David De Gea Appreciation Thread

I don't get the downplaying of his career/talent. From around 2013-2018, he was world class. He was a whisker away from joining Real Madrid, and, if he had, he would've earned it through being a great goalkeeper.

After the world cup in 2018, he definitely regressed, and I agreed with those who were saying he needed replacing back when he was still here, but that doesn't change how good he once was for us.
 
Not sure he's really that interested in playing football anymore, which is fine, he's had a great career. Won more than most players, 45 caps for Spain is plenty to be proud of.

He could play mid table for another 5 years, if the motivation isn't there then go spend time with the family and enjoy the money.
 
Devil_forever said:
But but but he’s great apparently. The guy couldn’t come off his line, command his area or save a pen to save his life. The fact that this fraud was our player of the year shows how shit we were and how fickle our dumb fans are to reflex saves. He’s the total opposite of a modern keeper and stole a living at this club.
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Impressively awful post.
 
Devil_forever said:
But but but he’s great apparently. The guy couldn’t come off his line, command his area or save a pen to save his life. The fact that this fraud was our player of the year shows how shit we were and how fickle our dumb fans are to reflex saves. He’s the total opposite of a modern keeper and stole a living at this club.
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Following swiftly on the heels of this post about Maguire in the transfer tweets thread:

Devil_forever said:
You're being very kind by calling him a good servant of the club. He came for a world record fee (one that still hasn't been broken) and stank up the place to championship levels on far far too many occasions. He will be remembered as one of our worst signings when all things are considered.
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Devil forever? Are you sure? It’s one thing to not like certain players (or to think they’re overpaid which in both cases I’d agree with) but this level of disrespect, not to mention overly negative hyperbole, for players who’ve given their all for United is mind boggling.

Dunno what job you do but you’d hope your bosses aren’t as scathing with their ‘performance review’ as you are to our players.
 
Robindinho said:
Needs to lower his demands/expectations, if he's so keen on playing again.
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He doesnt want to, because he thinks he is still great. He is waiting on a good club to offer him good wages, but that wont happen.

Dont think he is motivated to go to a smaller club on low wages or to a random league on decent wages. Sad to see, but it matches his last 5 years at United.

He can just as well retire if that is how he wants to proceed. Was a big mistake from us to give him a new contract during his massive decline. He hasnt got it, mentality as well as we can see.
 
I can’t recall when a player of De Gea’s level just sat out an entire season? Truly bizarre and sadly probably shows where his professionalism is at any real sports athlete isn’t sitting on their ass for 12 months.


He will come to regret it when he retires I bet.
 
G3079 said:
Not a notion I saw a lot outside of United, and to a lesser extent, Spanish NT fan circles. Top five, certainly. Top two, occasionally. Number one, very rarely. Usually that spot would be Buffon, Casillas (more like an early to mid '10s thing though) or Neuer.
The notion that he stole a living is utterly ridiculous of course, but I also don't see him ever having had such a high standing outside of United followership.
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There was a 5 or so year period in the middle of the decade where he probably was #2 behind Neuer. But even then, as much as I did love him, it was only because it was a very weak period for goalkeepers with the best of the previous generation retired or not as good anymore while the next generation were a few years off coming to prominence.
 
Great gk when he was at his peak. Average mentality. Never recovered from that world cup
He was too comfortable to be Man United's no 1 and didn't want to challenge for a NT spot .
 
Very bizarre state of affairs.

It's hard to believe that he's so much driven by money that he'd take a year out of football. It's a complete contradiction.

That makes me think the opposite is true, that he just wanted to remain at the top level rather than take Saudi money for example. But if he did feel that way then you'd also think it'd mean he'd identify the best club he can get and just go there.

Maybe he just fell out of love with it all and apathy set in. I shouldn't feel sorry for him, but I feel a bit sorry for him.
 
Devil_forever said:
But but but he’s great apparently. The guy couldn’t come off his line, command his area or save a pen to save his life. The fact that this fraud was our player of the year shows how shit we were and how fickle our dumb fans are to reflex saves. He’s the total opposite of a modern keeper and stole a living at this club.
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Train crash of a post.
 
Devil_forever said:
But but but he’s great apparently. The guy couldn’t come off his line, command his area or save a pen to save his life. The fact that this fraud was our player of the year shows how shit we were and how fickle our dumb fans are to reflex saves. He’s the total opposite of a modern keeper and stole a living at this club.
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I wasn’t aware young children were able to post on the caf
 
Yagami said:
I don't get the downplaying of his career/talent. From around 2013-2018, he was world class. He was a whisker away from joining Real Madrid, and, if he had, he would've earned it through being a great goalkeeper.

