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Don't know about top 4, but this guy is 2 levels bellow the worst version of De Gea.
Third goal. Took himself out of the game basically with his position. Of course he couldn't have made the save once he decided to leave that massive gap. He just hoped that Varane would deal with it all on his own.
Exactly, Fred was also shit.
His technique is really poor, several minor fumbles with even straight forward shots. When did he deliver a 'wow' save.
True. With DeGea, when he tried to play the ball with his feet it was heart in mouth time, but he was guaranteed to save any decent effort at goal -- plus save a bunch of shots that no human should be expected to save. With Onana, even a routine shot he can't hold onto, he gets down too slowly, his positioning is bad, and his much-vaunted passing ability is about 50% accuracy.
I still found it ridiculous we released De Gea. Not saying he didn't eventually need replacing but he wasn't our biggest problem and could have saved £50/60 million for another player in a more needed position
Our biggest problem in the league has been lack of goals. De Gea or not we'd still be below 4th
Back in 2018? Sure
He had to go, there's no two ways about it.
Weird we got rid off DDG if he saved us all the time last season eh?
If we’d kept him we’d now have a better goalkeeper and 50 million more in the bank for his replacement.
If he was kept, you wouldn't have a better keeper, just more of the same from the last 5 years on higher wages.
No, we’d have a better keeper. DDG from last season is better than Onana of this season, surely noone disagrees with that anymore?
Could maybe swap them for a while and see how it goes?
Like saying Hojlund was actually brought in for his defensive capabilities and goals are a bonus.
Not really. He let in a hell of a lot of soft goals over his last five years here.
You can. DDG needed to go, 5 years of underperformance and the highest paid keeper in the world. Absolutely ridiculous, because even with a drop in wages he would still have been one of the highest paid keepers in the world. Without the performance levels to back that up.
As it was last year also, BUT some on here and obviously the club thought that a new GK was a priority and bought a worse GK for 50m. There are 2 parts of the problem IMO. I think even if we got it spot on and bought a top GK, we'd still have a problem scoring goals, we didn't buy a good enough GK, and we obviously work on a budget. So all these decision makers ETH included served a total feck up and should be sacked on the spot.
I don't think it was the case. Many including me, realized that we had bigger problems than the GK, as it turned out the truth. We had much more pressing issues, than DDG last year, like ST, CDM, CM, and RM. What did we solve out of that list? Mainoo obviously is an absolute plus, but christ everything else is a total disaster.
The 3rd goal? Nah, not on him that.
Onana has never had a MOTM performance.
Exactly , you are well entitled to call him shit without creating an agenda. He wasn’t at fault for any of the goals yesterday . I personally think he’ll come good .
Varane was shocking on the 3rd goal. He actually showed the left footer onto his left foot. He's done, and I'd rather Maguire or Evans start ahead of him.
He didn't get close enough either.
