De Gea Replacement

Who is your preferred replacement for De Gea?

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How much do you think he would go for?

Goalkeeper is a hard position to predict in terms of transfer fee, but at his age and given his quality already surely it would have to be a fortune, although maybe the contract situation will affect that.
 
Feck long term I'd say. Just get the best keeper on the market who could give us around 4 years.

It's not as if long term will have gone down well by getting De Gea if he leaves before he's even 25.
 
Dion said:
1) Valdes was never world class
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Wrong. He was immense in his final 1.5 - 2 years with Barca. Not sure how he'd deal with the physicality of the EPL (DDG also struggled initially), but at his role in the Barca set up, he was world class. Especially shot stopping :drool:
Dion said:
2) Even if he was, highly unlikely he would be given his injury.
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Correct.
 
RikRuud said:
IF De Gea leaves, then for Lloris is by far the best longterm replacement. Lets not forget we have Valdes too who is still world class.
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Do we really know this? Some people think that was debatable to begin with, but really we've no idea what sort of level he is at right now. U-21 games wouldn't tell us much either way.
 
It would have to be Valdes surely - much too hard/expensive to get Cech or Lloris from Chelsea and Levy, and I'm sure about other Premier League options being good enough (for all the talk of Begovic, he's been at Stoke for such a long time without anyone going in for him). But the fact that Valdes hasn't played a game for us yet - even in the cup - might suggest that he's not being readied for when the inevitable happens, so who knows.

Maybe we'd bring in a back-up option to Valdes in the mould of what we did with DDG in the first place, i.e. bring in a young keeper with great potential and hope they develop to be the long-term solution. Of course DDG was already basically a sure-thing when we bought him, and I'm not sure there are any young keepers now in a similar position? How's Zieler doing?
 
Zieler's been pretty solid, still has the potential although he's now 26. Leno would be good, could become a beast.

I honestly think Valdes won't cut it. Like Falcao's situation he hadn't played for a long time, he may not be at his best now.
 
Petr Cech, only 32 and in my opinion the fourth best keeper in the world. Would cost less than 10m and could theoretically gives us 5+ years of service. Obviously I hope DDG doesn't leave and at the moment I'm still fairly confident he'll stay.
 
Sadly I think de gea will be sold in the summer, we should go for cech because it guarantees having a very good goalkeeper, last thing we need with all the rebuilding in the summer will be a dodgy keeper. I think Valdes would be a bit of a disaster and who knows how badly the injury has affected him.
 
People are acting as though it's as easy as snapping your fingers and Spurs will sell their best player to you. :lol:
 
I think Cech is by far the most capable replacement. We should 100% devote everything to getting him if De Gea goes away, I can see him having a Van Der Sar like career with us.
 
I'd like Lloris but dealing with Levy is a pain, If LvG is still here next year it will no doubt be Valdes.
 
Ish84045 said:
Wrong. He was immense in his final 1.5 - 2 years with Barca. Not sure how he'd deal with the physicality of the EPL (DDG also struggled initially), but at his role in the Barca set up, he was world class. Especially shot stopping :drool:
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There's more to being a world class goalkeeper than shot stopping, De Gea has given us a perfect study in this, fantastic shot stopper to all-round world class goalkeeper. Valdes' advantage is he's great with the ball at his feet and quick off his line (although not good off his line I should add), he was in a very unique position which allowed him to flourish, it would be idiotic to expect him to be anywhere near as effective in any other team. He never was world class, he was simply very good and in a team that matched his skill set perfectly.

Still, no where near as fecking ridiculous as the Tim Krul suggestions.
 
Signing Lloris would be like pulling teeth. Levy would revel in the fact we were quite desperate, and depending on Lloris' contract and the fee we offered, he may just keep him an extra year, even if he wanted out.
 
It's really bad karma to be speculating on this topic. Can it not at least wait until the summer?

And no, we can't contact other keepers right now to see if they would like to come to United.
 
Dion said:
There's more to being a world class goalkeeper than shot stopping, De Gea has given us a perfect study in this, fantastic shot stopper to all-round world class goalkeeper. Valdes' advantage is he's great with the ball at his feet and quick off his line (although not good off his line I should add), he was in a very unique position which allowed him to flourish, it would be idiotic to expect him to be anywhere near as effective in any other team. He never was world class, he was simply very good and in a team that matched his skill set perfectly.

Still, no where near as fecking ridiculous as the Tim Krul suggestions.
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Yeah, agreed with what you're saying, but we can agree to disagree on the Valdes bit. He put in world class performances for Barca on a consistent basis IMO. But yeah, it's highly debatable. FWIW, my number one choice, all things equal, would be Cech.

Lloris would be expensive.
 
Cech is the goalkeeper we need to replace De Gea, he's experienced enough to organise a defence (which we really could use anyway) and still got 4-5 years at the top theoretically which offers stability for LvG.
 
