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2024-25 Performances

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5.7 Season Average Rating
Appearances
34
Clean sheets
8
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0
Assists
0
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Something I've noticed time and time again (aside from the parrying into the path of danger) is that Onana often makes "athletic"-looking saves where he ends up jumping or moving off a balanced, planted base of two feet on the ground. He ends up on the floor, needing to spend time getting back up which makes him even slower to the second ball that he's parried in play.

Against Palace, for their first goal, he ended up on the floor after jumping to try to tip the ball over the crossbar, misses the tip-over, ends up on the floor, and Palace have a tap in. At the time, I thought it was a harsh take for him to have lost balance for that tip-over attempt, but seeing Everton's second goal today it strengthens my view of Onana's propensity to go to ground after attempting a save or parry. Harrison's initial attempt on goal was close to Onana's body, with no need to jump at it for the save, but his poor balance means he goes to ground with a drastically reduced chance of recovering the second ball which Doucoure nods in. If Onana had better balance and could stay on his feet, he would have plucked the second ball out of the air before Doucoure could get his head on it.

I'm getting tired of his overall lack of quality and would warmly welcome Bayindir to start for an extended period when he's back from injury.
 
Like I said before, he is a taller version of Barthez. Unfortunatly for a GK he is also a confidence player and usually plays well when team plays good and vice versa.
 
Big Ben Foster said:
No, we pushed DDG out because his time was up. Two completely separate decisions.

There are more than two keepers in football.
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We chose Onana because of his ball playing ability. Unfortunately he is poor at that anyway while also being vastly worse at shot stopping.

Currently DDG is a better keeper.
 
Ace of Spades said:
We chose Onana because of his ball playing ability. Unfortunately he is poor at that anyway while also being vastly worse at shot stopping.

Currently DDG is a better keeper.
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Yes, like I said signing Onana was a very poor decision which goes back to the boneheaded idea of giving ETH carte blanche to sign his mates.

Doesn't change the fact that DDG's time was up at the club, although I'm glad he's now enjoying bit of a career renaissance after several poor seasons.
 
De Gea comments are so bizarre, he was also terrible towards the end of his time and would poo his pants every time he would have to use his feet. Onana needs to go, but keeping De Gea would have been just as bad (maybe worse)
 
Cee90 said:
Perhaps, but he’s from the same school of chaotic goalkeeping.
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No.

You had a "past it" version of him. I saw him play at Marseille and Monaco.

Barthez was one of the best goalkeepers in the world in his prime, in a stacked era, and a fantastic shot stopper despite his lack of height.

Onana is nowhere near his level and never will.
 
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He can't even do the basics of what a Sunday league goalkeeper can do. That shot at the end that nearly resulted in a penalty has to be pushed out to the corner. How a premier league goalkeeper for the last two weeks keeps pushing the ball right back into the danger zone is a major concern.
 
That_Bloke said:
No.

You had a "past it" version of him. I saw him play at Marseilles and Monaco.

Barthez was one of the best goalkeepers in the world in his prime and a fantastic shot stopper, despite his lack of height.

Onana is nowhere near his level and never will.
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Ok, sorry.
 
Rossa said:
He had time to take three steps backwards. He had time to take one step forward and easily catch the ball. Crap from Maguire and awful from Onana.

Defending that shot that could have led to a penalty also?
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He can't get his feet in a position to make that jump. The keeper makes the save and the defenders should then be clearing it.
 
I think we are stuck with him for obvious reasons but we should get a number 2 that can compete with him.
 
The amount of mistakes we've made with transfers over the last few years has been genuinely diabolical. It's no surprise we're in the state we're in, when recruitment has been so bad.
 
Just watched the highlights of the game - he had some decent reflex saves but the amount of times he parried the ball back into the danger area is unacceptable.
 
Similarly to many of our players, he is just too inconsistent. He can make some fantastic saves, and can be an excellent passer at times, but then there are howlers and frequent mistakes like these.. needs upgrading, unfortunately.
 
erikcred said:
He is the number 2. We need a starter.
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Yes. I think we should be in the market this summer for a cheap, reliable transitional keeper who can get us through the next few seasons as we clean up our finances and other parts of the squad. I wouldn't break the bank on a big keeper signing until after that.
 
