I can tell this thread and De Gea's thread are going to be a bloodbath this season.
If/when De Gea gets displaced it will be on merit. Not on a whim. Hopefully everyone will get behind him and back him.
Henderson is getting his chance to adapt to the United culture (albeit without fans) by playing in cup games and so far he’s had a very good first game and yes I happen to think he has some way to develop into a world class GK but that is no criticism.
Hopefully he can take De Gea’s spot when he’s ready as it would save us a huge chunk of wages and a transfer fee on the next big thing GK wise.
We don't even know if Henderson can handle the pressure yet.
He made plenty of mistakes at Sheffield also - probably as many as DDG did for us last year. If he ends up throwing De Gea in the bin and Henderson flops even worse, then we're stuck with Romero or Lee Grant.
Ole is playing this the right way. You don't alienate somebody straight away for no reason.
Exactly this. We cannot afford to risk losing one of our world class performers either historically or otherwise because it feels good to have an academy lad in goal.
I’d love to see it but more than anything I’d love to see United win the PL again and as far as I’m concerned whoever is best to secure that should be in goal based on merit.
This season we’ll find out if Henderson can hack it and fingers crossed he gives a good showing of himself.