Where Exactly will Man Utd be league position wise after all these years without De Gea?
Long may he continue between the sticks
Replace him with who exactly??
Well, nobody can really answer that but the one time when he was officially dropped, which was last season, every single element of the team improved.
We won more games, we scored more goals and we conceded less goals.
I'm not saying that Henderson is the answer because I haven't seen enough of him to judge, but I am saying that a more proactive goalkeeper would help the team overall, even if they weren't as good of a shot stopper.
What happened when Henderson played last season backs this theory up, as does what happened with Spain before and after De Gea was their number one.
They basically went from being the dominant force in international football before De Gea to being absolute garbage while he was their number one.
Now they've dropped him for Unai Simon, they're up there as one of the top sides in the world again, coincidence? In my opinion, absolutely not.
I'll repeat again, there's more to goal-keeping than shot stopping, it's that simple.