What he has is terrific ball control. Give him a hospital pass and he will bring it under control. That unfortunately doesn’t not translate to being able to pass effectively.
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Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) discuss United's fantastic win away against Athletic Club in the semi-final of the Europa League.
They also pick out the positives of United's 4-3 loss away at Brentford, and Nik reviews a day out at Old Trafford watching Manchester United Women qualify for the Champions League.
He's also excellent at dwelling on the ball and attempting to look composed before leathering it upfield.
Aye, he's "good with the ball at his feet"... as in he's good when the ball is literally at his feet. Touch, close control, sorting his feet out etc... incredibly comfortable.
Getting it away from his own feet is an entirely differnent story.
I appreciate that you're still ultimately saying he's not good enough and it's a high priority that we get rid but I do think you're being a bit generous with him.
You can't have a keeper who is prone to having 4 or 5 week spells where he's making at least one horrendous error every game. All keepers make mistakes but the best keepers move on from them immediately. Onana will make one error and then his head goes and he's an utter liability for the next month or two.
Even if he was excellent outside of those bad spells, which he isn't, I'd still say we needed a new keeper. You need stability and trust with your keeper and I just dont think our defenders trust him.
I'm not sure this is true when it comes to shot-stopping. Onana has fecked up a series of what I'd consider to be fairly routine saves across the second half of the season, and it's cost us points and very nearly cost us in the Europa League too.
Where I do think people exaggerate is his distribution. People call it "poor" but I'd say it's nowhere even close to that. De Gea's distribution was poor. Onana's has honestly been fine. It's not on a part with Ederson's but he's not a complete train-wreck any time the ball gets given to him like De Gea.
Yea it frustrates me everytime to see him kicking the ball to Rasmus who can't handle them well. But most of the cases the long balls don't get to the forwards anyway. If we just replace those two it will improve us massively.
David DeGea would guarantee the team an extra +20 points per season when playing well, Onana guarantees the team -20 points a season.
When you look back at his gaffes over the last two seasons it’s grim. We can’t rely on him and I don’t think he is going to get any better, his concentration levels are really poor, he is slow getting down and he misjudges a lot of balls into the box. Ten Hag let a world class keeper go for free and replaced him for 50 million with Ronald MacDonald.
I will never forgive Ten Hag for some of the dross he brought into the club but Onana was the worst of it by a country mile… let’s hope he doesn’t cost us further this season but going by his numbers the worst is probably yet to come
When you look back at his gaffes over the last two seasons it’s grim. We can’t rely on him and I don’t think he is going to get any better, his concentration levels are really poor, he is slow getting down and he misjudges a lot of balls into the box. Ten Hag let a world class keeper go for free and replaced him for 50 million with Ronald MacDonald.
I will never forgive Ten Hag for some of the dross he brought into the club but Onana was the worst of it by a country mile… let’s hope he doesn’t cost us further this season but going by his numbers the worst is probably yet to come
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Guy is a false goalkeeper. He doesn't have basic gk skills.
Does he play with lead in his boots ?
The worst thing about it is ten Hag could've signed him for free before he signed for Inter. Awful signing.
Make no mistake about it; we need 2 new keepers in the summer. This guy is not it; you just cannot rely on him when it matters. You just know he will make a stupid mistake and cost us. We can't allow him to be our GK going forward. He should go.
Arguably should save their goal. Seemed to get there but didn't really move his feet fast enough. Maybe being harsh
Harsh I think. I criticise him plenty but it was a very good goal
It looked very strange diving with two hands like that. I’m no goalkeeping expert but isn’t that a bit of a no no for decent keepers?
He reminds me on those selfthought martial arts "masters".
Are we 100% sure that he was gk in youth teams?
Are we 100% sure that he was gk in youth teams?
How often do we concede with the first shot on goal?
I feel like with an extra step he can safe that one.
He was better all around last couple of games, but I am so nervous with him in goal
I feel like with an extra step he can safe that one.
He was better all around last couple of games, but I am so nervous with him in goal
It’s not a mistake, but the best shot stoppers save it. He has his fibgers on it.
Allisson saves it, Donnarumms, Courtois, Pope, DDG, and probably many more.
Again, blaming him is harsh, but it’s not like no goalie on earth doesn’t save it.
He should definitely save it. He gets blame for some that aren't his fault but tonight he's lucky their goal is long forgotten.
He’s such a poor shot stopper, amongst many other things. We need to prioritise a new keeper this summer.
He has he own way of goalkeeping, which if it were effective I wouldn't mind but technically he is just unorthodox and poor for a keeper.
A better keeper moves quickly and makes a one handed save, nice shot but it's not to the corner and a fairly good height.
He's just awful.
Our best hope in the final is he doesn't have much to do. Because if we need to rely on him to make a save he won't.
Our best hope in the final is he doesn't have much to do. Because if we need to rely on him to make a save he won't.
It depends. If you can definitely get two hands to it then that’s the best option. If you’re stretching, go with one. He should have gone with one hand. The main problem was his footwork though. Should have taken another step before diving.
Yeah, agreed. And I’ve tended to defend him when he gets unfairly blamed for goals that weren’t his fault. Tonight that was a poor effort. Just horrible technique.
There's no reason for a GK to be as big as he is. It makes him slow on those types of saves. He needs to lean out, probably lose 15lbs at least and he'll probably be a bit more agile. I don't really have faith in him going into a final but he has won a final before. He was solid vs City last year other than the goal they scored
His poor technique keeps showing up in big and small ways. I wonder if he was even scouted. Anyone with goalkeeping knowledge recognizes his flaws immediately.
You almost never see keepers dive like that with two hands, even if they can get them to it. Remember when keepers used to dive and catch the ball
Now we don’t even see them trying to catch crosses.I'm not sure he could save it but he just does weird sht like trying to save itwith both hands. It's just technically flaed and he does sht like that repeatedly
Which it often is and why he gets beat so often by shots that don’t look that close to the corner but won’t go down as an error as such. To go with all the other problems he has, he’s far too heavy for a keeper.
Gk knowledge? I have zero knowledge and i saw that after seeing only one of his youtube compilations. Even there you can see that his gk technique is poor and that he rarely catches a shot.
Same as with Dorgu's technique or Harry's pace. Those things you see at first sight
Yeah, so imagine what a goalkeeping scout would see. It’s absolutely baffling. I’d love to know exactly how these decisions were made.
Eth said; "John, i want him. feck scouts".
At least ETH can’t hurt us anymore.
When you constantly question your GK you already have your answer
Being harsh I reckon, that was heading for the top corner from 20 yards out and a player blocking his view to a certain extent, I don't think many would have stopped that
He could have done better on their goal, he just doesn’t make those type of saves though.
Badly needs to be sold
Maybe a better keeper saves it, maybe they don't. Andre's problem now is that he's lost the benefit of the doubt with fans.
I really, really hope he doesn't do a "Karius" in the final.
I really, really hope he doesn't do a "Karius" in the final.
Most really elite keepers save that. It wasn’t in the postage stamp and it was a long way out. It looked closer to the corner than it was because he got his hands to it. It was also a technically poor effort at a save.
He doesn't seem to make any type of saves.
I'd take Steven Seagal in net before Onana.
I've thought this but didn't want to say it because far be it for me to criticise a pro athlete's body shape but I can't think of another keeper who is a bit chunky, for lack of a better word. You can get away with that in other positions but being a bit lithe is almost a prerequisite for a top keeper.