We withdrew the original offer, which would still have made him the best paid goalkeeper in the country. It was an absurd decision to offer that to a keeper who was way passed his best, and was holding us back.
You didn't need a sweeper back then as the back pass rule didn't exist, a keeper doesn't need to be good with their feet if they can pick up and throw the ball.
Ah, yes, the "worst talent spotter in the world" for replacing De Gea with Onana. The De Gea pining is completely bat-shit crazy.
He definitely isn’t. He has a knack of making routine saves look amazing with his athleticism, but it’s really not hard to beat him, his reactions are slow, he dives in slow mo and gives up on shots before they’ve even passed him.
It's also a weird comparison to use Liverpool given that Grobbelaar was a goalkeeper who regularly came out of his goal far more than 99% of goalkeepers of the time.
De Gea was letting howlers in on a near weekly basis by the end of his time here. People are forgetting the world class keeper we once had was long gone by the end of last season.
De Gea was a master of making ridiculous saves but then letting in shots you'd expect a supposedly world class goalkeeper to routinely stop, that weren't quite 'GK errors'. Particularly over the last 3/4 years he was at the club. He gets better and better in peoples heads the longer it goes since he's played a game of football.
Yeaj that’s kind of true- his bad positioning does that. But he hs made some real good saves tbf but way too many mistakes.
The post mentioned De Gea, but was about Onana, not him. The point is, we moved away from prioritising saving the ball with passing the ball.
De Gea had the most clean sheets last seasons.
Onana’s kicking has been absolute crap whenever he has to resort to anything further than his first line of defence.
Drastically reduced wages yes, but that would still make him the highest paid goalkeeper in the country. It's just that he was on such an absurd salary to begin with that even the drastic reduction was such a large amount. That offer was rescinded, and then the club offered a lower salary which DDG rejected. The reports were generally all very clear on this, here are a couple of reports from a quick search: one, two. So to be absolutely clear about this, our only option for keeping DDG was on a long term contract with him as the best paid goalkeeper in the country, as we offered him a more reasonable deal and he rejected it. It was that, or lose him and bring in a new keeper.
Why are we worse? I always thought last summer we didnt have piles of cash, we had a lot of holes to fill, it was clear Ten Hag wanted a keeper who would come of his line which Henderson does. So made sense to give Henderson a shot.
Never buy an old player from Real, their data surely told them he was on his last top season.
Agree about Casemiro. It was a desperation buy.
Not really "old" Varane was 28 when he joined tbf. That’s hardly old especially for a defender.
You think we need to see LESS of him in action in order to draw a conclusion on him? Interesting.
What does this mean? When he's walking onto the pitch?
Let's not buy any player from Real for the next few years.
Spot on. The level of mental gymnastics I’m seeing in this thread is hilarious. The way some in this fanbase keep on finding excuses for bad performances is part of the reason we’re so bad. We encourage mediocrity.
My example also rings true when the rule changed. Liverpool did not play with a target man and still dominated matches.
He's the 4th* most expensive GK ever, and even if I wouldn't go as far as to say he was a bargain, it was a reasonable fee for 43 million and it's probably what his real worth it. We certainly didn't overpay like we did with Antony. Same thing goes for Mount. No midfielder at the age of 24 with his ability and achievements in football will go for less than 55 million.
Many of us were saying it before onana was even bought. People thought it was ddg holding us back fromm playing good footy. He wasn't helping but it was the outielfders that need upgrading first.
His foot work is non existent
His footwork is particularly terrible!
He has made more saves than every other goalkeeper in the league this seaon other than Luton's keeper who has made one more.
I'm not denying he faces tons and tons of shots. We're a mess.
I disagree with this, playing out from the back should utilise the speed and creativity of players like Rashford, Bruno, Hojlund, Amad etc. The whole idea is to invite the opposition onto you and bring them forward so you can then break into the space they leave behind. Your problem isn't Onana in this it's sloppy passes from the defence and the worry that they won't move it fast enough to utilise that space and then get the ball nicked in a dangerous position. This is where you have missed Martinez so much as he is great at retaining the ball and passing through the lines, Maguire is pretty good at that as well, but is more prone to have the ball taken from him.
What argument is your example backing up though? That because Liverpool's tactics worked in the 80s they'll work today? Football moves on, otherwise that approach would still be dominating.
