I actually couldn't believe so many had voted for de Gea before the Chelsea game. It's better late than never though.
Can't see his name without thinking about that Rihanna song.
This wasn't the final. So probably!
You are reading too much into Ole's words. He kept saying Sanchez will prove all you lot wrong. He will play games. He will come into the squad etc etc. - and then he was loaned to Inter.
As I said, the No.1 position is not one you compete for. Romero should remain as No.2 if he wants to, but as for the starting goalkeeper, we have to make a decision between Henderson or De Gea, and commit to it.
It's a romantic idea should we get a sizable offer for Dave, and then let him and Romero fight it out next year. If De Gea continues being shaky, then there may not be that much between them and perhaps its a good idea to let him develop with us, but the question for those romantic folk is this: are they happy with sitting at 5-6th again? Deano has had a great first PL season despite the blunders, and staying there for another year would be the most ideal. If he has the right mentality to play for us, then this shouldn't be a problem and he shouldn't see it as a disappointment. If he has less than two years on his contract, we should reward him with an extension with a promise that he'll be given a fair shot the season after.
What blunders are you referring to?
Well i don't see it that way mate, i think continuing with the experience of DeGea and allowing Henderson to come in and take over from Romero in the cup games is a good way to transition him into the side and let the manager see first hand if he's the real deal.
A really bad one against Arsenal last month, just off the top of my head
Is he making as many as De Gea would you say?
I would say they are similar, but De Gea's have been more high profile. When Dean makes a mistake at Sheffield, nobody really cares, and it is usually forgotten 24 hrs later, but he actually cost his team the cup with that. Some of the goals he's let in this season have been pretty weak as well, and not just De Gea but any decent keeper like Kepa would've saved them. Either he reacts too late, or his positioning was a bit off.
Romero has been number 2 for several years, without making particular fuss about it.
The data shows that Henderson has conceded 8 less than expected this season so even if he’s making some mistakes then he’s more than compensating for it by saving a lot shots that would be expected to go in. De Gea is at about par so it shows that mistakes aside for both players Henderson has done a much better job overall this season. He leads DDG In pretty much every statistical measure.
Don't think that is a factor. He had that level of security even during his peak years at the club and in fact was carrying us at times. Adding in competition for places isn't going to help him.
Data like that only makes sense if he was given a season here and he finished with those stats. Two completely different environments and expectations. I would rather look at each individual mistake, as well as how he conceded some of the goals, and they were either positioning error or he got beaten on the near post.
That highlighted bit if true, madness gone mad as bar Bruno (Jan n all) the rest of them have made many mistakes that have costed us over the past few yrs, so they are in no position to run their mouths.
You actually posed a possible solution there.
Nice!So you decide to completely ignore the fact that he is in the top3 bracket of players who are directly responsible for errors leading to goals? And this is only being him directly responsible for conceding.
You realise the stats don’t remotely back that argument up?
I realized you've already made up your mind, despite not having actually watching his matches
Sure you can do that analysis to assess strengths and weaknesses but xG stats give a better overall impression of value to a team. They key error in looking at mistakes only is they don’t tell you all the great saves that are bailing out their teams. xG offers an indication to that balance.
Based on what? that DDG has been poor? If DDG was still world class, would you still say the same?
That happened to Joe Hart, he currently is clubless
The Beeb just did an article on it today. Put simply, Henderson is saving shots that De Gea isn’t and is making fewer mistakes.
I like these ideas but giving the highest paid goalkeeper in the world a holiday for a month doesn't sit well. It feels like a fast track to loaning him to Inter while we still pay his wages type of gamble, what if he comes back even more out of it? We'll struggle to sell him then, more than we would do currently.You actually posed a possible solution there.
Also consistent with the current and upcoming seasons.
Season 20/21
1. Dean back with us.
2. First month of next season, Dean play most of the games with Romero back-ups.
3. De Gea given one month holiday (justification? = De Gea need a "break" to get back his normal form, maybe Ole can mention the break given to Schmeichel by SAF)
4. If Dean convinces, stay and keep his place.
5. If Dean is shaky and terrible ala Foster, we may need De Gea back if we're really serious in winning trophies and doing better next season.
6. Scenario #4 would meant De Gea can start fishing for new clubs and go away the earliest Jan 21'.
7. Scenario #5 meant we may need to loan back Dean (if still can) to get more exps.
Either scenario, we lose nothing.
The break may even jog De Gea to get back his "normal" form with almost zero mistakes every game.
Done!
Easy.
Think he’ll level out again as a top keeper, he probably needs a move first though
Clearly based on the fact that he’s an incredibly highly rated keeper within the game and at Utd and has outperformed many of the statistical measures over the course of the season. I don’t really see why that needs any justification to be honest as it pretty obvious why he deserves a chance.
People have posted those stats before.
That's probably why you arent paid the big bucks to make these kinds of decisions. I rate him highly myself, but he is a 23 year old with one year of PL experience. So, it's not that obvious and it shouldn't be.
So you were deliberately ignoring them?
50K a week into his back pocket to sit on the bench for one of the biggest clubs in the world why would he
They were irrelevant to what ive been saying
