Gianluigi Donnarumma | Man City player

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No doubt I'd go for Donnaruma if it's a choice between a GK or a striker.

I think one of our #10 could play as a false 9 in a fluid front 3 if needed.
Also I have not written Zirkzee off yet, think he might have a great season actually.
 
Rolaholic said:
So he's worth as much as Villa want for Emi Martinez :lol: :lol:

If we end having to choose between a keeper and a striker, I'd go with Donnarumma easily. Could be a key part of the teams spine for the long term.

You dont get his type of caliber of keeper available often and he's likely not even in his real prime yet as a keeper still being just 26.

I just wonder if he'd ever be willing to trade the CL winners for us in our current state. I guess Di Maria kind of did that but that feels like a lifetime ago :lol:
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Donnaruma is also prone to blunders and mistakes like Onana, people tend to forget this. I remember him being abysmal against Real Madrid a couple of years ago and basically costing PSG the UCL that season. He was very good this season though, but he's a very up and down goalkeeper.
huyn said:
The thing is, if you dont get a GK, it'll be Onana all season no matter what. If you dont buy a striker you have other options, you have players like Bruno, Amad or Mount who can play 10 and have Mbeumo play the 9 like he did in France.
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Or you could buy a cheap goalkeeper and find a top striker who is going to guarantee you 15-20 goals a season. Donnaruma could easily turn into Onana 2.0 because he's not very consistent and he's prone to mistakes.
 
If his salary demands are too high for PSG of all clubs, they’re almost certainly going to be too high for us
 
huyn said:
Yea Zirkzee too and Obi seems to be staying (?) so it probably means Amorim counts on him (personally I'd love to see Bruno as a false 9 experiment but it's unlikely).
It's just my personal opinion but between GK and ST given your current situation, I'd go with a GK 100%, you've witnessed first hand how many points a bad GK can cost you. With the ST position you can get creative like PSG did with Dembélé or Arsenal with Merino.
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Agree with you mate
 
Get it done, a good goalkeeper is harder to come by and the striker options currently available are not worth the outlay.

At Worst you can play either Mbeumo or Cunha up front and let Bruno play the 10.

Only concern is the wage
 
He’ll likely want an increase on his current salary (googling tells me this is £214k pw), so it’d be in excess of £11.2m per year. Onana is on £120k pw/ £6.2m per year.

100% the club will replace Onana given the opportunity, but I expect we look for someone cheaper. He’s worth as much as Villa want for Martinez, but Martinez is “only” on £125k.
 
KingEric04 said:
Or you could buy a cheap goalkeeper and find a top striker who is going to guarantee you 15-20 goals a season. Donnaruma could easily turn into Onana 2.0 because he's not very consistent and he's prone to mistakes.
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Cheap promising GKs can be found but top strikers who guarantee you 20 goals a season dont grow on trees, most of the top strikers on the market have already moved. The only realistic option left is Ollie Watkins and Villa wants a premium since they are skint from PSR and can't really reinforce the team.
 
These links are tiresome, you just know they're bs

What does Donny want now? Big new contract? Another rich club with the money? bit of fame, maybe? Going through a separation?
 
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huyn said:
Cheap promising GKs can be found but top strikers who guarantee you 20 goals a season dont grow on trees, most of the top strikers on the market have already moved. The only realistic option left is Ollie Watkins and Villa wants a premium since they are skint from PSR and can't really reinforce the team.
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Exactly, I’d rather Lammens + Watkins
 
Why not go for the supposed Donnarumma replacement instead? Based on highlights, this Chevalier guy looks like the new DDG. Not enough samples to see if he is as weak or not on crosses, but he does look like an interesting talent.

 
NotQuiteManc said:
Why not go for the supposed Donnarumma replacement instead? Based on highlights, this Chevalier guy looks like the new DDG. Not enough samples to see if he is as weak or not on crosses, but he does look like an interesting talent.

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He's a massive talent and will be the France no. 1. He'll also be very expensive and is unlikely to pick anyone else if PSG are offering to make him their first choice GK.

I'm not overly surprised to see Donnarumma up for sale - he's not really an Enrique-type goalkeeper - quite old school, very good shot stopper but not great with the ball at his feet. He was poor at commanding his area and coming for crosses, too, but improved a lot in that regard during the course of last season (otherwise he might have been replaced in January).
 
