De Gea's confident is clearly shot. Not sure dropping him will fix that. After 5 years of being a one man defence, it is inevitable he would see a period of poor form.
But this is shocking. I haven't seen a worse run of games put in by other goalkeepers whereby they retain their place.
He's getting older, it's time to make him someone else's problem, if indeed he is on the decline.
Decisions all involve risk. Nothing is ever certain. But likelihoods can be discussed. For me he will, like everyone, get worse with age. 8 years we've used him for, that's good usage of an asset. Besides the fact he's wanted to go for some time, on performances and asset management alone it's time to get him out whilst his value is ok.
Aside from that his contract demands are ridiculous and for the sake of this club, the dressing room, the finances into the future... we need to make a stand.