When a manager decides to buy a goalkeeper for his passing skills rather than his goalkeeping skills ( even setting aside the fact his vaunted passing has done bugger all to help) he should never be allowed an opinion in the transfer market again
 
lex talionis said:
I commit to doing so. Was that the goal where he made a save, then was unable to deal with the second shot?
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Where he palmed a shot straight at him up in the air, needlessly, and then rather than catch the falling ball he backed up and fell over under no pressure.
 
sebsheep said:
He can't get his feet in a position to make that jump. The keeper makes the save and the defenders should then be clearing it.
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Wow. No, he definitely could have. He was able to take three steps backwards, so one forward and a jump is doable.

And his ridiculous parries into dangerous areas are costing us almost on a weekly basis.

He’s a calamity. He had some decent moments where he more or less made me think again and decide he was good enough. Unfortunately, that was merely a purple patch.

If you think he’s good enough then by all means; you are still wrong.
 
That_Bloke said:
No.

You had a "past it" version of him. I saw him play at Marseille and Monaco.

Barthez was one of the best goalkeepers in the world in his prime, in a stacked era, and a fantastic shot stopper despite his lack of height.

Onana is nowhere near his level and never will.
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I really dont understand the hate for Barthez.

He was nowhere near as bad for us as people seem to make him out here.
 
LukeChadwick36 said:
I really dont understand the hate for Barthez.

He was nowhere near as bad for us as people seem to make him out here.
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IIRC he was great his first season and poor after that, but gets remembered primarily for the poor moments. Similar situation with Howard as well.
 
I like my keepers like my defenders. I like them to be able to do the basics to a really good level and be courageous. Being a ball player should be secondary.
Onana is not a good keeper despite how many purple patches he might have which deludes some.
 
He’s just isn’t very good and never has been that good. If we’d pay what he was worth which was 20m it wouldn’t be a big deal but because we paid over double that it’s a big problem.

Given all the other issues I don’t know what the answer is, can’t afford another expensive keeper but the thought of another season with him as number one is a bit of a nightmare.
 
Rossa said:
Wow. No, he definitely could have. He was able to take three steps backwards, so one forward and a jump is doable.

And his ridiculous parries into dangerous areas are costing us almost on a weekly basis.

He’s a calamity. He had some decent moments where he more or less made me think again and decide he was good enough. Unfortunately, that was merely a purple patch.

If you think he’s good enough then by all means; you are still wrong.
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Two of those steps are him trying to regain balance, his last step is the only where he could've made that decision and stepping forward would've been the wrong one.

Whether or not he's good enough doesn't change whether or not he was at fault for the goal.
 
Big Ben Foster said:
There are plenty of fans who want to do the same thing this summer, and give Amorim carte blanche to bring in his old Portuguese league mates, so clearly we don't learn our lessons easily.
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Yeah true. Need to try the radical idea of buying in good players who could play in multiple different systems if they had to.
 
Can’t believe we bought this guy in for 50m! Don’t know why he can’t just stop a shot with the ball going sideways. It always drops back into the penalty area.

And unfortunately, we have seen nothing of his ball playing ability in 2 seasons now.
 
He pushes any half decent shot on target right back into the centre of the penalty area, he doesn't come to collect any crosses or corners, if he gets the ball to his feet he just hoofs it aimlessly and he's prone to inexplicable errors on a regular basis.

He's absolutely awful and yet another of ETH's disaster signings. We'll be counting the cost of ETH for fecking years and years to come.
 
He has a DDG-esque tendency to not command his box, his parries are always into danger areas, and he is inconsistent at shot stopping. I am convicted that he doesn't have a future here. Perhaps we can't do it in the next couple of transfer windows, but he will continue to keep costing us goals till the very end. What a poor signing.
 
sebsheep said:
Two of those steps are him trying to regain balance, his last step is the only where he could've made that decision and stepping forward would've been the wrong one.

Whether or not he's good enough doesn't change whether or not he was at fault for the goal.
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Firstly, the save was another questionable parry. Seondly, he needs to get up quicker and be more proactive.

Still, do you think he’s good enough?

What do you make of the save before the penalty incident?
 
I genuinely think he’s thick as shit and has absolutely nil awareness of danger.

Every time the ball is at his feet I am naturally predicting him to feck it up and gift the opposition a goal.
 
I think ultimately, a really good keeper wins you points when you don't deserve to win...Onana does the opposite and actually costs you points.

If Amorim has a really good keeper, we'd have picked up a fair few more points IMO and the pressure would be far less. He's simply nowhere near good enough.
 
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