Can we afford to let De Gea go? Our most consistent performer since Fergie left. Who could possibly replace him? In my opinion he's the best keeper in the world, and still has many years ahead of him. I doubt many would disagree with me.
Woodward should be doing everything to get him to sign a new contract. Pay him whatever he wants. Surely he deserves it. IMO, he'd be a strong candidate for the captains armband too.
If Woodword had an ounce of footballing knowledge we would not be in this situation. Instead we are letting our key players run down their contracts and are happy to pay dross like Sanchez buckets full of money.
Ok, he's had a few terrible games and cost us the CL place. But surely we can forgive that. It's not like the rest of our team played the games of their lives and did their best but De Gea let us down. The entire team were shambolic and of course this is bound have an effect on others.
With our crooked defence last year De Gea managed 19 clean sheets. A pretty decent return. Plus only thrice since 2010 has he finished outside the top two in the clean sheets table, and one of them years he finished third.
Check out this video that I stumbled across on YouTube showing his good performances. https://youtu.be/0Jxiey9lVok
His stats since joining.
Appearances275
Clean sheets100
Wins156
Losses57
Goalkeeping
Saves772
Penalties saved2
Punches99
High Claims176
Catches96
Sweeper clearances81
Throw outs1,050
Goal Kicks2,180
Defence
Clean sheets100
Goals conceded278
Errors leading to goal10
Own goals1
Discipline
Yellow cards4
Red cards0
Fouls1
Team Play
Goals0
Assists0
Passes6,193
Passes per match22.52
Accurate long balls1,842
https://www.premierleague.com/players/4330/David-de-Gea/overview
Can we afford to let him go...?
posted on 5/6/19
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baz ta’rd (U19119)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 2 minutes ago
People miss the point with Romero.
Let's say we have 2 options with De Gea. Sell him this summer and get a fair bit of cash which we can reinvest, or lose him on a free the next. The sensible option is the first one.
As it would stand, that would leave something like the following as our first team:
Romero
Young
Smalling
Lindelof
Shaw
Matic
McT
Pogba
Lingard
Rashford
Martial
Would anyone really say that replacing Romero in that first 11 would be a priority? There are about 6 positions I would look at before him.
He isn't a world class keeper or anything and I would look at replacing him at some point, but we could do a lot worse. I would go as far as to say he's the 4th best keeper I've seen at our club in the 25-odd years my memory stretches back to (albeit some way behind the top 3)
And in fact, some of those weaknesses I mentioned for De Gea earlier, Romero trumps him in those areas.
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Agreed, there’s a lot of snobbery about Romero, we’ve been spoilt by de gea. Romero would do just fine.
I’d strengthen elsewhere before even thinking about keeper if ddg goes.we’ll likely need to replace pogba, to get like for like we’ll need to rotate him with a statue one week and a top footballer the next, if we want the same consistency and motivation levelsThere’s a lot more we need to look at before keeper
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I don’t think it’s snobbery.
The reality is the lad is 32 and has had a fairly ordinary club career.
If we brought in a CB of similar status as 1st choice there would be uproar.
posted on 5/6/19
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baz ta’rd (U19119)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 2 minutes ago
People miss the point with Romero.
Let's say we have 2 options with De Gea. Sell him this summer and get a fair bit of cash which we can reinvest, or lose him on a free the next. The sensible option is the first one.
As it would stand, that would leave something like the following as our first team:
Romero
Young
Smalling
Lindelof
Shaw
Matic
McT
Pogba
Lingard
Rashford
Martial
Would anyone really say that replacing Romero in that first 11 would be a priority? There are about 6 positions I would look at before him.
He isn't a world class keeper or anything and I would look at replacing him at some point, but we could do a lot worse. I would go as far as to say he's the 4th best keeper I've seen at our club in the 25-odd years my memory stretches back to (albeit some way behind the top 3)
And in fact, some of those weaknesses I mentioned for De Gea earlier, Romero trumps him in those areas.
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Agreed, there’s a lot of snobbery about Romero, we’ve been spoilt by de gea. Romero would do just fine.
I’d strengthen elsewhere before even thinking about keeper if ddg goes.we’ll likely need to replace pogba, to get like for like we’ll need to rotate him with a statue one week and a top footballer the next, if we want the same consistency and motivation levelsThere’s a lot more we need to look at before keeper
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I don’t think it’s snobbery.
The reality is the lad is 32 and has had a fairly ordinary club career.
If we brought in a CB of similar status as 1st choice there would be uproar.
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Perhaps, maybe it’s just a touch of ignorance. He’s a decent keeper.
posted on 5/6/19
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baz ta’rd (U19119)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baz ta’rd (U19119)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 2 minutes ago
People miss the point with Romero.
Let's say we have 2 options with De Gea. Sell him this summer and get a fair bit of cash which we can reinvest, or lose him on a free the next. The sensible option is the first one.
