At first he he failed. But he recovered far better than I thought he would.
20 years ago Italian football was on terrestrial tv more than English football so those who saw Buffon would be.
He has only been here for one season, and I don't think anybody is claiming he is the best of anything, apart from maybe his age bracket.
It's more important seeing how he develops than putting him as the best in the league. If he's progressing the right way, then he'll reach that point. For a lad so young, I'm not sure if that should be the focus.
If he has been our player of the season this explain a lot about our season
I'd agree with that.
If he said our best player out the new signings, then that wouldn't be such a crazy comment but i'm sure he doesn't actually think ddg was our best player this season.
Well the original quote sort of suggested it was just a personal view taking into account other factors such as the enormity of replacing Van Der Sar. He's clearly favouring De Gea over our real players of the year in Rooney and Carrick.
Maybe not quite as bad, but it's still a pretty bizarre claim to be honest. Even with the enormity of the role and the pressure of replacing VDS, which he has done quite well, he's clearly not been our best player this season.
Very much. A classic case of fans shooting their loads of 3-4 months of good form.
I don't think it is that bizarre either. If an outfield player had performed as well as De Gea had he would be considered as having a good season and given we don't have any standout candidates except unlike when Ronaldo and Vidic won it, there are worse claims out there. Certainly doesn't bear any comparison to what sonny said.
Yes, we do. Wayne Rooney. How would he not be a standout candidate?
He was a total liability before Xmas. We were dropping points because of him.
Rooney would get my vote but he was average for a couple of months in the year. When I said standout candidate I was talking as mentioned in the post in comparison to when Vidic and Ronaldo won player of the year. I also think it's a toss up between him and Carrick.
He's had bad spells here and there, but overall he's been our clear best player for me. He's arguably been even better than he was in 2010, and he strolled our player of the year that year, and was of of course Premier League player of the year as well.
I think we dropped more points under Van Der Sar last season in the league than we did with De Gea this year. Course he was a liability before Xmas but then Valencia didn't have the best of starts to the year and Nani hasn't had much of an impact since Feb. Yet those two will be brought up as having a good season.
I'd take Valencia, Carrick and Scholes over Rooney. None of them had slumps of bad form.
And my point exactly we don't have an out and out candidate this season.
I think it hasn't been too bad a first season for him really. I think it is always better to start slowly and get better than the other way round. It at least shows some sort of progression.
I actually dont think Nani has progressed to much at all this season.
What? That's quite ridiculous. Where was Valencia throughout the first half of the season? He certainly wasn't in good form then. No way is he the best player of our season. It's a classic example of fans taking one half of a season into account to say that him, or Dea for that matter, should be considered as our best player this season.
I'm like you here. I don't want to sound harsh on De Gea at all because I regard this season as a success for him, because he's progressed throughout the season, has steadily gotten better, and is going to be a top goalkeeper for years to come in my opinion. At the same time though, I still don't agree at all that he's been our best player this year.
Yep, I can agree with you on that.
I think we do. Scholes has been incredible since his return and no other player has done so consistently well in the games they have played. When he came back we were well behind City and showing no real signs of catching them.
I honestly think he's the highlight of the season... We all know how good Rooney, Valencia and scholesy are but DDG has played under immense pressure and has established himself as our no 1. For me he is the highlight of our season, hence he is my player of the season. Simple really.
I don't think he's done any better than expected really. If he'd done worse than he's done then it would've been a disappointing season.
You don't see any particular talent? 