De Gea Signs New Contract to 2023 (+1)

[Big Ben Foster]

4 years Player of the year.

You don't pay players for past performance, you pay them for expected future performance.

 

[Mcking]

No one could’ve seen such a drop in form coming. You can’t compare Smalling and Jones contracts with De Gea’s. Having said that, dropping him during the season after a couple errors might’ve been the best situation. Initially in his United career, we saw the best of him once he was dropped for a period of time for Lindegaard.

I’m still in the hopeful camp. His poor moments receive 100x footage, even from our own fans, as compared to his good ones. It is now becoming a make or break time for him. Very few players face such a reckoning at this stage of their careers. An outfielders rapid decline can be less notable. Rooney had his defenders for years. Whether he has the mental toughness to ride it out or fold will be seen in the remaining part of this year.

Many saw it coming, but most didn't have the balls to admit it.

Imagine a goalkeeper performing so badly and the excuse was that he couldn't perform because he hadn't signed a new contract.

The reward for underperforming? Make him the highest paid in the world. A textbook example of mediocrity being rewarded.

 

[romufc]

You don't pay players for past performance, you pay them for expected future performance.

If only the board and the people giving contracts could have access to the genie you have.

 

[Big Ben Foster]

If only the board and the people giving contracts could have access to the genie you have.

His decline had been evident for a while. You don't need access to a genie to have been concerned at the time with the contract terms we gave him.

 

[Tom Cato]

You don't pay players for past performance, you pay them for expected future performance.

you pay players for their expected future performance, based on their past performance.

 

[Big Ben Foster]

you pay players for their expected future performance, based on their past performance.

Yes, but when their performances start to wane, you take that into consideration when determining their future trajectory.

Otherwise you end up with an over the hill Wayne Rooney on a long-term £300k/wk contract.

 

[romufc]

His decline had been evident for a while. You don't need access to a genie to have been concerned at the time with the contract terms we gave him.

Players have a dip in form, DDG had a dip in form 1st time in 6 years, so no it was not evident. Rashford had a dip in form at the end of last season, he got a big contract and he has been brilliant this season.

It isn't always black and white.

 

[Ekeke]

So he has an option for an extra year, do we have an option for 1 less year?

 

[-Supreme-]

At fecking last!!

Great news as far as I'm concerned

I just love how every De Gea thread is being bumped now, because ya know you can't vent in the one Player Performance thread?

Do you share the same opinion now after he signed this contract in the same season?

 

[Samid]

I think we should have sold him but I hope this stops his dodgy form otherwise we're lumbered for a long time.

Could come back to bite us this. Hopefully he can improve this season and get back to his best.

Most likely will come back to bite us. Should have been sold this summer, and we should have gone for a GK better suited to playing out from the back.

Not as excited as I would have been a year ago. Hopefully doesn't come back and bite us.

Only four posters on the first page saw the warning signs. We never learn.

 

[Mainoldo]

If he single handedly cost us top 4, he has also got us top 4 single handedly in the past.

In the words of Janet Jackson. What have you done for me lately!!

 

[ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg]

Did we need to bump another DDG thread. That’s three DDG threads and the Henderson one.

 

[LawCharltonBest]

His agility in 2014-17 was inhuman. And set him apart.

Maybe getting close to 30, that’s gone a bit and his performance is suffering

 

[Mainoldo]

The only way this would be true would be if every game we lost or dropped points was because of him and without those errors, the 3 points would be guaranteed. I don’t recall that being the case.

He needs to criticised. Every bit is earned. But there’s a difference between criticising and scapegoating. We were awful yesterday and looked like losing without the blunders as well. De Gea was our biggest culprit but he wasn’t the only one.

If DDG had caught the long ranger against Chelsea last season we would have won that game and most certainly had got top four.

Saying he’s not the only one is like covering up David Luiz’s mistakes. He is the keepers equivalent at the minute and we need to replace him.

 

[TMDaines]

Players have a dip in form, DDG had a dip in form 1st time in 6 years, so no it was not evident. Rashford had a dip in form at the end of last season, he got a big contract and he has been brilliant this season.

It isn't always black and white.

It better fecking had be when you are playing them over £300k. Are De Gea, Ozil and Sanchez the past paid players in the Prem?

 

[mu4c_20le]

Strange this thread never got bumped during the good performances. Completely forgot it existed.

 

[Feed Me]

Strange this thread never got bumped during the good performances. Completely forgot it existed.

De Gea has been terrible for two years, how anyone could dispute this is beyond me.

 

[devilish]

This has aged well

Why?

Lukaku is third top scorer in the Serie A behind Ronaldo and Immobile. I have to agree about Sanchez

 

[sugar_kane]

This thread bumping needs to stop, it's pretty pathetic and seems to have become increasingly common.

Wasn't it banned at one point?

 

[crossy1686]

Only four posters on the first page saw the warning signs. We never learn.

I remember how we got shot down for this opinion at the time. Goalkeepers never recover from bad form, the writing was on the wall back then.