lex talionis
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This is where I'm at.
Yes we need a better overall footballer, but not with a significant downgrade in actual ability to keep the ball out the net.
This is a key point that the "modern goalkeeper" fanbois club keep overlooking. You can spray the ball with inch-perfect passes all day long, but if you're not at De Gea's level as a shot-stopper it would be pretty fukking daft to go for that keeper.
The right answer is to keep De Gea but bring in a youngish keeper who will develop under De Gea with strategically limited appearances and in 2-3 years will succeed De Gea. Say someone like the keeper Dean Henderson should have been but without being a head case.