers who go on to play at the top level until their mid or late 30's normally have great all-round games and those other aspects improve through experience to compensate for the loss of reflexes.
It's just happened a couple of seasons earlier than even we were expecting.
A few more? If there's a threshold, he's certainly already reached it.A few more outings like that and we'll be forced to bring up Henderson a lot quicker than I thought...
Can't have our keeper costing us valuable points at the business end of the season in an already tight race for the 4 like last season
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almost fell for it, but the last sentence made it clearFickle department right now right here... be interesting to see how people feel the next time DDG does a wonder save.
Grass is greener syndrome is strong here. The guy made one mistake for fecks sake.