I cannot argue that DeGea makes some good saves, but then that is his job,
does he make saves that most other keepers would not? occasionally for sure,
does his poor footwork and throwing distribution put us under pressure? all the time,
does he fail to make or even attempt to make saves you would expect a top keeper to make? regularly
does his lack of command of the area weaken the defence leading to goals given away? regularly
DeGea's positioning (very deep, rarely away from his goal line) means that he has fractions more time to make saves, with his reactions this leads to him making some eye candy saves, however this is misleading, because his deep position also means that some shots often look unsaveable, where in actuality if he stood a pace or 2 further forward the angles would be cut down and the shot would be saveable, compare his positioning to other top drawer keepers past and present, do a bit of imaginary geometry and you will see.... next unsaveable goal we concede, imagine DeGea a pace closer to the striker and look again. That is if DeGea actually attempts the save anyway
I think DeGea's weakness of command of his area has a massive affect on the defence, in terms of the defenders knowing they are basically going to have to cover everything all the way back to the goal line, you stick an actual top goalkeeper in, instead of DeGea and even Maguire starts to look improved, because they are confident that if they get turned their GK is going to be there not stood like a statue on the goal line.
Having lived through some great, bad, mediocre and bizarre goal keepers, I would almost put DeGea in the bizarre category with Barthez, TBH I think I would rather have Barthez
Should we give DeGea a new contract, a big fat no for me, his weaknesses massively outweigh his qualities