After the world cup in 2018, he definitely regressed, and I agreed with those who were saying he needed replacing back when he was still here, but that doesn't change how good he once was for us.
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I remember arguing on here with someone who was adamant he was never world class. Further into the debate he listed about 6 current top pundits who apparently never would have said such a thing - and the thread literally picked out videos of all of them saying he was world class..

He was undoubtedly seen as world class and top 2 in the world, if not 1st for a long spell. And it wasn't that long ago people said United would be midtable without him performing miracles.

Really is the old Batman (was it?) quote about being seen as a hero but stay too long and you'll be the villain.
 
Devil_forever said:
But but but he’s great apparently. The guy couldn’t come off his line, command his area or save a pen to save his life. The fact that this fraud was our player of the year shows how shit we were and how fickle our dumb fans are to reflex saves. He’s the total opposite of a modern keeper and stole a living at this club.
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Yes but this "modern" keeper being able to play it out wasn't a thing when his mere "reflex" saves were top in the market.
 
Devil_forever said:
But but but he’s great apparently. The guy couldn’t come off his line, command his area or save a pen to save his life. The fact that this fraud was our player of the year shows how shit we were and how fickle our dumb fans are to reflex saves. He’s the total opposite of a modern keeper and stole a living at this club.
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The “stole a living” part is the proverbial cherry on top of this poop flavored ice cream of a post.

I don’t think there’s a single goalkeeper in history with a more impressive worldie saves repertoire.
De Gea had to make more world class saves in one game against Arsenal than Peter Schmeichel or Van der Sar had to make in their entire Manchester United career.

I don’t even rate De Gea as highly as others (was never best in the world or even close to that) and we wouldn’t have been worse off with Navas instead if the Madrid transfer happened, but you’re just rewriting history to the extreme.
 
Sandikan said:
Yes but this "modern" keeper being able to play it out wasn't a thing when his mere "reflex" saves were top in the market.
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Now that's just entirely wrong. That "modern goalkeeping" had already been a thing for quite some time when de Gea came to Manchester - just not in the EPL. 2011 was the same year Neuer made the switch to Bayern, just to name the probably most prolific example of that "new", more proactive and involved keeper style. Neuer was far from the only keeper who was playing like such. And he didn't start playing like that at Bayern either, he had already done the same for years at Schalke before. 30m € was a quite outrageous sum for a BL goalkeeper at the time, so it is quite obvious that Bayern already saw the worth of his skills back then.

The EPL clubs were merely a bit late to adopt this trend. I especially remember the Caf's reactions to Neuer and similiar keepers. The way they got involved in the game, got off their line, got involved in playing the ball instead of just hoofing it, was called "suicidal" and "way too risky, sure to cost them" frequently on here. People did not believe that this would work out. The viability of Neuer's and other people's style of goalkeeping was denied for years, and that general notion here only started to change with the 2014 WC.

So yeah, when de Gea started to really show his skills in the 12/13 season that "modern" keeper totally was already "a thing" if one wasn't ignorant to what happened abroad or didn't pretend like it wasn't a viable style to interpret the position.
 
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Castia said:
I can’t recall when a player of De Gea’s level just sat out an entire season? Truly bizarre and sadly probably shows where his professionalism is at any real sports athlete isn’t sitting on their ass for 12 months.


He will come to regret it when he retires I bet.
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It’s a career killer move. This is hardly a profession where you can take sabbaticals. I guess in some ways it’s damning on us about how much we were paying him that he thought that it was a good move a year ago and could afford to do it.
 
He should have gone to Real Betis when they were sniffing around. A technically sound la liga club, pushing for the europa/cl places.
 
Lingard was getting killed for not picking a club but De Gea's ego is going under the radar. The guy wants to be number 1 at a top club when he's been out for a season and has declined massively even before that. It would be a shame to see him retire. Sometimes you need to take a step back to go forward. If he has a good season somewhere a bigger club may go for him, other players have done it. He needs someone this summer to tell him to pick a club or retire. Get in or get out.
 
Devil_forever said:
But but but he’s great apparently. The guy couldn’t come off his line, command his area or save a pen to save his life. The fact that this fraud was our player of the year shows how shit we were and how fickle our dumb fans are to reflex saves. He’s the total opposite of a modern keeper and stole a living at this club.
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I'm glad this post is getting rinsed, shit posts and posters need to bee called out before it gets any worse on here...
 
Also, if I made the sort of money he has made and had the career too... I wouldn't be that bothered about sitting a year or two out for the stars to align and to do as I please.... Ya'll are fecking weird. It's like when actors take a sabbatical I'm thinking "are these people not allowed to do something different for a while?" while those behind gritted teeth are questioning motives and throwing shade...
 
