Gianluigi Donnaruma

It's hard to see how we'd pull this off, him choosing to leave PSG for the 15th placed English side would be odd. Particularly if City want him I'm not sure how we'd compete. And I'm reading on twitter from Italian media that Real Madrid might want him too, as apparently Cortious only has a year left on his deal? In which case you'd have to ask if we could bring in Cortious if Madrid decide to offload him, though it may be a shorter term signing so price would have to be reasonable.

I don't watch him week in week out but he was rated as one of the best around when Italy won the Euros, then seemed to have a long period where everyone thought he was a bit shite, but his CL knockouts performances in the 2nd half of this season have suddenly put him back in the discussions of being the world's best? I'd rather we make this decision based off his underlying stats and performances over years rather than the odd high profile game in a run of good form.

Having said that he is a bit of a beast in terms of size, makes saves others can't because of his reach and we'd finally have a keeper who can save pens. He is only 26 so very young for a keeper really - theoretically not hit his peak yet.
 
To me it's a no go. We should aim for less drama in GK signing. This is too high profile to get into bidding war with PSG and City. We don't have the money for this. We have other more pressing problem to solve.
 
Raoul said:
Also, the tweet in the OP is misleading, which is why we don't want tweets from aggregators on this site.
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When was this a thing?

Because 90% of the tweets in tweet threads would vanish in my opinion.
 
VP89 said:
Hold on - this reporter is Tier 2 here on the caf and on reddit. He's not some gossip trafficking merchant.

He's known to be very credible with PSG, so when he posts confirmed interest or talks, people listen. I don't know why you are expecting quotes, that's literally never how it works even with Ornstein or Whitwell or Ben Jacobs or Romano. They don't say "Manchester United open talks with Mbeumo, here is a quote from Jason Wilcox confirming it".

The tweet wasnt misleading either, it literally took the words from the article that a Tier 2 journalist made. If you think Donnaruma/PSG are just negotiating and this is a tactic then fine - but its worth noting that's addressed in the article too.
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The tiers are not a real thing and have no correlation with reality. They're simply a fan invented way of looking at transfer stories. They also don't have any bearing on whether or not the substance of a specific story is accurate or not.

The OP tweet is misleading because it doesn't provide a direct link to the actual article where this guy made a vague comment about United and City. If the aggregator account wanted to, they could've easily linked to the Lequipe article instead of sending people to a Twitter account that didn't substantiate what was in the tweet.
 
UnitedSofa said:
When was this a thing?

Because 90% of the tweets in tweet threads would vanish in my opinion.
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That's why we encourage linking directly to highly respected journos like Ornstein, Romano et al. There's far less chance of BS to come from them than random spambot aggregators.
 
I would prefer to hijack the Maignan deal. Would cost much less than going into bidding war with City
 
Raoul said:
He's the best in the world at the moment for me. Probably has 10 years of top football left in him, especially when you consider how long the likes of Buffon and VdS played for.
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This makes me wonder how much you've really watched PSG outside of their CL games this season. Because he's been distinctly bad for large chunks of his time there, including for big parts of season just gone and in big CL games prior to this season.

Here's a taste of opinions on him from a PSG fan forum back in March (right before he hit a run of good games in the CL starting with the game against Liverpool):

The fact that the average Safonov or even Tenas were mentioned as competitors for the number 1 position says it all.
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We've known for a long time that we should have let him go. We should have had a goalkeeper of Alisson's level for a long time. We're cursed in this position.
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He's been expensive in the Champions League since his arrival and it continues to add up. I don't think Chevalier is the solution, but something has to be done.
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He is not at the level
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I fecking hate him.
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Can't we try to go all out on a top goalkeeper? Just go crazy in this position where we're at our worst.
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I hate him too, eh - but he's still hard to replace
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Luckily he makes saves from time to time but this season he costs much more than he brings in. Every time he makes a save, even a simple one, he exults as if he were giving the World Cup to his team. As soon as the ball is more than two meters high, it seems to go out of his field of vision and to top it all off he must be in the top 3 highest paid goalkeepers in the world.
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I've always defended him, but I raise my hands, it's impossible to pay so much for an average player who doesn't reassure anyone.
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Liverpool brought in Alisson just after Karius's horrible performance, if I'm not mistaken. It's up to us to follow his example.
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One thing is certain, we cannot trust him in key moments, he remains a good goalkeeper but let's not renew him.
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He's been better lately, but the first half of the season has been very average, even in Ligue 1.
And in the Champions League, he's mostly involved in our defeats.
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The guy is taking an exorbitant amount of money and he has lost the public's trust. He needs to be replaced at the end of the season, that's all.
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It's sad, but even Petrovic from Strasbourg is better...
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Stop, he's made some blunders in very different contexts. Every year it's the same and there's always something that goes wrong at the end. [...] I've said it from the beginning, he doesn't offer the guarantees necessary to go for the title. We messed up by negotiating the Navas move badly. It was a good opportunity, but the club should have targeted another goalkeeper a long time ago
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He's having a bad season even in Ligue 1. I don't see how anyone can defend him.
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He'll certainly be a good goalkeeper on a team that doesn't have the ball. That'll never happen with us. We have a real curse (for a change) in that position, it's still terrible.
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Gigio hasn't had a single great match for PSG in the Champions League in four years. Not one.
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It's hard to compare Navas, the second best goalkeeper we ever had at Donnaruma, who will end up in the basement of our club's history alongside a vulgar Letizi or Landreau.
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For me this new error signals the end of his career in Paris, he can't get past this block that makes him a clown in the Champions League.
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And there's a lot more where that came from.

