I still think we sign Costa.
André Onana | signed for United | On a flight to NYC
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It seems so reactionary. Also, are we only interested in Onana after that CL Final? No strong rumor before that.
Probably yeah.
He wasn't free last summer.
Have you met the United scouting team?
Nothing surprises me with this club. Whether rumour or truth there is always some level of ineptitude involved with all our deals.
Obviously not, but no one probably thought he was available. Now inter need to raise cash fast, he is their best bet.
Smokescreen for Pickford on deadline day.
Nothing to do with the scouts never has been
Recruitment team then. They just go for the highest profile name available or go with whoever the manager wants. It’s the easiest job in the world
With United looking for a new GK this summer, every journalist/Twitter ITK is going to be linking a new GK every hour.
Impossible to actually know if United are in fact interested.
Impossible to actually know if United are in fact interested.
Probably like this poster said below. Just throw our name in.
Don't forget de ligt and de jong. This is going to be a pretty good team....
ETH was his manager and knew him very well. I'm sure he has been thinking about signing him for a while and just needed to wait until after the CL final to discuss, as it wouldn't have gone down well with Inter to unsettle their players before the final.
I just don't see how that's the case here. He ticks so many boxes in terms of style and quality, played for the manager previously, is unexpectedly available and we have a great relationship doing business with the selling club.
He would improve us a lot more than people realise. We would suffer far less transitions and Casemiro will have a hell of a lot less work to do.
Could just be a coincidence, most rumours only take off after the season ends. I find it hard to believe Ten Hag wasn’t keeping an eye on the goalkeeper he only worked with literally last year.
So the GK that Inter apparently lined up to replace Onana has agreed to join spurs.
Yeah not ideal that
So another reason to not like Spurs and Levy?
If he can get us up to where Brighton and Liverpool were that could make a big difference for us, yeah.
Yeah but this guy is one of best on market,Erik will sign some players he hasn't worked with before that's for certainIt's Ten Hag.
Pretty much everyone EtH has targetted since he joined is either a former player of his, or someone he personally saw in the Eredivisie. In the case of Onana, it's a former player.
That's a weird take. We should be discussing with target, way before season end.
Why is he unexpectedly available? Is Inter's financial crisis unexpectedly happened after season end?
Yeah, probably. Our D. Costa rumor was started months ago. But could be just smoke screen.
What would be the point of not being? What can be changed? If you want to be upset about it, go right ahead, seems utterly redundant to me.
Also, DDG wasn't on the verge of leaving last summer. Funny how people are what they want to see.
Yeah that's why we weren't interested then
I would imagine they tried to sell other players before their first team keeper, to raise money.
Well he signed the agreement with Inter in Jan 2022, way before we were looking for a GK. Not much we can do about it.
its keeping me up at night
Not at all. Onana was a gamble
As talented as he may be, he was quite rash at times.
Add to that he had a long term ban because of a failed drug test, rumours of falling off with Ten Hag who put him on the bench for his final months at Ajax, the actual falling off with the Cameroon NT during the World Cup, and even when Inter signed him they didn’t play him ahead of Handanovic until October or so.
Had we brought him in last summer, we would’ve lashed out at the management « bringing a player banned for doping that our new coach didn’t even play in his last club a few months » and so on
Hindsight punditry at its best on the Caf
His first touch looks crap?
I mean, people have been wanting to replace De Gea since before this summer. Onana has been fairly high profile for a while and a new GK has been a pretty routine discussion particularly on here, so although he may not have been people's first choice this time last year (or in January when he was able to sign a contract), it's hardly surprising people are questioning our strategy. De Gea is out of contract in 10 days and our 2nd choice keeper has one foot at Forest. It's a pressing situation.
And Onana is very press resistant.
Except he wasnt high profile after his ban. Only Lyon and Inter were interested. He played the African Cup of Nations after his suspension and he was only meh.
He was pretty inconsistent at the time and wasn’t a sure thing.
Is he really that good? Haven’t seen much bar the crazy sweeper videos.
CL final is all you need to see! He's a quality goalkeeper. Brilliant at playing out from the back with the ball at his feet, strong in the air, strong F sweeping, strong at shot stopping. An absolute no brainer signing.
The videos are more when he was younger, and he doesn't go that crazy from what I've seen in a normal side.
Yeah lost some form but it was a temporary thing understandably after being out of football for so long. Always takes time to get back to your best.
Unless we buy a top striker and a top midfield partner for him, bringing Onana will do feck all for Casemiro.
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