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No, you're absolutely bang on mate. There's a serious lack of candidates. I couldn't give you a name to be honest. Possibly Bruno or Fred, but I'm not sold on that either. Maybe a future signing, but I don't really think that signing a player and immediately making him captain is the right way to go either.
What’d he say?
Ah, maybe not all that exciting but just once again very direct and honest about how bad the team were.
If De Gea retired tomorrow, wouldn’t United actually be better off? It would free up £300k per week in wages, force us to play with a more modern goalkeeper in Henderson and finally force us to discover whether he can actually be the man for United. We have Heaton as backup and good prospects in the youth setup.
Henderson is not a modern keeper though, even though he's better at it than De Gea. So you have a slightly better but still insufficient ball-playing/sweeping stuff without De Gea's genius shot-stopping ability that finally since to be back — we're not going to be better off in that case. If we were to sign a proper sweeper-keeper though...
There's no way we should be renewing his contract. With one year left it's not even that big a deal if Ten Hag decides to start Henderson and leave his £375k a week on the bench.
One of the worst aspects of De Gea this season is his “fronting up” in press conferences after showing no leadership or tenacity on the field.
Virtually any other keeper is more rounded and/or modern than De Gea though…
His form is top notch and he hasnt cost us anything. This place is weird. We barely created against a team which was beaten by Burnley in midweek and this place is complaining about GK.
I'm not talking about him as a leader but any player prepared to call out his team mates and at least take responsibility for the performances shouldn't be shot down because he isn't vocal on the pitch. Like I said. He has his faults but at this moment in time he's about number 11 on the list of players that i wouldn't have a problem replacing. This season he's the only player who can hold his head relatively high and say he's done what he's being paid to do.
The club appeared to have wanted a cheerleader, not an actual leader. De Gea also is one of the few in the squad who has won things, include the league. It is just odd that Maguire was appointed as the captain, just months into United days. I wonder whether it was Maguire's association with Phelan that influenced this appointment.
It was what you have said. Ole who needs trophies Solskjaer wanted good mood and no pressure in the changing room. De Gea didn't fit into that mentality.
Second quietest. AWB will forever take that title and is probably the quietest player I've ever seen on a football pitch. I honestly don't know if I've ever seen him say a word outside that one interview he did a year or so ago.
How do we know that? I hear that often (same as how Henderson is vocal)
Because believe it or not - and this really isn't rocket science - some of us actually go and watch them week in week out and see what is actually happening rather than the snippets they show on tv. And De Gea is a complete mute so if you're seeing him talking it's probably to himself. I genuinely can't remember another goalkeeper coming to OT be as quiet as him, it's freakish. And to be fair Henderson is loud, as you brought it up. Always has been, I saw him a few times at Shrewsbury years back and he was very loud even then.
