Persisting with DDG unsettles our entire back line as evidenced by the crazy goals we have given away this season,time to give Henderson a run of at least 10 league games to before forming an opinion one way or the other.DDG is not the answer and should leave this summer,in an ideal world!
IMO you should give Henderson at least the rest of the season.
My reasoning is that your team’s presently set up to try to play further forward but with consideration for what DDG can and can’t do.
With Henderson in net you’ll be able to play in a more contemporary manner and push further up the field with confidence, but that will take time to develop because the outfield players will need to change what they do to make most benefit from the skill set that Henderson brings.
My opinion re DDG is contrary to most of what I read in here. He’s constantly slated for going downhill but I think that his troubles are virtue of the changing nature of the game and Ole pushing you up as much as he dare, with a static keeper, and thus putting DDG on the very edge of his comfort zone.
It’s an odd middle ground approach that pushes you up the field but not enough to be as effective as you could be against low block defences.
However, the fact that you actually do play further forward is leaving DDG more exposed than he’s comfortable with and that’s knocking his confidence.
If we could wind back football strategies by 4 or 5 years then DDG would still be playing in an environment that he’d excel in and he’d still be being lavished with praise by the sporting media. But that’s not going to happen so I recon that dropping him to allow the whole team to play a more modern game is the way forward.
Benching the best paid keeper in christendom or putting him on loan with you meeting most of his wages or paying him a king’s ransom to get him to walk away may sound like 3 unbearable options but sometimes you’ve got to grasp the nettle.