How is it poor management? Onana cost us the game against Lyon and Amorim as dropped him for this game so he’s aware he needs to up his performances and isn’t given game time just because he was bought for so much.
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 45
- Clean sheets
- 10
- Goals
- 0
- Assists
- 0
- Yellow cards
- 1
How to do ‘ease a keeper in’? Amorim is dealing with this fine.
I think that’s the media narrative to reduce pressure on everyone. If Bayindir plays well he has to play against Lyon.
Diogo Costa should be number 1 target to replace him
It does amaze me the money we've spent over the years and we have to choose between Bayinder/Onana and Hojlund/Zirzkee in arguably the 2 most important positions on the pitch. I'd love to see a top goalkeeper and striker signed in the summer.
that went wellHis wife being robbed is horrible and may indeed contribute to him currently being in a bad headspace.
But from a strictly football POV, we haven't seen anything from Onana that we haven't seen in previous weeks he's been here, so I doubt it impacted his performance.
Would rather play Hojlund in goal and put Onana up front than have either play in their natural positions.
Remember when our second, and even third choice, keeper would walk into most team's starting line up? We've fallen so far.
Remember when our second, and even third choice, keeper would walk into most team's starting line up? We've fallen so far.
Ya I fully expect to be back in goal Thursday
"New signing"? Bayindir has been at the club for almost two whole seasons. If he's not "settled" by now, he never will be. What's telling is that neither Ten Hag nor Amorim have trusted him enough to give him even a single league appearance before now, despite Onana's erratic form. And in many ways that's fine. He was signed as a cheap backup keeper. A body to sit on the bench because the only other option was 83 year old Tom Heaton. There's no reason to have unrealistic expectations of him based on half a decent game against Arsenal.
Yeah sadly these mistakes he's been making are nothing new. If anything, its more surprising when he has a good match without any mistakes.
Good for him to get 24 hour security after all the robberies at his house that constantly mess up with his head.
Well, he’ll be back on the team sheet against Lyon. I hope Bayindir has a blinder and stakes his claim against Newcastle.
He isn't a good goalkeeper because his technique is off and he isn't athletic and fast enough.
He needs to be sold this summer. Absolutely has to be moved on.
He needs to be sold this summer. Absolutely has to be moved on.
It sounds good but there is doubt about absolutely fecking everything in life so it doesn’t really go down as a “words to live by”
Why did we sell Henderson if they knew they'd be letting De Gea go the next year? I dont understand the decision making at this club.
He is far from error free...but would be an upgrade.
They should be blooding some of these promising academy keepers, see if the future could well bode well with Radek Vítek (currently out on loan in Austria), Elyh Harrison, Hubert Graczyk or Dermot Mee betwix the stix.
Verbruggen looks good.
Maybe just play him after the injury? Before Onana made more mistakes we all saw coming.
He’s waiting for one of the hardest remaining games where on the balance of probabilities he concedes more than once today.
There was no logical reason to wait until today imo, Onana should’ve been dropped long ago. The moment Bayindir was fit the decision should’ve been made.
Doesn’t Onana put Vaseline on his gloves before a game? Surely this is part of the problem for not having decent handling. Why are the coaches allowing this
That's not my point. My point is as an outfield player, when you feel like you've done your job (and the players did, against Lyon imo), if you see your goalkeeper making silly mistakes (after mouthing off pre-match), you're bound to be annoyed.
Loved the guy, really wanted him to succeed here — especially as a fellow African. But man, he’s let me down too many times. Half the time, it feels like his head’s just not in the game. He looks genuinely surprised when something happens around him, like he’s lagging a few seconds behind the moment — and by then, it’s too late. We concede.
At this point, I think it’s unfair to him and the team to keep throwing him out there. Let him take that early holiday or sit on the bench till the season’s done. No shame in stepping back when it’s not working.
At this point, I think it’s unfair to him and the team to keep throwing him out there. Let him take that early holiday or sit on the bench till the season’s done. No shame in stepping back when it’s not working.
A lot of keepers do this. What an ignorant post.
Most keepers are head cases tbf.
Henderson wasn't going to wait any longer as he wanted (quite rightfully) to be first choice so he could play games. We either played him or let him go. He was also barely any better than De Gea with the ball at his feet, so that's not what we wanted.
We also didn't 'know' we were going to let De Gea go at that stage. Hell, we offered him a new contract midway through 22/23 which he refused to make a decision on until right near the end of the season, by which time we'd changed our mind and took it off the table. So it was only near the end of De Gea's last season that we knew.
There were also rumours that Henderson was one of the ones feeding leaks to the media, although I will stress that 'rumours' doesn't mean it was actually happening.
A lot of keepers don’t palm the ball straight into the opposition attackers. Or a lot of keepers can handle a ball. A lot of keepers can also play with their feet.
They didn't know they'd be letting De Gea go the next year.
In fact they didn't know they'd be letting De Gea go even months before they let De Gea go, because they initially offered De Gea a new contract. There was a lack of planning and clarity about what they wanted to do.
He's only been back for three games. Those three games being Forest, City and Lyon. This Newcastle game is arguably the easiest and least consequential of them.
What a stupid reply. Next up: Onana wearing gloves must be the problem.
Henderson is bang average, anyway.
Onana is by no means the answer, but de Gea, who went an entire season without a club, and Henderson neither were.
Disagree. This is probably the hardest of them 3. Forest aren’t that great just having a great season and they didn’t trouble us at all. City are very poor this season and again rarely troubled us. Lyon wouldn’t have came out of the game with a draw if we had a different keeper in goal as them 2 goals they scored was avoidable. Newcastle are different beast when at home in front of there crowd.
Onana being in goal is the problem. End of
Homegrown player. Pure profit.
Yeah, I don't understand people pining for past players as much as they do on the caf.
We've got a City/Claudio Bravo situation unfortunately, and it's shit, but bringing back Joe Hart clearly wasn't the answer for them and bringing back any of our old keepers isn't the answer for us.
Yeah. Not vaseline on his gloves, which was what your post further up was saying.
I’m just questioning whether that is meant to help the grip of goalkeepers or not? Because it certainly doesn’t help ours. Everything bounces out of his hands
I think it just adds a little bit of adhesiveness to the gloves and repels water in damp conditions. Plenty of keepers up to and including Neuer have been seen using it:
Onana's issues are down to basic technique and decision making, but just because he's been poor doesn't mean that every little thing he does must automatically be wrong. It's like saying our attackers must be tying their laces the wrong way because they're not scoring.
Yeah it's frustrating for sure, but the point him not running as much was weird.
It's supposed to help with grip in wet weather and maybe stop gloves from becoming too saturated. Someone mentioned it to me a while back and I laughed at the idea, just bring a fecking towel or wear gloves designed to work better in the wet.
Agreed