De Gea Replacement

Who is your preferred replacement for De Gea?

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I don't think we can afford to let this happen.

Lesson learned from Ronaldo.

I think we will end up making him the by far highest paid keeper in the world.

If we would have paid Ronaldo ludicrous money he'd probably have stayed too.
 
If it's about money then he'll stay, if he wants to live in Madrid then we are buggered.
 
Will Chelsea sell us Petr Cech? I don't think it would be hard to convince the player now that its firmly confirmed he's the #2 and he's only 32, so atleast 4 more years of good service left in him and as much as I love de Beard, there's not much drop off in quality between those two.
 
It seems our recent atrocious performances, seem to have reflected on the fan's transfer standards.. People thinking the likes of de Jong and Krul are united quality ...:lol::lol:

If we want to move forward, those are not the signings to make.
 
I will actually cry if Valdes replaces De Gea. This is exactly the reason our squad right now is crap compared to Europe's best teams.
El-Manos said:
It seems our recent atrocious performances, seem to have reflected on the fan's transfer standards.. People thinking the likes of de Jong and Krul are united quality ...:lol::lol:

If we want to move forward, those are not the signings to make.
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We replaced Rio and Vidic with Marcos Rojo so anything is possible with us these days. No wonder our squad is awful compared to Europe's best teams when you are bringing in inferior players to replace the core of your team with.

De Gea was actually a brilliant replacement for VDS, and now he might be getting replaced with an inferior player to in Valdes.
 
SonnyTheHaloPro said:
I will actually cry if Valdes replaces De Gea. This is exactly the reason our squad right now is crap compared to Europe's best teams.


We replaced Rio and Vidic with Marcos Rojo so anything is possible with us these days. No wonder our squad is awful compared to Europe's best teams when you are bringing in inferior players to replace the core of your team with.

De Gea was actually a brilliant replacement for VDS, and now he might be getting replaced with an inferior player to in Valdes.
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I still think De Gea will stay, rojo is quite young and still has potential so we will see how he develops. But yes I agree, you need to replace quality with quality simple as. De Gea is currently the 2nd best keeper in the world, we will have our work cut out for us to find the right replacement if he does indeed decide to leave.
 
KingMinger22 said:
I don't think we can afford to let this happen.

Lesson learned from Ronaldo.

I think we will end up making him the by far highest paid keeper in the world.

If we would have paid Ronaldo ludicrous money he'd probably have stayed too.
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If that was the case then there would be literally no chance of Ronaldo being sold that summer. We would have matched or bettered Real Madrids salary.
 
Igor Drefljak said:
There is a lot more going for him if he goes to Spain to be honest, that's what makes me think he will go
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Yep it's not about the money really despite some ludicrous suggestions that a player would solely stay at the club if we offered ridculous money.

I'd be fine with Valdes as a replacement, he's experienced enough and has already played and done well at a big club. Handling that pressure is tough for most keepers that come to United. We have greater issues elsewhere.
 
IF de Gea leaves then it will be Valdes surely. LvG gave him his debut, knows him, rates him and surely played a major role in bringing him to United. Valdes is also in his prime years even though it feels like he has retired after last season's injury. Don't see why LvG wouldn't give him the chance to be the number 1. That is, IF de Gea leaves.
 
AngeloHenriquez said:
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Because De Gea is a word class goalkeeper that can win you loads of points every season. Valdes has never been as good as De Gea is now. The gap in quality between the two keepers is actually quite big right now and Valdes has had some injury problems 2. At the end of the day all we are going to be doing is downgrading another position in our squad which will again just make us weaker.
 
Despite RM being the richer club and Atletico probably not maintaining their form permanently at the very top over the next few years I somehow still see him ending up at Atletico rather than RM.
He doesn't come across as a money grabbing mercenary, would have less media attention there than at RM, would live in Madrid and rejoin his boyhood club and all that. Plus if he actually signs on a free for them then he could earn himself a very high signing on fee, he would definitely not be playing for peanuts there.

And despite most players following the money and glory not every player does it. David Villa for example stayed at Valencia till 2010 and he was already 28 then. Every big club in Europe had been after him for years but he joined Barca only in 2010.
 
The difference in wages between atm and rm could easily be 3 or 4 times more, too much to ignore for the many years he still has left. If he leaves now it will probably be for real madrid. Atlético just bought two goalkeepers and could be out of CL spots by the end of the season, while real are phasing out Casillas this or next season.
 
