Yeh Onana agreed to join Inter long before we had sorted ten Hag.
On the bolded, though, that's the sort of thing you'd hope the team of sporting directors would make to fit the more progressive and assertive style of football we should be playing, regardless of whether or not we have a manager. De Gea was a great servant for us but he had absolutely no place starting for a team with title winning ambition at this point in his career.
We’ve jumped from Moyes to LVG to Mourinho to Ole to Ragnick to ETH,
we don’t have a style.
Liverpool didn’t have one before Klopp either and nor do Chelsea, Arsenal didn’t before Arteta.
City did but that’s cause the cheating fecks clearly paid Pep a retainer early and got his Barca directors at work a few years before he joined. Still didn’t stop them having a Joe Hart and dogshit purchase in Bravo problem though leaving them, like us, looking for a new keeper a year after Pep arrived.
Let’s also not forget Ole was manager when Inter started agreeing with Onana, and was a big DDG fan.
It’s nonsensical to think we’d have got Onana in December 2021, or that he would have agreed to come to a managerless club with no guarantee if he or De Gea would be no. 1.
Let’s also remember Alison signed for Roma in 2016 for 8m, no forward planning from a tonne of clubs there too I guess?