After witnessing Onana and his disaster performances, part of me wishes that we would have done the same thing with De Gea and Kovar. But I think the last months of the season and the disaster class De Gea pulled during the FA Cup final basically sealed his fate.
When it comes to Kovar, every time I've seen him play he always impressed me with his maturity, even at the senior level. His performances in the pre season have to be our best GK performances of this season so far(which speaks volumes about our current GK situation). He was good at everything: assured in possession, good at beating the press, very good reflexes and he even claimed high balls(which coming from the last 5 years DDG was quiet the refereshing change of pace).
Instead we went with the short term quick fix approach yet again and we've landed a player that we hope is going to come good(next to Mount and Amrabat). Now I know that you might be thinking that if Kovar stayed, he could have ended up the same way. True, but at least we would have a had an experienced, yet limited GK that we could fall back on and he wouldn't have cost us 1/3 of our summer budget. Could have sold him next summer too if we decided he wasn't good enough.
So far the only players that have trully impressed me this season were all academy graduates: Mejbri, Mainoo, Garnacho. It's sad to think that we might have had our GK long term solution in the academy, but instead we went on and spent 40+ million on a keeper that have severe flaws with the fundamentals we hope is going to come good. That money could have been better spent elsewhere: getting a better RB or a higher quality CM, but instead it looks like it's more of the same.
In times like these I especially miss SAF, because that's what he would have done. He would have slowly phased out DDG in favor of Kovar or Vitek.