SonnyTheHaloPro said:
Because De Gea is a word class goalkeeper that can win you loads of points every season. Valdes has never been as good as De Gea is now. The gap in quality between the two keepers is actually quite big right now and Valdes has had some injury problems 2. At the end of the day all we are going to be doing is downgrading another position in our squad which will again just make us weaker.
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How much have you seen of Valdés?
 
AngeloHenriquez said:
How much have you seen of Valdés?
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Enough to know he's right, Valdes has been injured for starters and is 33, secondly he's a good sweeper keeper but poor on crosses which is a major issue for the PL. The guy further up talking about us changing out our best players for inferior ones being a step in the wrong direction is right, that's what Arsenal did for years and it's a recipe for failure.

Moves like replacing De Gea with Valdes and bringing in players like Ings or Berahino only takes us further away from trying to get back where we were.
 
I still do not think De Gea leaves but, I am warming up to the thought of Valdes. Similar to Van Dar Sar he would be a European cup winning GK looking to prove himself all over again. Then bring in someone like Alphonse Areola, Mattia Perin or even bring back Ron-Robert Zieler as possible.
 
When making this thread I was expecting alot more hostility towards the notion of De Gea leaving for Madrid but it seems the consensus has accepted that it is possible and IF it does occur, Valdes would be a fair for a season trial.
 
Keeps It tidy said:
I still do not think De Gea leaves but, I am warming up to the thought of Valdes. Similar to Van Dar Sar he would be a European cup winning GK looking to prove himself all over again.
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So in that case just buy Cech, who tikes all those boxes and is 4 or 5 times the goalkeeper Valdes is and far better suited to the Premier League.
 
United are not getting Cech unless they are ready to pay 30mn for him.
 
Hemil said:
United are not getting Cech unless they are ready to pay 30mn for him.
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You're talking horse shit, he's out of contract when De Gea is.

It would cost £10m tops, he's earned a feck-load of credit at Chelsea and frankly Mourinho would let him where he wanted after hanging around for an extra year.
 
Dion said:
1) Valdes was never world class
2) Even if he was, highly unlikely he would be given his injury.
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Valdes has been one of the best goalkeepers in the modern game over the years. You don't win what Barca have won in the last 10 years with an average goalkeeper. If the likes of Peter Schmeichel call him world class, then I am inclined to take his word for it. We are lucky to have him.
 
RikRuud said:
Valdes has been one of the best goalkeepers in the modern game over the years. You don't win what Barca have won in the last 10 years with an average goalkeeper. If the likes of Peter Schmeichel call him world class, then I am inclined to take his word for it. We are lucky to have him.
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Schmeichel was a great goalkeeper, he isn't a) an infallible judge of goalkeepers b) immune to bias.

And nobody said he was 'average', you're just being stupid there. He was clearly a very good goalkeeper, just like the goalkeepers of many other teams who have won bucket loads. Real Madrid won the Champions League last year with Casillas who has been way below that level for a long time.

We're lucky to have him as a backup, as a first choice goalkeeper he'd be exceptionally underwhelming.
 
Dion said:
Schmeichel was a great goalkeeper, he isn't a) an infallible judge of goalkeepers b) immune to bias.

And nobody said he was 'average', you're just being stupid there. He was clearly a very good goalkeeper, just like the goalkeepers of many other teams who have won bucket loads. Real Madrid won the Champions League last year with Casillas who has been way below that level for a long time.

We're lucky to have him as a backup, as a first choice goalkeeper he'd be exceptionally underwhelming.
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Assuming De Gea does leave, who would you go for?
 
Dion said:
You're talking horse shit, he's out of contract when De Gea is.

It would cost £10m tops, he's earned a feck-load of credit at Chelsea and frankly Mourinho would let him where he wanted after hanging around for an extra year.
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The big caveat from Mourinho, however, is that Chelsea would only countenance a sale that reflects Cech’s ongoing status as one of the best goalkeeper in the world.

“I don’t think Petr is a guy to be persuaded,” said Mourinho. “I will just wait, wishing his decision is to stay. But I don’t waste my time trying to persuade him. If he tells me he wants to leave I will tell him my opinion: that he is one of the three best goalkeepers in the world, so huge money.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...eave-Chelsea-but-it-will-take-huge-offer.html
 
RikRuud said:
Assuming De Gea does leave, who would you go for?
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Dion said:
So in that case just buy Cech, who tikes all those boxes and is 4 or 5 times the goalkeeper Valdes is and far better suited to the Premier League.
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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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