David De Gea - is he good enough?

Thing is we came from having a 37 year old calm and consistent keeper who saved virtually everything to a 20 year old with a tendency to flap. As I said we are a club big and rich enough to simply buy a good keeper now rather than choring away to develop one.
 
The Running Man said:
Thing is we came from having a 37 year old calm and consistent keeper who saved virtually everything to a 20 year old with a tendency to flap. As I said we are a club big and rich enough to simply buy a good keeper now rather than choring away to develop one.
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This was my biggest question when they signed him.... What was he? £20m? for a 20 year old.

I always thought Handanovic was worth a shout.
 
The Running Man said:
There were numerous keepers around including that skelenberg who was half price. Yet people said I was mad for even suggesting that due gea was 'unproven'...
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No you're mad because even with his inexperience De Gea is a far better keeper than Stekelenburg. The keeper you're talking about isn't available, a top class goalkeeper in his prime isn't out there, you either sign an average steady eddy or you sign someone with the potential to be top class, when Chelsea signed Cech they were signing someone with potential, when Liverpool signed Reina they were signing someone with potential, when City decided to drop Given and play Hart they were playing someone with potential
 
The Running Man said:
Thing is we came from having a 37 year old calm and consistent keeper who saved virtually everything to a 20 year old with a tendency to flap. As I said we are a club big and rich enough to simply buy a good keeper now rather than choring away to develop one.
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Who would we have bought? All keepers make mistakes and I can't think of anyone out there that could have come in and immediately settled. If you have suggestions, I'm all ears.

Edit: Stekelenburg? You mean the guy who has been dropped by Roma for their youth keeper after a string of crap performances? Right.

cm1179 said:
so 'red nev' is the greatest football pundit/journalist EVA to united fans .... when he's telling you what you want to hear?
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Where has anyone said that? I think you'll find most people like Neville because he articulates and supports his points well, not because they agree with everything he says.
 
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Lloris should have saved RVP's header!

Let's get this witch hunt started!

It's stupid, I bet if we look back, Schmeichel and Van Der Sar all made similar mistakes.

My problem is with the defence and midfield, far too often we've let teams pressurize us for sustained periods by being cautious and defensive. the best form of defence is a good offence, too often ***** Fergie tactics have cost us this season with negativity.

Both against Liverpool and Spurs he made the same tactical errors, it almost cost us against Liverpool, and it certainly did with Spurs.

I remember when we used to play our football and let other teams attempt to adapt to our play, not the other way round.
 
I don't understand why so many people go on about him. I'd say he's at the same level as the best young goalkeepers in the world. I'd actually put him and Szczesny at about the same level.
 
At the end of the day our strike force cost more than the Tottenham squad (or there about) I going to change tack to a stinging attack on our manager for buying the wrong players or fieldibg a team that inept that we were ultimately out 'chanced' by spurs and as per the west ham game, we were literally clinging on at the end.

I don't blame de gea for Sunday. I blame fergie.
 
shipinabottle said:
My problem is with the defence and midfield, far too often we've let teams pressurize us for sustained periods by being cautious and defensive. the best form of defence is a good offence, too often ***** Fergie tactics have cost us this season with negativity.
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Negative tactics have cost us far too often this season? We've lost 3 important games all season, 4 if you include the Carling Cup tie when Fergie's hands were tied due to availability of players so to say tactics have cost us far too often is a load of rubbish....

As for the tactics against Spurs up until 30 seconds from full time those tactics had worked, Spurs had only played their way through the defence twice (one of which was due to an error by Evra leaving the rest of the defence exposed) and those tactics were the exact same ones we used last season in the same fixture but as we were clinical with out finishing last season we walked away with a 1-3 win rather than a 1-1 draw.

I can appreciate people might not like the whole setup to soak up pressure and then counter attack rather than just go out and blitz the opposition away but given the results I find it hard to argue with how the manager has setup his teams this season. AFAIK we've never before gone to Liverpool, gone to Chelsea, gone to City, played Liverpool & Arsenal at home and won all 5 games, if come the end of the season we've managed to do the double over all those 4 teams it'll have been an amazing effort by the side
 
Purdy said:
Every player let alone keeper has a mistake in them, it is just more highlighted as a goalie, none are mistake free ever, De Gea is hardly much more prone than a lot just plays for the biggest team in the country and is foreign.
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Nah, De Gea is at manyoo, it's joe Hart at Man City ;)
 
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