Fully agree the joy some take in him not getting another club instantly is just bizarre. But I suppose blaming the players for the boards incompetence is their level of brain function.
David de Gea has left Manchester United
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I agree with that view. He was never a good fit for us. And by that I mean that he wasn't good for a team that must be offensive and look for wins.
He was always a defensive keeper and that's not or shouldn't be us.
Yeah, I would be happy to see these haters prove they have always held this view when he was saving us points week in week out
No, but some claim him as a savior and the reality is that he only was another part of a shit mix that needed a full replacement.
He absolutely did not need replaced back then
Don't put it past them. If you're an idiot and think an obviously excellent player is shit, you can just keep saying it over and over again. Eventually they'll decline and you can say "see, I was right". Time catches up to a broken clock eventually.
Surely you've better things to be using the limited post allowance on than this ffs.
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And for this, I thank you.
Oh well, I don't see many surprised faces after reading those news.
It comes to tell you how quickly he's fallen. People tend to remember his blunders rather than his world class saves. And in recent years, especially last season, his blunders seem to be on the same number as his WC saves.
And he's quite consistent with his goal leading errors, so whoever gets him, knows their defense will ship in a few goals thanks to Dave.
What new defence? And one new attacking midfielder is a whole new midfield?
We will find out if we are able to play dominating attacking football and be able to defend while doing it. Something that we have never managed to achieve while De Gea was number one. There was a small period we achieved it quite well under Ole, but that was with Henderson in nets not De Gea.
Last season we defended well for the most part but we scored few of the back of it. If we defend well and score lots consistently and look like a side able to consistently dominate in games. Then we will see.
It's not been a quick fall from grace
He's not been rated particularly highly in Spain, or outside of United in general for a very long time
If you consider 4-5 years quickly then yes, he's fallen fast.
He hasn't been a top keeper for a long long time now. The fact he used to be really good doesn't matters now you're just as good as your last games.
Football has evolved beyond him and he hasn’t adapted. As soon as Ederson and Alisson came into English football, he really paled in comparison. It says a lot that Real won’t even take him on a free and would rather spend money getting Kepa Arrizabalaga.
Ironically I have a Liverpool mate who upon Liverpool buying Alisson back in 2018, hoped would be their DDG.
Ironically I have a Liverpool mate who upon Liverpool buying Alisson back in 2018, hoped would be their DDG.
He'd do well for a club a level below the top. He may as well try and cash in at a Saudi one though if he's no chance of winning anything. I'd be surprised if none were interested.
He’d be a big coup for saudi league even at this point in his career. He should go there.
To the majority of his career. We've moved on from maguire Lindelof Fred and mct and we played good football last season and they won the golden glove (yes they, it's a team game)
An improvement had already begun by ripping out the core in MF and defense. This will be another step in the right direction but you'll not be able to pin it all on DDG leaving because ETH has already gutted the rest of the team
I really think he should go to Saudi and cash in. Always nice to have more money.
I’ve always been a huge fan of DDG but the fact that he hasn’t been snapped up on a free transfer speaks volumes about his current level.
Indeed. Madrid lost Courtois and you'd think a Spanish GK on a free would be an appealing stop gap measure from them but he get's barely mentioned.
I have not been a fan for the last 2 seasons, but to be honest it's quite sad to watch all of this.
I wonder if he actually thought he can do better than United. The contract was on the table for a while if I got the reports right.
Has to be his wages. He’s good enough for the bottom half of the PL, he’s probably just asking insane money.
I agree. Unfortunately, at even a quarter of what he was previously making he'd probably still be pricing himself out of a move to a La Liga / bottom half PL side.
Just a bunch of angry nobodies, when your fan base is as big as United's you're bound to have a ton of losers in the mix.
Haven’t been following but he’s still without a club? 
Haven’t been following but he’s still without a club?
I like David but I think he's not seen, rightly, as an elite GK anymore.
If he wants to start, he'll probably need to lower wage demands a lot and accept to go in a lesser club.
I could see his experience being very valuable as a backup, playing mentor. But I don't know he resigned to be a #2.
Seasons not started for us yet so they haven't got their teeth into their next target.
Rest assured, they'll have their next victim soon.
I think he really should move to Saudi and get himself a nice pay. The way football has evolved and the way his reflexes had decreased means he is no longer a GK fit for a top team. So it’s either Saudi or a mid table team in the top four leagues with a much lesser pay to which he was accustomed to.
Does the Saudi league even want him?
His performances last year were poor, and he isn't really at the level for where teams are looking for a ball playing goalkeeper.
Same for McTom.
Wonder if any here supporting de Gea are slagging off McTom in his transfer thread?
The only one here who makes sense.
Same for McTom.
Wonder if any here supporting de Gea are slagging off McTom in his transfer thread?
Not me. I like McT and think if he was playing at another club, like a West Ham or similar he would be highly rated.
Well at least with the money he has got with us (350k per week), he should be able to retire early....
I think real losers are De Gea's supporters who prevented the club from moving forward. But to each their own.
This. His best attribute (reflexes) will only deteriorate even more with age and time.GKs who played on top level till their late 30s are the ones who never fully reliant on the reflexes/shot stopping. He literally has 0 command in the box and cant play with his feet to save his own life so its hard to see any decent midtable club sign him as their first choice GK. The VDS comparison doesnt make any sense since VDS was never reflex type GK
Yeah, he is on a free, and not even good clubs are looking to add him. Experience does not count for much when you are bang average. All top clubs in Europe have better first choice keepers. Most midtable clubs in the top 5 leagues have better allround keepers. I would be shocked if even a midtable club in a top league would offer him the starting spot. He is past his best and his skillset is not suited to modern football. Only way is downhill, as keepers dont tend to improve reflexes as they age.
I can't see him moving to Saudi Arabia. He's just gotten married, has a very young daughter and for the first time in a long time is free to live back in Spain with them and enjoy his family life. His (now) wife never moved to England because she's a celebrity in Spain and would have had to abandon her own career, so I doubt she'll be moving there or anywhere else. It'd be a tough decision to move away from his family again, especially given anywhere he goes now is likely to be a big step down career-wise. The man must already have enough money to be set for life after being paid £20m a year for the past six years.
No at the end of the day it's just football and as much as a people like to shit on him he still accomplished more in his trade than any of the buffoons still slating him on here.
He was a fantastic servant and we have a fantastic new keeper, let it go it's pathetic.
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