André Onana | signed for United | On a flight to NYC

[izec]

Good game today

 

[Idxomer]

He's a better footballer than some of our outfield players.

 

[bosnian_red]

City's pressing was useless because Onana is a quality ball playing goalkeeper (and inter has very good forwards in terms of holding up the ball when Onana went long).

 

[Lash]

He's a bit nuts as well, love that in a keeper.

 

[Someone]

Would love a keeper like him on the team. It'd would transform the team.

 

[izec]

City's pressing was useless because Onana is a quality ball playing goalkeeper (and inter has very good forwards in terms of holding up the ball when Onana went long).

That is a hint for us, how much a keeper and a striker that can hold the ball would improve us. Inter are good, but they are not a great possession side either. With De Gea, you just cannot play out from the back and keep the ball for a bit.

 

[bosnian_red]

That is a hint for us, how much a keeper and a striker that can hold the ball would improve us. Inter are good, but they are not a great possession side either. With De Gea, you just cannot play out from the back and keep the ball for a bit.

Yup. And in the grand scheme of things, an elite shot stopper only makes a marginal difference compared to an average shot stopper over a season. A ball playing goalkeeper makes a huge difference, as does a goalkeeper who can deal with crosses. Courtois for example completely cuts out some routes for opposition because he just owns high balls. Onana single handedly killed City's press because of his ball playing. An elite shot stopper while being mediocre in the other aspects is just such a shit trade off.

 

[T_Model101]

Doper, but alongside a few of his team mates, had a great game

 

[2mufc0]

Good keeper and seems to have a great attitude/mentality.

 

[daba]

He was really impressive tonight, certainly moved up in my estimations. Exactly what De Gea isn’t in a keeper: confident, commanding and composed.

For €40-50m he’d be a good pick up.

 

[GledTheRed]

We need to make him a priority, he'd take us up a level.

 

[Stretfordender]

Make the call

 

[11101]

He has been my first choice keeper for a while now. Would be a huge upgrade on De Gea.

 

[userman]

Onana tonight was a great example of what a GK that’s comfortable on the ball and proactive in his playing style contributes to a team!

Him (or similar) must be a priority this summer.

 

[altodevil]

Signed on a free. It's never ever us with good deals.

 

[Adnan]

Dont really believe we're in for a keeper even if De Gea leaves. We have so many positions to sort out, and I genuinely believe we'll try to do it properly but to do so takes time. Romero is a good goalkeeper. We have some terrific younger prospects to be future goalkeepers like Henderson, so in the scenario that De Gea leaves this summer or next, I think we'll make do with what we have for a year or 2 while we focus on the outfielders. Then once that's sorted, if Romero/Henderson aren't good enough, buy a new one.

This post is from over 4 years ago and the same consensus still exists about us needing to upgrade other positions before we get to the GK. Not saying you're one of those posters bosnian_red but it just shows that we need to make a change now and bring in a keeper who will at the very least give us the ability to play out of a well coordinated press.

 

[Castia]

The guy is a complete pleb and a massive headache around the dressing room

Very good keeper but no thanks

 

[GledTheRed]

The guy is a complete pleb and a massive headache around the dressing room

Very good keeper but no thanks

You've played with him?

 

[RedStarUnited]

Signed on a free. It's never ever us with good deals.

More shocking when you consider he came from ETH former team. And we proceeded give Ajax nearly 150m for their other players.

 

[WeePat]

Quality keeper. Nothing he could do with the goal, but he is so composed on the ball and his distribution is something else. If he had kept a clean sheet, he would have broke the clean sheet record in the cpl.

It’s like he’s daring opponents to press him and then he just pings an inch perfect 40 yard grass cutter through the lines. City almost abandoned the press at one point because he kept breaking it.

 

[justboy68]

Quality to see a keeper so comfortable on the ball like that and also with some good saves and claims from crosses. Whether he is the one for us or not we need someone of that ilk.

 

[acnumber9]

Good keeper and seems to have a great attitude/mentality.

Yeah, we need more drug cheats about the place.

 

[Mainoldo]

Now this is what you call a keeper. Was like Martinez in goal.