Dion said:
Cech is the goalkeeper we need to replace De Gea, he's experienced enough to organise a defence (which we really could use anyway) and still got 4-5 years at the top theoretically which offers stability for LvG.
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Agreed. And he'd also come cheap.
 
Getting Cech or Loris would be very hard. Antony Lopez from Lyon looks a good keeper to me.

Dion said:
There's more to being a world class goalkeeper than shot stopping, De Gea has given us a perfect study in this, fantastic shot stopper to all-round world class goalkeeper. Valdes' advantage is he's great with the ball at his feet and quick off his line (although not good off his line I should add), he was in a very unique position which allowed him to flourish, it would be idiotic to expect him to be anywhere near as effective in any other team. He never was world class, he was simply very good and in a team that matched his skill set perfectly.

Still, no where near as fecking ridiculous as the Tim Krul suggestions.
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Exactly, he's been injured ages and will struggle wit the crossing play in the PL. He should not be anything more than a back-up no matter what happened with De Gea.
 
I'd have no problem with giving Valdes a season.

Outside of that then either Begovic, Cech or Lloris. The latter will cost a fortune I expect.
 
Orc said:
People are acting as though it's as easy as snapping your fingers and Spurs will sell their best player to you. :lol:
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Money talks. I agree he'd cost a fortune though.
 
as good as lloris is he isn't in the same league as de gea and will cost stupid amounts. Happy to give Valdez a season then take it from there
 
I'd like Lloris, but I'd imagine it'd be extremely difficult to sign him.

Begovic isn't a bad shout. Doubt we'd get Cech. van Gaal may want Krul, and I'm not too sure about him.
 
Speak said:
Signing Lloris would be like pulling teeth. Levy would revel in the fact we were quite desperate, and depending on Lloris' contract and the fee we offered, he may just keep him an extra year, even if he wanted out.
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Signed a new deal in the summer if I recall. Spurs would have all the power no doubt. Best avoided really.
 
It's simple really, if De Gea goes he will join Real Madrid (I think it's almost nailed on to be honest) and they have a very good goalkeeper with proven record sitting on their bench, he will be relegated to third choice after they've signed De Gea. We should ask for Navas and £20m in return (they won't give us more with him having only a year left on his contract, they paid £25m for Kroos in the same position), that'd be a fine deal. If we could get Varane out of this deal we'd actually be stronger.
 
KiD MoYeS said:
I'd like Lloris, but I'd imagine it'd be extremely difficult to sign him.

Begovic isn't a bad shout. Doubt we'd get Cech. van Gaal may want Krul, and I'm not too sure about him.
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Krul? Why, just because he's Dutch?

Unlikely as he's clearly not good enough. He wasn't even his first choice for the Netherlands.
 
Carl said:
Krul? Why, just because he's Dutch?

Unlikely as he's clearly not good enough. He wasn't even his first choice for the Netherlands.
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There was talk of Krul a while back. I'd say van Gaal will most likely go with Valdes, as he's comfortable receiving back passes all the time.
 
Van Gaal didn't rate Krul enough to play him as first choice at World Cup. Very doubtful that he'd go for him.
 
KiD MoYeS said:
There was talk of Krul a while back. I'd say van Gaal will most likely go with Valdes, as he's comfortable receiving back passes all the time.
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We were linked with a host of mediocre Dutch players in the Summer with nothing coming of it. Tabloid gossip and nothing more.
 
Sarni said:
Van Gaal didn't rate Krul enough to play him as first choice at World Cup. Very doubtful that he'd go for him.
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Exactly. He's also appalling with the ball at his feet.
 
I'd go for Lloris.

He's at an age where we'll get years of service, is one of the best keepers in the league and although I hate the argument, in the case of goalkeepers Premier League proven is a huge plus.

Yes he'll cost a fortune, but passing on quality to look for cheaper options is a mistake we shouldn't repeat again.
 
Mattia Perin of Genoa.

Excellent shot stopper, only 22 years of age, has great reflexes, consistently puts in stable performances, and can stay concentrated for 90 mins which is a prerequisite for keepers at top clubs. His biggest and perhaps only weakness from a goalkeeping perspective is distribution but IMO training under Van Gaal and observing Valdes on a weekly basis will help him iron out that flaw. The latest from a conveyor belt of great Italian goalkeepers which also includes others talents like Leali, Scuffet or Bardi, has already been capped for Italy at the international level, has Top 5 keeper in the world potential and won't cost as much as Lloris who is very susceptible to lapses in judgement IMO.

Alternatively, Loris Karius.
 
shaggy said:
Perhaps if we weren't so useless. Why would he want to stay with us over Madrid at this point?
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TOP 4 - possibility
Atletico Madrid
He can make us Break the bank
He is assured at least 7 more years even if he begins to under perform, we aren't trigger happy like Madrid
Why go to a place where you would be under appreciated? when you will be loved in Manchester?
*We will probably sign a sponsorship deal with a Spanish Food company at some point and provide him with Unlimited Home cooked meals.

* - not meant to be taken seriously.
 
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