This club.. This club never learns..
André Onana | signed for United | On a flight to NYC
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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I think he will have the biggest impact on the team. No more LVG yawn nights.
Have to give credit where credit is due. Murtough & team has done a pretty good job since coming in. Lessons learnt?
The ‘not having Woodward’ effect
They need time to wheel out the piano.
goddamn flight tracker!He should already be at training. Everything takes so damn long with this club.
Biggest single change we could make. So many are going to be gobsmacked at the difference in play.
Could be in Manchester or elsewhere…
Classic United transfer season.
Classic United transfer season.
Would love to see an Onana chant based on this, but I’m no lyricist:
Gone from Monday-Tuesday to Wednesday-Thursday. Next he’ll be arriving midnight Saturday
Heaton is definitely a very good backup.
On a good note, it's great that man utd is finally getting a new keeper after 12 long years!
Would be talked about no end had he not retired.
Casemiro and Martinez were pretty transformational as well TBF. But yeah Onana will be up there
Very excited for this. ETH is the most transformational signing. Everyone he is signing will be capable of playing the football he wants and whilst DeGea for me has been our only truly world class performer since SAF retired he’s regressed and was never capable of ETH ball. There may need to be a trade off in terms of DeGeas shot stopping abilities but overall the impact should be huge with the manager we have.
When we look back at this signing in a few years time, it will be an absolute outrage over the fact that he wasn’t announced today.
I just fear he will be a Barthez.
Lots of hype about playing the ball out etc and then calamitous moments which are costly.
I hope he doesn’t get found out in the PL.
All the best Onana!
Lots of hype about playing the ball out etc and then calamitous moments which are costly.
I hope he doesn’t get found out in the PL.
All the best Onana!
You would think that though given he’s taking your job.
Onana's playing ability seems to be similar to De Gea but Onana has better dribbling and passing.
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Phew, I thought we'd agreed the fee against him! Thanks Howard!
Kind of funny that the club is always last to announce deals nowadays.
Simon Stone reporting we have agreed to the fee on BBC
Manchester United have agreed a fee of 51m euros (£43.7m) for Inter Milan goalkeeper Andre Onana, with an additional 4m euros (£3.4m) in add-ons.
Manchester United have agreed a fee of 51m euros (£43.7m) for Inter Milan goalkeeper Andre Onana, with an additional 4m euros (£3.4m) in add-ons.
That is a surprisingly decent price. Hopefully we'll manage to do similar with Højlund.
Fair attempt at a limerick.
But it's meant to be an AABBA rhyming scheme, with the 3rd and 4th lines the shortest.
Good price considering the Henderson sale - £25m or so to replace de Gea, which given he has been our goalkeeper for over a decade, could have been a potentially mammoth task. Let's hope he's good enough and for more of a van der Sar - de Gea situation rather than a Schmeichel replacement palaver.
This is going to be such a game changer for us. It’s ridiculous how many aspects of our game will change just because of this guy coming in.. absolutely buzzing.
Isn’t this the case with most clubs nowadays, that it usually breaks via a journalist before the club itself? I don’t actually follow any other clubs transfers to have a point of reference but at least for us it’s been this way for a while
Why does the club never officially announce the fact we’ve agreed a fee for players anymore? The only word that officially comes out of the club is after they are signed.
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Decent fee, and it looks like we didn’t get fleeced for a change. Thought that might be the case after DDG left.
Flight tracking time! How long does it take to fly from Milano to Manchester?
That is possibly the worst Photoshop I've ever seen
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BBC's was much betterThat is possibly the worst Photoshop I've ever seen
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Be ready to have a completely different experience watching your team. With Onana instead of De Gea you'll be able to push up high safe in the knowledge that Onana is ready to come out pretty far to sweep up, and he's good at it, you'll be able to provoke teams into pressing high and he'll easily pick out a pinpoint pass to beat it. Someone called it a gamechanger. For a team that has had a keeper with De Gea's profile for so long, it will certainly feel like a gamechanger. Brilliant signing.
He's going to be bananas for us and at times infuriating and I can't wait.
Isn’t he the worst sweeper in the world according to the stats?
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