NotQuiteManc said:
Why not go for the supposed Donnarumma replacement instead? Based on highlights, this Chevalier guy looks like the new DDG. Not enough samples to see if he is as weak or not on crosses, but he does look like an interesting talent.

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You think we can beat out P$G for one of France's best talents?
 
KingEric04 said:
Donnaruma is also prone to blunders and mistakes like Onana, people tend to forget this. I remember him being abysmal against Real Madrid a couple of years ago and basically costing PSG the UCL that season. He was very good this season though, but he's a very up and down goalkeeper.

Or you could buy a cheap goalkeeper and find a top striker who is going to guarantee you 15-20 goals a season. Donnaruma could easily turn into Onana 2.0 because he's not very consistent and he's prone to mistakes.
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Please don’t put Onana in the same sentence as Donnarumma, he is not fit to lace his boots. Every keeper makes mistakes, Onana rarely does anything other than mistakes. Donnarumma is a generational GK talent, sadly we surely can’t afford him.
 
Infra-red said:
He's a massive talent and will be the France no. 1. He'll also be very expensive and is unlikely to pick anyone else if PSG are offering to make him their first choice GK.

I'm not overly surprised to see Donnarumma up for sale - he's not really an Enrique-type goalkeeper - quite old school, very good shot stopper but not great with the ball at his feet. He was poor at commanding his area and coming for crosses, too, but improved a lot in that regard during the course of last season (otherwise he might have been replaced in January).
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General strategy should always be to get the next best thing. At keast we should try
 
If he's available go and get him over the striker IMO.

If the right players are on the market you have to get them.

I'm not sure about the current quality of strikers on the market at the prices mentioned, perhaps we wait a season and go for a GK and CM this summer
 
stepic said:
If his salary demands are too high for PSG of all clubs, they’re almost certainly going to be too high for us
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For once the merseyside galacticos cant possibly buy him as they have two top keepers already
 
NotQuiteManc said:
Why not go for the supposed Donnarumma replacement instead? Based on highlights, this Chevalier guy looks like the new DDG. Not enough samples to see if he is as weak or not on crosses, but he does look like an interesting talent.
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The French league seems to be full of some very talented players, so i'm surprised INEOS haven't looked for some bargains yet (especially for the midfield).

As far as Donnarumma is concerned, he's an obvious upgrade on Onana but the fee+wages package won't fit in our supposedly new structure. I'm all for that Senne Lammens lad - seems promising and will be hungry to prove himself.
 
If it means signing him then I’d be prepared to move the CM and striker signings to the next two transfer windows. Whilst not ideal , we do have Zirkzee who can connect well with Mbuemo and Cunha I feel,, Onana on the other hand is a disaster and complete liability.
 
Infra-red said:
He's a massive talent and will be the France no. 1. He'll also be very expensive and is unlikely to pick anyone else if PSG are offering to make him their first choice GK.

I'm not overly surprised to see Donnarumma up for sale - he's not really an Enrique-type goalkeeper - quite old school, very good shot stopper but not great with the ball at his feet. He was poor at commanding his area and coming for crosses, too, but improved a lot in that regard during the course of last season (otherwise he might have been replaced in January).
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Bold part. Maybe that is what this United team need. Back-to-basic approach, at least defensively. Get the team running steady first before anything else.
 
If we can't sign him, can we instead try to sign his cheaper, younger brother, Waluigi?
 
The wages make it a nono really.

Theoretically if you managed to shift onana for 20m it’s possible.
 
Would be a perfect signing. After signing two top attacking talents we will still be looked at as easy to score against just like last year but with Donnrumma in goal that changes everything. Still think it’s a pipe dream but you never know!
 
Ambivalent to this one - I always think he's better than what he shows. He does have some amazing matches, but then he also has some mistakes and isn't the greatest distributor
 
Not sure whether the stats back me up or not but I don't really rate him that highly.

I generally only watch him in Europe but for a while there any time I watched him he was involved in a howler goal. Poor on the ball and pretty bad coming for crosses considering his presence.

Did seem to play better towards the end of last season though.
 
NotQuiteManc said:
Bold part. Maybe that is what this United team need. Back-to-basic approach, at least defensively. Get the team running steady first before anything else.
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In a back three, the goalkeeper is generally a bit less responsible for buildup than in a four. Based on the types of keepers we've mostly been linked with since Amorim arrived, his priorities would seem to be shot stopping and command of the area - he's not looking for an Ederson-style sweeper keeper with elite distribution (or at least those are not the primary attributes he's focused on when finding keepers for his system).