 

[city-puma]

Quality to see a keeper so comfortable on the ball like that and also with some good saves and claims from crosses. Whether he is the one for us or not we need someone of that ilk.

Since the very early stage of the last season, there have constantly been stories that we were scouting GK extensively.
If a new GK doesn’t come this summer or the new GK is a flop, we should fire the whole player recruit team and the other related. In the former case, the blame actually must be put on the Glazers.

 

[glasgow 21]

Now this is what you call a keeper. Was like Martinez in goal.

Absolutely , fantastic audition , TenHag had him so either get him or get one as good Eric .

 

[Castia]

You've played with him?

I’ll keep my sex life to my self thank you very much

 

[Mainoldo]

Absolutely , fantastic audition , TenHag had him so either get him or get one as good Eric .

He was bloody free last summer too.

 

[Idxomer]

He was bloody free last summer too.

He agreed to join Inter well before the club even hired Ten Hag.

 

[Adnan]

Inter had got the deal done in January 2022. United at the time wasn't going to sign him.

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[crossy1686]

He was really impressive tonight, certainly moved up in my estimations. Exactly what De Gea isn’t in a keeper: confident, commanding and composed.

For €40-50m he’d be a good pick up.

We’d never be in for a player that was released from Ajax on a free and banned from football for doping.

 

[Castia]

Inter had got the deal done in January 2022. United at the time wasn't going to sign him.

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Wasn’t he serving his drug ban at the time?

 

[Lee565]

This club need a drastic change in mentality, we seem to always be grateful towards averageness, look how long chumps like lingard, martial and mctominay get afforded at this club, we shouldn't be going into another season with de gea as number 1 just because he pulls off some good saves now and then and that is good enough for our club, being risk averse will never get us competing

 

[Idxomer]

We’d never be in for a player that was released from Ajax on a free and banned from football for doping.

We have a player who was banned for doping on our books.

 

[crossy1686]

Wasn’t he serving his drug ban at the time?

Yes, hence the reason he was on a free after Ajax refused to renew his contract

 

[Ajaxsuarez]

I really don't see Ten Hag signing him after what he pulled in his last months at Ajax, and his attitude around that whole situation

 

[Adnan]

Wasn’t he serving his drug ban at the time?

His ban ended in November 2021. Details below.


"The CAS panel... found that no 'significant fault' could be attributed to Andre Onana, who had ingested medication destined for another person in error," the court said in a statement.

"On that basis, the panel considered that a nine-month ban was proportionate to the negligence committed and reduced the suspension by three months, but could not accept the goalkeeper's request for the removal of the suspension entirely."

"The CAS decision means the ban will now end on 4 November so he will miss the start of the season for Dutch champions Ajax but will be available for Cameroon when they host the Africa Cup of Nations in January."


https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/57427001

 

[crossy1686]

We have a player who was banned for doping on our books.

Who?

 

[Idxomer]

Who?

Fred.

 

[Adnan]

I don't believe we'll sigh him either after what happened with him at Ajax and then ten Hag dropping him from the team. There's plenty of good goalkeepers out there who fit the positional play principles who we can target.

 

[crossy1686]

His ban ended in November 2021. Details below.


"The CAS panel... found that no 'significant fault' could be attributed to Andre Onana, who had ingested medication destined for another person in error," the court said in a statement.

"On that basis, the panel considered that a nine-month ban was proportionate to the negligence committed and reduced the suspension by three months, but could not accept the goalkeeper's request for the removal of the suspension entirely."

"The CAS decision means the ban will now end on 4 November so he will miss the start of the season for Dutch champions Ajax but will be available for Cameroon when they host the Africa Cup of Nations in January."


https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/57427001

This doesn’t tell the whole story.

He was banned for doping on the grounds he was taking a masking agent.

A masking agent covers up the banned substance so if you do a drugs test, the performance enhancing substance won’t show but the masking agent will instead. However masking agents are still banned for obvious reasons but the bans are reduced as no one can legitimately say for sure that the player was doping.

He claimed he took his girlfriends cold medicine without realising, however she’d have to be on some pretty fecked up stuff to have that particular masking agent present in her cold medicine.

Safe to say, he was definitely doping but got cleared on a technicality.