Devil_forever said:
But but but he’s great apparently. The guy couldn’t come off his line, command his area or save a pen to save his life. The fact that this fraud was our player of the year shows how shit we were and how fickle our dumb fans are to reflex saves. He’s the total opposite of a modern keeper and stole a living at this club.
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New copypasta, clown.
 
Devil_forever said:
But but but he’s great apparently. The guy couldn’t come off his line, command his area or save a pen to save his life. The fact that this fraud was our player of the year shows how shit we were and how fickle our dumb fans are to reflex saves. He’s the total opposite of a modern keeper and stole a living at this club.
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You sure you're a united fan mate? One of the worst posts I've seen here in quite some time.
 
Pickle85 said:
You sure you're a united fan mate? One of the worst posts I've seen here in quite some time.
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As much as I think Dave wasn't good enough it's certainly disappointing to see this kind of shitting on one of our former players. Especially one that was with us for so long.
 
Judas said:
Impressively awful post.
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SambaBoy said:
Train crash of a post.
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TheReligion said:
I wasn’t aware young children were able to post on the caf
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Sandikan said:
Yes but this "modern" keeper being able to play it out wasn't a thing when his mere "reflex" saves were top in the market.
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LankyHoggie said:
The “stole a living” part is the proverbial cherry on top of this poop flavored ice cream of a post.

I don’t think there’s a single goalkeeper in history with a more impressive worldie saves repertoire.
De Gea had to make more world class saves in one game against Arsenal than Peter Schmeichel or Van der Sar had to make in their entire Manchester United career.

I don’t even rate De Gea as highly as others (was never best in the world or even close to that) and we wouldn’t have been worse off with Navas instead if the Madrid transfer happened, but you’re just rewriting history to the extreme.
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afrocentricity said:
I'm glad this post is getting rinsed, shit posts and posters need to bee called out before it gets any worse on here...
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JakeC said:
New copypasta, clown.
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Pickle85 said:
You sure you're a united fan mate? One of the worst posts I've seen here in quite some time.
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Hold on a second did you all watch him and can honestly say he came off his line to claim corners? Did you think he was even a decent penalty stopper? Did you think he commanded his box? Seriously? He was one of the best reflex save keepers in the world but that was about it. The penalty shoot out in the europa could have gone on for another day and he wouldn't have got to a single one of them.

His inability to ever come out for anything was one of the reasons why our defence looked nervous whenever he was behind them. I'm not asking for peak Neuer here but feck me come off your line just once in a while David. It's funny how a keeper you all seem to rate so highly couldn't find even a top 8 team to give him a slot for a whole year?

His shot stopping shielded him from the criticism the rest of his game rightfully deserved. His wages for a keeper of his all round ability were obscene. Oh and he tried to run down his contract and go to madrid. Don't let any of that stop you.

This team has been a shit show for over a decade and yet you have top reds jumping on fans for being critical, there's a reason why Madrid are as successful as they are, their fans don't tolerate dips in form, let alone years of below average shite. This is a fan base that gave Gareth Bale a hard time, our fans are out here defending players like Maguire and De Gea.
 
Devil_forever said:
Hold on a second did you all watch him and can honestly say he came off his line to claim corners? Did you think he was even a decent penalty stopper? Did you think he commanded his box? Seriously? He was one of the best reflex save keepers in the world but that was about it. The penalty shoot out in the europa could have gone on for another day and he wouldn't have got to a single one of them.

His inability to ever come out for anything was one of the reasons why our defence looked nervous whenever he was behind them. I'm not asking for peak Neuer here but feck me come off your line just once in a while David. It's funny how a keeper you all seem to rate so highly couldn't find even a top 8 team to give him a slot for a whole year?

His shot stopping shielded him from the criticism the rest of his game rightfully deserved. His wages for a keeper of his all round ability were obscene. Oh and he tried to run down his contract and go to madrid. Don't let any of that stop you.

This team has been a shit show for over a decade and yet you have top reds jumping on fans for being critical, there's a reason why Madrid are as successful as they are, their fans don't tolerate dips in form, let alone years of below average shite. This is a fan base that gave Gareth Bale a hard time, our fans are out here defending players like Maguire and De Gea.
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Read the room!

Instead of doubling down on this drivel
 
Withnail said:
They've probably gone too far with the stealing a living line but they're not exactly wrong.

Great shot stopper but he was never great at any of the other aspects of the rule which are arguably more important in the modern game.
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It's more the tone of the post, the abusive nature of it, the fraud line shite, more so than his points about him as a player. There's ways of going about it, without coming across like an angry teenager on twitter.
 
De Gea only saves with his right hand and two legs. His other body parts is for show only.
 
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