Chill out kiddo, there have been plenty of posters claiming De Gea is average or has finally been found out etc.
I wasn't talking about you specifically and questioning whether a player with 10 or so years of their career left, who has consistently been one of the best in his position for years is on a 'decline' after a few months, which had some games where he made a mistake in is typical of the online special cases who claim to be fans of the club. He's made something like 10 errors leading to goals in his career and around half that was in a short space back in April ish. That's called bad form and coupled with the entire team really struggling, does common sense not lead you to give the guy a break?
His bad patch really is being exaggerated. If you want to claim that our online fan base are critical thinkers, put thought, logic and reason in to what they post, as well as research their opinions then be my guest....
Also, I said nothing about the length of contract or directly responded to anything from this weekend. You seem to have jumped on my reply which was in response to the general critisicm that have been put his way across this and other forums.
Yeah, you're right. It's aimed more at the holier-
Chill out kiddo, there have been plenty of posters claiming De Gea is average or has finally been found out etc.
I wasn't talking about you specifically and questioning whether a player with 10 or so years of their career left, who has consistently been one of the best in his position for years is on a 'decline' after a few months, which had some games where he made a mistake in is typical of the online special cases who claim to be fans of the club. He's made something like 10 errors leading to goals in his career and around half that was in a short space back in April ish. That's called bad form and coupled with the entire team really struggling, does common sense not lead you to give the guy a break?
His bad patch really is being exaggerated. If you want to claim that our online fan base are critical thinkers, put thought, logic and reason in to what they post, as well as research their opinions then be my guest....
Also, I said nothing about the length of contract or directly responded to anything from this weekend. You seem to have jumped on my reply which was in response to the general critisicm that have been put his way across this and other forums.
Apologies for firing off in your direction. You're right, it was a general complaint aimed at the posters who insist on splitting opinion into 2 binary sections of 'He's a legend, call yourself a fan?!' and 'He's no better than Romero, this is fecking stupid' when, in reality, it's much more complex than that and does warrant debate.
As ever, some utterly stupid shit has been posted about this contract but I can see both sides.
Personally I thought his form was patchy all season, with him being an actual liability for a while. If that was a blip then great, one of the best keepers in the world has committed the rest of his career to us. There's risk attached though. And I think it would be fairly naive to ignore that.
Cheers for the moderate, sensible reply anyway.