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Donnarumma is perfectly obtainable. If he’s willing to go to Manchester. Free transfer and an agent who’d need a big wedge of cash to make it happen.
It's never a 'free transfer' with Mino, he'll probably wring us dry on agent's fees and massive wages (probably higher then De Gea's). If we want to spunk high wages on another keeper, we'd have to let De Gea go first and we are terrible at selling players on high wages. It will take us a few summers to sell Dave, unless you have a source that says he wants out now.
In a few summers Dave will be gone on a free transfer.
But Donnarumma's not going to wait a few summers to join us? If his contract is running out this summer, it's got to be done this season. I'm just saying the chances of selling both our keepers this summer is slim, so it's unlikely we're going to get a new one.
Bolded part is 100% completely unprovable.
Is that Man Utd standard for no1 gk? Man Utd no1 gk (or any no1 gk in big club) must do world class saves. And so far in around 10 games he had one or two max. When oppo has a clear chance, it is a goal. This forum last two seasons is making fun of Pickford. Well here is the truth; Pickford is better gk than Henderson. Pickford will feck up something which Hendo will not do but Pickford can actually pull some world class saves. Henderson can't.
I agree. I think that was one of the issues Kepa had early on in his Chelsea career. He wasn't dropping clangers but he was regularly conceding goals where you thought the keeper could do better and neither was he pulling off great saves.
Not sure if you read my post at all but I gave him credit for the most part, goodness knows how you think I'm scapegoating him.
No the standard should be having midfielders who don't start a match laying on assists for the oppositions forwards. It's his first season at United and he's probably performing above expectations. Is he the long term answer, who knows, certainly none of the experts on this thread. Seems the Caf sheep just sits in expectation to moan and bitch about every single issue these days.
De Gea has been a tragic shot-stopper in the last 3 years. I've seen him concede much much worse goals than what Henderson did yesterday.
Id still back current DDG as the better shot stopper of the 2
You'd back a GK that has statistically been in the bottom 3 of shot-stopping in the league? That must mean Henderson is the worst in the PL, which is obviously not true and just pure agenda.
I like Henderson but from what Ive seen Im more confident in DDGs shot stopping this season (I think DDG actually improved this season). Henderson is better at more or less everything else though
The "big mistakes" don't really bug me as much. they are one offs. De Gea may have been able to save the shot yesterday, but if watching De Gea over the year has taught me one thing, it's the he probably would have been further to his left and not made the save either. It was a good shot inside the post. Had Henderson saved it, it would have been a great save. Either way, he should have been closed down or fouled well before he got the the 18...
How can you be so confident though, when the actual evidence we have that I can back up by using determined metrics, shows De Gea has been garbage specifically in that department?
This season? Fair enough
It's quite a broad stat though.
Of course it's a broad stat, we were never speaking about specifics, only about general shot-stopping ability.
I think 13.5 yards was the cut off point between the two.
Wait, with "1v1 situations", do you mean pretty much all short-range shots on target? Because there is no way 35% of all goals are scored in 1v1s with an attacker and a goalie, at least not against us.
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He's been solid for us and has made two howlers this season, one was trying to play out the back rather than a save attempt
Some of the comments on that tweet just make my head hurt.
Imagine having an agenda against our own player, because he is English and is from the youth setup, which automatically means that he is getting a chance only due to those reasons alone.There was once a time when we supported players who came from the academy. For years many and even on this forum, many posters were arguing managers started Rashford over Martial because of an academy agenda, never that he was the better player. Now many of the same want Martial gone.Some of the comments on that tweet just make my head hurt.
I don’t think academy factor plays a significant role in Caf assessment of Man Utd GK situation. What we (Caf’ contingent of Man Utd supporters) want is to have a GK that plays well and brings us valuable points.
And currently we are doing exactly what the "Caf contingent of Man Utd supporters" want by playing the best performing GK we have, so you should be happy.