Even taking into account how histrionic fan forums can be, you don't get that narrative building around a player when they're actually the best goalkeeper in the world.
 
Raoul said:
The tiers are not a real thing and have no correlation with reality. They're simply a fan invented way of looking at transfer stories. They also don't have any bearing on whether or not the substance of a specific story is accurate or not.

The OP tweet is misleading because it doesn't provide a direct link to the actual article where this guy made a vague comment about United and City. If the aggregator account wanted to, they could've easily linked to the Lequipe article instead of sending people to a Twitter account that didn't substantiate what was in the tweet.
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The job of an aggregator is to aggregate news. Tiers are there to rank credibility. This reporter has a high accuracy rate which is why he's ranked accordingly.
 
sullydnl said:
This makes me wonder how much you've really watched PSG outside of their CL games this season. Because he's been distinctly bad for large chunks of his time there, including for big parts of season just gone and in big CL games prior to this season.

Here's a taste of opinions on him from a PSG fan forum back in March (right before he hit a run of good games in the CL starting with the game against Liverpool):


And there's a lot more where that came from.

Even taking into account how histrionic fan forums can be, you don't get that narrative building around a player when they're actually the best goalkeeper in the world.
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I haven't watched every game, but he's been very good in the random ones I have seen.
 
VP89 said:
The job of an aggregator is to aggregate news. Tiers are there to rank credibility. This reporter has a high accuracy rate which is why he's ranked accordingly.
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Third party aggregator sites have historically been little more than useless clickbait factories because they don't quality control what they post. They're simply in the business of driving traffic to their monetized accounts. Its up to posters here to be more responsible and selective about what they repost.
 
If he ends up at us it will be because he’s done a reverse Robinho.
 
Wouldn‘t be suprised that we’re being used for his new contract, since his current one ends next year.
 
He’s a bit of a gobshite. Milan offered him a good salary and the captaincy if he stayed. He chased the money to PSG.

As a player don’t think he has developed as he should have. Hes got a huge frame but is average at best at coming and collecting high crosses. A bit like DeGea in many regards. Good shot stopper and would demand a high salary
 
I think his wage would be too crazy, especially considering his contract length etc. so it would be a no thanks from me. He’ll end up extending at PSG and staying.
 
It’s so frustrating we spunked all that dosh on garbage over the years

We should be up there now and making signings like this when they crop up
 
Raoul said:
I haven't watched every game, but he's been very good in the random ones I have seen.
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Yet you said with confidence that he’s the best in the world for you. So you decided that on a handful of random games? :lol: That’s crazy
 
Please close this thread. There is absolutely zero chance of us signing the goalkeeper that just won the champions league
 
Yakuza_devils said:
To me it's a no go. We should aim for less drama in GK signing. This is too high profile to get into bidding war with PSG and City. We don't have the money for this. We have other more pressing problem to solve.
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Think Ineos is smart enough to walk away from these deals.
 
90THMIN... said:
Yet you said with confidence that he’s the best in the world for you. So you decided that on a handful of random games? :lol: That’s crazy
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More than a handful but yes. I seriously doubt anyone here who isn't a PSG fan would've watched every single game. Likewise with Allison and Liverpool, and those who consider him the best.
 
He's 26 years old which is crazy but I doubt we will ever sign him, I had a similar thought with Casemiro when we got him though
 
FriedClams said:
Please close this thread. There is absolutely zero chance of us signing the goalkeeper that just won the champions league
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Agreed. But I don't think them winning the CL would have anything to do with it, given that we signed Casemiro immediately after he won one, and Mount just a couple of years before he did as well.
 
golden_blunder said:
Allison is still one of the better goalkeepers around in my opinion so he’ll have a fight on to be number 1 straight away
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I assume he meant more impressive than Donnarumma. Would be insane to rate him higher than Alisson. Alisson is the best in the world.
 
He's won the Champions League with PSG. Helping Manchester United back up there would be a pretty special target and achievement
 
Maybe I'm underestimating the pull we've got, but I don't see why PSG's first choice keeper, who's well known to be earning a high wage and has just won the treble, would leave to come here and likely earn less.
 
Ted Lasso said:
He's won the Champions League with PSG. Helping Manchester United back up there would be a pretty special target and achievement
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'Now that I have my first Michelin star, there is only one great challenge left in this industry... winning one as the branch manager of a KFC.'
 
Raoul said:
Agreed. But I don't think them winning the CL would have anything to do with it, given that we signed Casemiro immediately after he won one, and Mount just a couple of years before he did as well.
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We didn’t sign either of those players off the back of our worst season ever in the PL though.
 
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