[MadDogg]

I couldn't understand why we signed him on loan, other than it was part of the tendency to have two backup keepers, even though they are hardly ever used (especially with ETH, who's stuck with DDG far more than Jose and Ole). He's at the tail end of a mess that was triggered when Henderson started demanding first team time - that led to us losing Romero, the best No 2 keeper in the EPL at the time, for no good reason, then having to bring in Heaton, then Dúbravka coming on loan and going back ........

From all reports it was Ole dropping Romero once we hit the semi's of all three of FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League in 19/20 that resulted in him being furious and wanting to leave. He always seemed happy sticking around as our cup keeper, but being dropped like that in all three was terrible man-management from Ole. Made worse by De Gea probably being the reason we lost two of those three semi's (multiple bad mistakes in both the FA Cup and Europa).

Obviously Henderson coming back the following season also played it's part and ultimately would have had the same result, but Romero already wanted out before that.

 

[dalriada]

From all reports it was Ole dropping Romero once we hit the semi's of all three of FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League in 19/20 that resulted in him being furious and wanting to leave. He always seemed happy sticking around as our cup keeper, but being dropped like that in all three was terrible man-management from Ole. Made worse by De Gea probably being the reason we lost two of those three semi's (multiple bad mistakes in both the FA Cup and Europa).

Obviously Henderson coming back the following season also played it's part and ultimately would have had the same result, but Romero already wanted out before that.

OK, vaguely remember newspaper talk that Romero was unhappy about the cup semis, although the talk also was that the deal with DDG was that he would get the semis onwards as No 1 keeper. It seemed more the case that his contract wasn't renewed, though, once Henderson came into the first team, and he ended up in Serie B. He would probably be gone by now anyway, mind you.