As it would stand, that would leave something like the following as our first team:
Romero
Young
Smalling
Lindelof
Shaw
Matic
McT
Pogba
Lingard
Rashford
Martial
Would anyone really say that replacing Romero in that first 11 would be a priority? There are about 6 positions I would look at before him.
He isn't a world class keeper or anything and I would look at replacing him at some point, but we could do a lot worse. I would go as far as to say he's the 4th best keeper I've seen at our club in the 25-odd years my memory stretches back to (albeit some way behind the top 3)
And in fact, some of those weaknesses I mentioned for De Gea earlier, Romero trumps him in those areas.
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Agreed, there’s a lot of snobbery about Romero, we’ve been spoilt by de gea. Romero would do just fine.
I’d strengthen elsewhere before even thinking about keeper if ddg goes.we’ll likely need to replace pogba, to get like for like we’ll need to rotate him with a statue one week and a top footballer the next, if we want the same consistency and motivation levelsThere’s a lot more we need to look at before keeper
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I don’t think it’s snobbery.
The reality is the lad is 32 and has had a fairly ordinary club career.
If we brought in a CB of similar status as 1st choice there would be uproar.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Perhaps, maybe it’s just a touch of ignorance. He’s a decent keeper.
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Oh he’s decent no doubt about that but the fact is we finished 6th mainly because we’ve a team of mainly decent players.
We need better than decent and replacing a world class player with a decent one is not the answer right now.
posted on 5/6/19
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 55 seconds ago
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baz ta’rd (U19119)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baz ta’rd (U19119)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 2 minutes ago
People miss the point with Romero.
Let's say we have 2 options with De Gea. Sell him this summer and get a fair bit of cash which we can reinvest, or lose him on a free the next. The sensible option is the first one.
As it would stand, that would leave something like the following as our first team:
Romero
Young
Smalling
Lindelof
Shaw
Matic
McT
Pogba
Lingard
Rashford
Martial
Would anyone really say that replacing Romero in that first 11 would be a priority? There are about 6 positions I would look at before him.
He isn't a world class keeper or anything and I would look at replacing him at some point, but we could do a lot worse. I would go as far as to say he's the 4th best keeper I've seen at our club in the 25-odd years my memory stretches back to (albeit some way behind the top 3)
And in fact, some of those weaknesses I mentioned for De Gea earlier, Romero trumps him in those areas.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Agreed, there’s a lot of snobbery about Romero, we’ve been spoilt by de gea. Romero would do just fine.
I’d strengthen elsewhere before even thinking about keeper if ddg goes.we’ll likely need to replace pogba, to get like for like we’ll need to rotate him with a statue one week and a top footballer the next, if we want the same consistency and motivation levelsThere’s a lot more we need to look at before keeper
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I don’t think it’s snobbery.
The reality is the lad is 32 and has had a fairly ordinary club career.
If we brought in a CB of similar status as 1st choice there would be uproar.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Perhaps, maybe it’s just a touch of ignorance. He’s a decent keeper.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Oh he’s decent no doubt about that but the fact is we finished 6th mainly because we’ve a team of mainly decent players.
We need better than decent and replacing a world class player with a decent one is not the answer right now.
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We have more pressing positions to fill, that’s the point. Ddg would be a huge loss- by miles the best in our team, but we could strengthen in multiple areas, which would make us a different beast entirely.
posted on 5/6/19
Buffoon (41) is a free agent
posted on 6/6/19
We will need to replace De Gea if he were to leave. Romero may be a decent stop gap, but that's all he'll be. He has flaws in his games too. And he's never been able to hold down the number one spot in his two previous teams in France and Italy.
posted on 6/6/19
comment by United we win (U19958)
posted 11 hours, 31 minutes ago
Romero is not that good and people will see this if he’s number 1. Then they will retract their comments
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This. He is absolutely rubbish with the ball at his feet for starters, and with our defenders love of the back pass, it would be a recipe for disaster. Add to that, that he's pretty small for a keeper and some of the saves he makes look good would be routine for others.
As for DDG, I'm a little on the fence. Whilst I take on board the weaknesses that were mentioned by an earlier poster, my main issue would be that he clearly lost focus as last season wore on. Not sure if this was because he was thinking about a move, but if it was, that problem is only likely to become larger next season if he doesn't sign a new contract. We really shouldn't let players reach this point in their contracts
posted on 8/6/19
It's a wierd one. I think back to previous seasons, and cant remember thinking "Christ, De Gea, you should have got to that" more than this last season. However, he, for the most part, is amazing. I dunno... Nah, keep him.
posted on 8/6/19
The mantra of the millennial Utd fan. “So and so is not good enough. We need to spend 100m on each position”.
They never realise that's the problem.
posted on 9/6/19
The problem is also that the guys who occupy the current positions aren't a "David Beckham", a "Solskjaer" or even a Rio Ferdinand. Those guys always gave their all as a prerequisite. Pogba and Martial? Not so much. We need a leader, someone who tells that dressing room what it should mean to play for United. Roy Keane would tear that dressing room apart, and righhtly so