Donnarumma might therefore be a decent fit - the problem, though, is the enormous cost involved - I just cannot imagine United agreeing to the necessary outlay in terms of fee and wages unless Onana was being sold (and that does not look likely). This is a bit of a non-starter I'm afraid.
 
He's not great with the ball to feet. 6"6 but plays like 5 ft keeper under a high ball. Wouldn't be worth the wages he'd be looking for, I'd look elsewhere.

If he leaves. He'll probably end up on loan at Juve until his contract at PSG is up then he'll join them for free.
 
Oranges038 said:
He's not great with the ball to feet. 6"6 but plays like 5 ft keeper under a high ball. Wouldn't be worth the wages he'd be looking for, I'd look elsewhere.

If he leaves. He'll probably end up on loan at Juve until his contract at PSG is up then he'll join them for free.
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Vastly improved against crosses in the past year. People tend to forget he is still only 26. Onana is several years older and several levels lower in standard. United need to replace the clown in goal and could do much worse than go for Donnaruma.
 
TRUE NUMBER 9 said:
Vastly improved against crosses in the past year. People tend to forget he is still only 26. Onana is several years older and several levels lower in standard. United need to replace the clown in goal and could do much worse than go for Donnaruma.
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Fbref has him at 5/6% for most of his professional career on crosses stopped, I don't see this vast improvement has come. That's pretty much the same as Onana. I'm not saying he's not a very good keeper, he is, but I wouldn't touch him on those wages. Honestly, would be better off signing Nick Pope.

Plus, this is probably all just noise, his contract is up next year, expect him to sign a 20m a year deal with PSG soon.
 
You'd hope we've learned our lesson when it comes to picking up Madrid/PSG/Bayern castoffs.
 
NotQuiteManc said:
Why not go for the supposed Donnarumma replacement instead? Based on highlights, this Chevalier guy looks like the new DDG. Not enough samples to see if he is as weak or not on crosses, but he does look like an interesting talent.

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He cannot deceive me, he has the mark of the beast.

Do not want, a bald fraud is all he is.
 
Infra-red said:
He's a massive talent and will be the France no. 1. He'll also be very expensive and is unlikely to pick anyone else if PSG are offering to make him their first choice GK.

I'm not overly surprised to see Donnarumma up for sale - he's not really an Enrique-type goalkeeper - quite old school, very good shot stopper but not great with the ball at his feet. He was poor at commanding his area and coming for crosses, too, but improved a lot in that regard during the course of last season (otherwise he might have been replaced in January).
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He was voted best keeper in the world last season. The reason he's up for sale is because of his financial demands, nothing to do with his football. He gets £11mil a season and PSG want to drop this down to be in line with the rest of the squad. Days of paying stupidly high wages are gone with Messi and Neymar. His original deal finances came because of his free transfer to PSG.

Donnarumma is refusing to take a pay cut to sign a new deal. If he does take a pay cut and signs a new deal, PSG are happy to keep him.

Personally I don't think we have a hope in hell of signing him. Would love to be proven wrong.
 
KingEric04 said:
Donnaruma is also prone to blunders and mistakes like Onana, people tend to forget this. I remember him being abysmal against Real Madrid a couple of years ago and basically costing PSG the UCL that season. He was very good this season though, but he's a very up and down goalkeeper.

Or you could buy a cheap goalkeeper and find a top striker who is going to guarantee you 15-20 goals a season. Donnaruma could easily turn into Onana 2.0 because he's not very consistent and he's prone to mistakes.
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Donnaruma is certainly not an up and down keeper. There is no goalkeeper without mistakes and blunders.
He was also very good the season before that - he was and is among the very best keepers in the world. Donnaruma will not turn into Onana 2.0. It's absurd to insist that he will.

Out of curiosity, who is that magic striker that will guarantee us 15-20 goals a season?
 
Escobar said:
General strategy should always be to get the next best thing. At keast we should try
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We have to remember that the pressure of being our goalkeeper is enormous. Onana has basically been swallowed by it. A young promising player could easily be destroyed by the sort of pressure our goalkeepers are put under as the United #1. De Gea was one of the best shot stoppers in the world and the pressure on him was relentless whenever he didn't meet those standards.
 
Is there any kind of link to him or we just imagining things here?
 
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