United is a club that he knows and whom he had a great relationship with up until Ole and Henderson showed up (both are leaving or had left). At age 35 there aren't many options left for him so he can't really snub a move at a top club like ours especially one who pays top salaries as we do.
Sergio Romero interested in Manchester United return
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
Yeah because McShane was signed for the first team.
Well, he's the sort of 2nd choice GK we should have. Generally solid and reliable, happy to be the designated backup. Not some kind of "challenger" for the top spot on huge wages.
Proven no. 2, well known around the club, family are nested in the area and has plenty of experience. Re-sign him!!
Sounds like he and his wife realized the grass isn't actually greener on the other side, and that no one gave a feck about them after they left.
100% - Heaton is getting on but very capable. Why spend anything at all on Romero?
God knows why we signed McShane. He was a shit player even in his prime let alone in his mid 30s.
fantastic back up option as a keeper and a great professional, cant see it happening though after the way he left, not his doing though.
Fair point - I'd honestly forgotten about Heaton.
In theory, he should do as a 2nd choice. Experienced, pretty solid, etc.
Then again, if ETH for some reason or other positively fancies Romero - I guess that's fair enough too (provided we don't offer him a stupid contract).
feck me the group think going on here. Romero was shit. Do not want him back. Never let us down as he only ever played against the minnows of Europe in the Europa league. Anytime he faced decent opposition which was rare he was ropey as feck.
Now she’s experienced life away from United’s cash rich udder she’s realised the error of her ways.
Struggling to identify the point.
Why sign Heaton if he's not good enough to be second choice? A youngster can play third choice. Not sure why we go mad with keepers.
Why sign Heaton if he's not good enough to be second choice? A youngster can play third choice. Not sure why we go mad with keepers.
Why??
Anyone said he'd end up as #1 under EtH yet?
Pretty sure he was only signed to play for the reserves with a view to a coaching role. So let's not pretend he was signed to play for the first team mate.
Examples?
This is a bit wrong. We agreed a 2m fee with Everton then changed our minds last minute and wanted 7m instead so the deal collapsed. Understandably he got pissed off. We lost 2m fee and had to pay his wages. Bad way to treat people that we had no intention of using and who had been an excellent number 2
Correct, we were short of CBs for reserve action so he was signed with a stipulation that he’d be coaching as well. It was only a short term thing
I never said that. However buying some shit mid 30 year old to play in the reserves only to them hire him as coach is stupid. He could either retire and start as a coach or return a year later once he had retired. Ole jobs for the boys and british core BS backfired spectaculary
I'm not sure how accurate it is, but I did once read somewhere that he had a recurring injury that made it difficult for him to start too many games in a row. Not sure if it was related to the the knee surgery that he had at the end of last season. It could also have been a completely made-up story, but it would explain why he seemed happy to stick around so long as our #2 despite certainly being good enough to be the #1 at other teams in the top leagues.
Things seemed to change at the end of 19/20 when Ole dropped him at the semi-final stage in all three of the Europa, FA Cup and EFL Cup (despite De Gea playing poorly all season). There were rumours that Romero wasn't happy with that, and it probably made it worse that we lost all of them with De Gea making huge mistakes in 3 of the 5 goals we conceded in the first two. Then the relationship seemed to completely break down in 20/21 when he was relegated to 3rd choice and the club didn't let him leave. He probably would have been happy to continue here as a valued #2.
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Never once let us down and kept a load of clean sheets on his way to a European final... where he got dropped. Treated like a third class citizen and denied a move he wanted (and deserved) because we were concerned about strengthening Everton. I think he had a raw deal and he's more than a decent no 2. What's he done to deserve this sort of random hatred
like I'd "get it" for Pogba but Romero?!Did we actually though?
From what I can remember the story was Mino was shopping him around for less than United wanted.
Edit: apparently it was Everton that proposed the £2m fee according to the Athletic.
https://www.caughtoffside.com/2020/10/12/man-united-blocked-eleventh-hour-romero-to-everton-switch/
Yeah alright mate.
British core, yet 9 of his 14 signings were foreigners. Well done.
Probably one of of most successful signings in the post SAF era considering he actually successfully did the job he was signed for
It's just business, when the money is right, everything is forgiven
His time here was massively overhyped but I would take him over every other keeper we've been linked with as a back up. He got mugged off by Solskjaer, classic example of his shite management.
I actually think it's fine. What's the point of a backup kid GK in the reserves. He won't play, just train...
Turned down £7m bid from Everton, let him leave for free, then buy him back
I feel bad because he seems like a good guy but I had no idea he left.
I forget Valdes used to even play for us.
Not in the least bit surprising
Under Cardiff our first team had Shaw, AWB, Maguire in defence and McT, Rashford and Greenwood/Sancho in midfield. That's a British core.
Knee problems so wants a contract
An ok cup keeper, but he looked iffy every time he had any prolonged spell in the team. Romeromania is quite the strange phenomena.
Me too!
On Romero, think he'd be a good backup, will suit ETH better than De Gea I think and may even make him play better, like we saw under Van Gaal
Was arguably the best backup in European football. And he was a backup to best GK
Go ahead diss me
Go ahead diss me
I don’t really see the point, I’d be surprised if there’s anything in this.
Should never have left the way he was booted out in the first place.
We also pay wellI thought he was treated very shabbily by the Club in his final year, surprised he doesn't hold a grudge, but I suppose that was under the Woodworm regime..
From the negativity in the thread you would think he would be coming back as 1st choice, I see no harm in bringing him back for 1 season as it doesn't look like we are remotely looking at any better options as back up to de gea