Excited about this signing! Gonna be great to see a keeper who’s comfortable with the ball at his feet and not hoof it every time without a clear aim.
André Onana | signed for United | On a flight to NYC
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We have had 9 African players play for United (Fortune, Djemba Djemba, Manucho, Diouf, Zaha, Bailly, Ighalo, Amad, Hanibal). It's not a small number but you can't say any of them had a significant career at United. Hopefully Amad and Onana will.
For the record: Ajax did not qualify for european football in 2017/2018 because of what happened to Nouri so he did it in a season less.
Yeah over hear in Nigeria. During Fergie prime years he was accused by haters of not fancying African footballers. We're yet to have one who truly made it big time. Liverpool: Salah, Mane. City: Yaya Troure, Mahrez. Chelsea: Drogba, Essein. Arsenal: Song, Adebayour.
Amad hasn’t been given a chance to be fair, zaha rarely got a chance aswell because of the manager we had. Diouf was meant to be an up and coming player weren’t he.
Awesome news mate! Better than any transfer news. Wishing you good health buddy.
Finally we have some proper standards back
Would be nice to get him in before the preseason.
Although I know we’ll probably have some scary bat shit crazy moments, it’s probably the most I’ve been excited about signing a goalkeeper. I can see him massively transforming our build up and chance creation situations.
I seem to recall he mentioned something about losing players to the ACN as his reason.
What are the criteria to be african?
He is pretty much perfect for the way we want to play. Of course you never know how any given player is going to perform, especially in a different league for a top team, but this is a preferred target, not a punt.
Looks like De Gea’s United career started and finished with a mare against City at Wembley.
Yeah other top clubs have had at least 1-2 African players that were brilliant for them. Hopefully we will, too. We also don't sign German or Italian players much either which is interesting.
True for Zaha but it is what it is. He's solid player but the fact he's 30 and still at Palace shows he never really reached that next level like we believed he would.
I have only watched him play a couple times but watching a few videos on YouTube, yes I know, he looks as though he struggles to catch the ball. A lot of great saves but deflections back in the box.
Its most likely the reason.
What are we going to do when he goes off to play in the Gold Cup?
Does this signing mean Maguire's lack of pace becomes less of a liability ?
2 signings in 1..
2 signings in 1..
Erik ten Haggle
Zion Suzuki of cour... oh shiet.
Being an African as in international for one of African NTs. Not counting European players with African roots etc.
I don't think Maguire needs pace to catch a seat on the bench. Its not like anyone is taking that spot from him.
No. I would be extremely cautious with someone like Maguire with a goalkeeper that is willing to pass the ball in high risk-high reward areas. Unless Maguire learns how to receive the ball while moving or develop his agility, Onana is more likely to expose than help him.
I feel like Quinton had a good career with us to be fair.
It would somewhat alleviate it because the space in behind is less vast. Maguire has more issues to his game than just being ponderous sadly.
So you are talking about African internationals. Otherwise Evra is born and bred in Senegal.
Congratulations, that is great news!
Congrats mate. That’s good to hear. Happy for you and your family
Love it
!Fantastic news! Best wishes going forward as well
Yeah, beat me to this one. A good player who didn't get as many games as he might because it was United's peak years. He would have been first choice at most clubs, and for us in some eras. Til injuries mounted anyway, not surprisinglly given his aggressive style of play.
Diouf wasn't really that good even in the Norwegian league. Weird signing.
Something like that.
Truthfully, he will help our build up play a lot which will boost chance creation. It is not going to turn us into title contenders: for that we need a top striker and better performances from Antony/Sancho. Assuming Rashford will keep his form and Mount will do great.
Well technically every single person on the planet is African if you want to be pedantic about it.
It's not being pedantic he was born in Dakar
Asking a question is being pedantic? Go kick rocks if you want to act like a prat.
Big old growth spurt there
Obviously you know what the conversation was about. There's Saka and there's Osimhen.
Just watched a video of some highlights on YT. I can't lie, Dave in goal gives me panic attacks all the time, but the shit this guy is doing is going to make me even worse
Maguire's problem is so much more than lack of pace.
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