De GEA

comment by The Mighty Tottenham Hotspur. (U7858)
posted 3 minutes ago
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Well, that escalated quickly

PSG like having players from us. If they come in for £30m for De Gea we should take it.

https://talksport.com/football/734748/jose-mourinho-david-de-gea-man-united-news-contract/

Why would PSG buy De Gea?

Considering what Utd paid for him, which wasnt that much really, I'm amazed at the latest contract. I doubt he'll be going anywhere.

Sell him on a free. We got him on a bargain

I haven't read it, but apparently a report in the times today mentions that ddg has also been poor in some training sessions, and that certain players are losing confidence in him.

i did wonder about this last night when i watched sheff utd, for me henderson could have done better with their goal. but i doubt that any of the sheffield players saw that and thought "oh dean, come on mate, sort it out".

whereas ddg's errors have frequently been so bad - sunday and the watford one i would be embarrassed to make, and i haven't played GK since one match in primary school - that it must really demoralise/p!ss off his team mates.

to me, being a striker is like being a bowler in cricket, you can bowl 5 awful deliveries (bad misses), but take a wicket with your 6th ball (score a goal), and everyone's happy. if you're a batsman hit 5 balls for glorious 4s (great saves), and then get out to the 6th (let in a bad goal), that's all anyone remembers.

at the moment ddg mixes the sublime with the ridiculous - though in much worse ratios than 4 years ago - but i think you put up with that from a striker, but not from a GK, you'd rather have a GK who is 6 out of 10 every game, than one who varies from a 9 to a 2.

comment by Don Draper's dandruff (U20155)
posted 18 minutes ago
I haven't read it, but apparently a report in the times today mentions that ddg has also been poor in some training sessions, and that certain players are losing confidence in him.

i did wonder about this last night when i watched sheff utd, for me henderson could have done better with their goal. but i doubt that any of the sheffield players saw that and thought "oh dean, come on mate, sort it out".

whereas ddg's errors have frequently been so bad - sunday and the watford one i would be embarrassed to make, and i haven't played GK since one match in primary school - that it must really demoralise/p!ss off his team mates.

to me, being a striker is like being a bowler in cricket, you can bowl 5 awful deliveries (bad misses), but take a wicket with your 6th ball (score a goal), and everyone's happy. if you're a batsman hit 5 balls for glorious 4s (great saves), and then get out to the 6th (let in a bad goal), that's all anyone remembers.

at the moment ddg mixes the sublime with the ridiculous - though in much worse ratios than 4 years ago - but i think you put up with that from a striker, but not from a GK, you'd rather have a GK who is 6 out of 10 every game, than one who varies from a 9 to a 2.
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De Gea looks a beaten man at times recently. He just looks so down when he concedes a goal and there never seems to be that much inquest when we concede either. Just an acceptance. Contrast that to how p***ed off Schmeichel would be. He'd be blaming someone else even if it was completely down to him.

If the players have lost confidence in him then that's bad news. I'd really rather Romero play our next few games. Not as talented as DDG IMO but is a much calmer presence and he does try to dominate his box a bit more than De Gea.

After serving us so well in the barren years it would be a shame if De Gea wasn't able to be part of a team which seems to be heading in the right direction now.

comment by Diafol Coch 77 - A Reputable Poster
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De Gea looks a beaten man at times recently. He just looks so down when he concedes a goal and there never seems to be that much inquest when we concede either. Just an acceptance. Contrast that to how p***ed off Schmeichel would be. He'd be blaming someone else even if it was completely down to him.

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i thought exactly the same on sunday too. i try not to go down the body language analysis route, you just end up claiming that martial doesn't care because he isn't smiling, or that pogba's making it all about him because he is smiling.

but i wouldn't mind seeing a bit of anger - at himself, at other players, at the ball boy even - from ddg, this season i've only really seen it in the post-newcastle rant. on sunday he had a kind of weary resignation in his eyes, a mild sense of shame and annoyance, like someone having a good w@nk but finishing just as the video turns into a scat one.

i suspect that an amateur psychologist could very easily conclude that DDG doesn't really care that much, but then we're back in the world of smiles etc.

Don. I don't want to go down the amateur psychology route either but it's a thing I've picked up from the whole team too rather than just him. I think we have seen that they players all celebrate together when scoring (which is great and even something that the knows sourpuss Keane approves of!) however when we concede it doesn't seem a big deal. I want the players to feel violated when they concede and take it as an affront to them. A few rollockings wouldn't go amiss either even if it's just to gee up the troops.

His new contract may be seen as yet another error made from the Manutd staff.

I believe DDG has played his part for us, and it's time for a more hungry GK to step up the ranks.