This. I dread to think where we'd have been without de Gea over the years.
De Gea post-season interview: "Ones who want to stay, stay at the club. Ones that don't want to stay go out. You don't have to stay here."
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I like what I’m hearing from Dave here.
Don't think Kepa has played a game for the Spanish NT since 2017.
Have you? Can understand hearing the bad season and lookign foward to a new manager as been plenty of both....but I havent seen him criticising the attitude or desires of team mates, that is very damning, there is quite obviously a rotten core within this squad needs removing that are not happy here
Doesn't really negate what @Tom Van Persie said: he's the only one (and Phil Jones!) who knows what winning the league with Manchester United feels like.
Yup, yet got relegated.He conceded fewer goals than Dave in a relegated team
Sometimes stats hide what's really going on.
Feck me,
Another one
Another one of them annoying feckers with functioning eyes, yeah.
DDGs comments tell us how split the squad is and how out of control management are to allow these comments.
Where does he need to go to?
Oh come on, has he had bad periods, yes one really long bad period, has he made msitakes....of course, he is a keeper, is he maybe a bit passive within the modern games, maybe but how many keepers are there that really are great with the ball at there feet.
He isnt Van der Sar and is certainly not Schmeichel, but within a poor decade at the club he has been player of the season several times and our best player. He has been over taken the last few years by a few keepers both within our league and Europe and for his country, but this is a world class player and still one of the best of the world, I find the criticism of DeGea ludicrous, especially embarrassing and in no way objective or constructive criticism of him like yours.
There are several who deserve this kind of criticism in the squad, there are loads worthy of constructive criticism, De Gea is one of less than a handful that deserces neither whether or not you would prefer a more modern keeper....easy to forget some of the struggles we have had with keepers liek Barthez, Bosnich, Foster for example, DeGea has been one of the best keepers we have ever had
Unfortunately, it's not a myth. A goalkeeper needs to do more than make saves. The better keepers in the league have much better all around games than De Gea. He is part of the reason why our defence looks poor. His passive keeping puts pressure on everybody else. I'm not saying he is the main or only problem. He is just part of it.
Who cares if we're in the conference league? 6th or 7th is complete shit. It makes no difference. I agree that if players want to leave, they should leave. What I laugh at is him saying that he's proud of the season he's had. He said that the other day. He's conceded 57 goals
Weasel? Come come, he was super professional about it all despite it obviously being a dream move for him. At the time he was performing way way above everyone else in our team and we were going nowhere.
UtdDistrct is a disgrace for writing that
De Gea ….of course his £375,000 per week salary has nothing to do with him wanting to stay
What stats?
Are you saying Dave had a good season and he’s not responsible for our defensive issues? I’d say there are plenty of questions to be asked about not commanding his area and his distribution. He’ll need to really kick in with the coaches next season, as Ten Hag will ask an awful lot from him.
If we sell Henderson I definitely would like to sign Pope as back up/ contender for No. 1 spot. His stats look very impressive.He conceded fewer goals than Dave in a relegated team
vs De Gea
At the time he was on the bench because the manager thought that he wasn't in the right state of mind. I won't say that he wasn't professional but he was literally not performing.
I think he’s trying to say it’s a sports team - team sport.
Probably the only player we've had since then that we can comfortably say "it would have been a hell of a lot worse with him"
True, but if the comment implies that De Gea is important to keep because he has won the league before, then I disagree with that comment. De Gea is nowhere near good enough. What he won almost ten years ago is irrelevant when he now doesn't meet the requirements of a title winning keeper. Too many weaknesses in his game for me.
It's a direct quote of what he said.
This guy is delusional. He's the best paid goalkeeper in world football and still has massive holes in his game. Blames everybody around him and refuses to look at his own game.
Yeah, I remember. But there was no talk from his agent or damaging quotes from him, if I recall. Unlike so many of the cnuts in our team now and previously.
Mind, I don't think he's good enough. But that's another matter.
Maybe he's not quite unprofessional but De Gea is as much of a chancer as most of the underperformers in this team. He's lucky the shitshow around him is so bad it will inevitably deflect some of the negative attention away from himself. Some elements of his game are embarrassingly bad.
There isn't one player who escapes from this season without some stink on them and that certainly includes De Gea.
oh dear de gea, oh dearI think he said "but this is a sports team, it's a team sport so it doesn't matter what I did". Not "it's a poor team so it doesn't matter what I did".
He said "dis is sports team" not poor team
edit: possibly an honest mistake, given how so many other people also thought that
That's what he said, he didn't just try.
The better all round goalkeeper got relegated today,Unfortunately, it's not a myth. A goalkeeper needs to do more than make saves. The better keepers in the league have much better all around games than De Gea. He is part of the reason why our defence looks poor. His passive keeping puts pressure on everybody else. I'm not saying he is the main or only problem. He is just part of it.
Who cares if we're in the conference league? 6th or 7th is complete shit. It makes no difference. I agree that if players want to leave, they should leave. What I laugh at is him saying that he's proud of the season he's had. He said that the other day. He's conceded 57 goals
It goes a lot deeper my friend,
Just wish people would actually see that rather than be reactive to everything they read.
I think the extreme lack of self-awareness in a lot of our players is an actual issue.
I don't get all this hate for him. At least he's just coming out and saying how he sees it.
Maybe we could do better but GK is about the only area of the pitch we don't need to address this close season.
Maybe we could do better but GK is about the only area of the pitch we don't need to address this close season.
Nonsense, you just have to be part of a winning team and whatever the keepers strengths are become ampli0fied.
This guy is delusional. He's the best paid goalkeeper in world football and still has massive holes in his game. Blames everybody around him and refuses to look at his own game.
Ederson doesn't make a save yet hes the perfect keeper because he can kick a ball.
Allison has a mistake in him, doesn't really stand out with his feet but is suddenly the best 1v1 keeper in the world so the defence leaving him exposed is somehow part of the master plan.
Put DDG is a functioning team and all of a sudden his flaws are diminished
Yeah, I think so too.
Sounded very much like ‘poor team’ to me and his English is very good.