Heavy body mass and lack of agility. Makes deflected shots seem impossible to save because he's already planted his foot and can only pray it goes wide.
Onana has not worked out. We need a new keeper.
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I read on another United site that the decision has already been made on him and the club will try to move him on in the summer. If he decides he doesn't want to move then he'll end up as 2nd choice keeper as club acknowledge that he's not good enough going forward.
I think that knowledge is an impediment to a good opinon, and certainty is more enjoyable without awareness. I came to this thread because I believe it’s the place for me.
Let's hope it's true. A top quality keeper and striker can make a huge difference to the team. However, I am not sure we'll have the money to get an expensive first choice keeper in addition to all the other positions we need to bring in players.
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You shouldnt believe everything you read on the internet
Fundamentals. He gets them all wrong. Ben Foster does an analysis of keepers and he did one for Onana for Solankes shot. To the untrained eye it doesn't seem that bad and probably most of the keepers in the would get it wrong. But for a really top keeper they need to be in the exact spot, dive the exact right time etc. And they need to do this 99 percent of the time. Onana is always a step too left, half a step too right, start diving half a second too early etc. Its hard for us fans who are not pros or analysts to see what's exactly wrong but you can just tell its off.
Such a brutal game for him, he was excellent and had a couple of great interventions, good in distribution, and then he does this fecking punch, it's a clear penalty for me.
Was good, great even, but then that punch, and it’s not the first one. Clear pen.
He had a really good game until he tried to correct Casemiro his ridiculous header. He did that way too rash. I put the blame for that penalty mostly on Casemiro though
Sometimes great, sometimes shit, usually lacking composure. He’s the Fred of keepers - erratic and not good enough.
Had a solid solid game and im far from a fan of his, Burnley would have been 3 up comfortably if not for him.
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Probably a neutral performance. On one hand, a couple of nice saves. On another, he went Stone Cold Steve Austin on someone and cost us two points.
Does he ever read the room before he goes for the ball?
One of my mates is right about one thing: there is no way there is a dumber goalkeeper than Onana. He cost us at least 20 points in the League and that is before I say anything about his Champions League feck-ups.
One of my mates is right about one thing: there is no way there is a dumber goalkeeper than Onana. He cost us at least 20 points in the League and that is before I say anything about his Champions League feck-ups.
Onana saved us 1 point. It could've easily been 2/3-0 to Burnely in the first half. Huge credit to him.
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He cost us three points, mate.
Not at all. Are we forgetting the chances the players missed in the first half? Garnacho had a couple and so did Antony.
He elbowed a player when the ball was already won because he can't read the game well enough. Conceedes a pen and we go on to draw. He had some good saves, but he didn't save us.
Kind of felt like he was due to give a pen away exactly like that, after he got away with similar in the first game of the season against Wolves. Casemiro put him in a bad spot and he flapped like debut season De Gea.
Back to being wank again then.
A trainwreck.
Said it in November. Worst shot stopper in the PL by a mile.
Cost a goal three games in a row. We paid £50m to add another big problem with the team.
He is extremely poor, does not have the mentality to make it here but then who does out there. Can you imagine relying on this guy in tight, crucial games and he just goes and lets in shots from outside the box down the middle of the goal time and time again. We saw how we was in important games during the champions league group stages and he single handedly cost us in those.
Such bad scouting, I remember signing him and rival friends showing youtube clips of his goalkeeping...oh boy was youtube spot on. His inter spell can't erase the clowness from within
I've defended him most of the season and said you could make a case for building a team with him in it as well as the youngsters but he just inspires no confidence at all.
He might be a good keeper in a team/system like City's but he hasn't been that great with his kicking and if you take away that there's not much left. Looks like more wasted money.
He might be a good keeper in a team/system like City's but he hasn't been that great with his kicking and if you take away that there's not much left. Looks like more wasted money.
Who cares about shot stopping? He can transform us into possession based high pressing team. He will act as Sweeper. He will totally transform our style of play and even improve our attacking play. Or along those lines. 50M down the drain
Onana is basically the reason I've become an Xg atheist because if there's any stat to suggest he is any way a competent keeper it's obviously bullshit.
I just can't believe such a large portion of our fanbase is so happy with a keeper that makes most shots look unsaveable. Same shite time and time again with him. Absolutely woeful.
I just can't believe such a large portion of our fanbase is so happy with a keeper that makes most shots look unsaveable. Same shite time and time again with him. Absolutely woeful.
Only Erik Ten Hag would buy a keeper that's good with his feet and shit at everything else, and then decide to play 'fast transition' based football
Wasting everyone's time. Bring back De Gea if you're not going to implement a consistent ball playing system.
Wasting everyone's time. Bring back De Gea if you're not going to implement a consistent ball playing system.
It was the same with Harry Maguire. I didn't watch much of Leicester City bar on MOTD. You could see from the brief highlights he was never worth the money. I can only conclude our scouts don't even watch YouTube clips. They just go after names.
Yeh, fair point there.
I'm basically using my 5 newbie posts a day to make the case against this clown. I've been supporting united since about 96 and genuinely can only think of a couple of keepers I rate lower than him and certainly none that were consistent number 1's.
So many gaping holes in his technique, massive questions about his concentration and for me his character too. Did anyone see him run out of his box to instruct a team mate how to take a free kick during AFCON? The part he actually played before being dropped for some part time keeper.
If in the absolute never happening scenario we became a top team again would you want someone like him in nets on the biggest occasions? Prone to a total howler or falling asleep and being unable to make a straightforward save at a rate of at least once a game.
So many gaping holes in his technique, massive questions about his concentration and for me his character too. Did anyone see him run out of his box to instruct a team mate how to take a free kick during AFCON? The part he actually played before being dropped for some part time keeper.
If in the absolute never happening scenario we became a top team again would you want someone like him in nets on the biggest occasions? Prone to a total howler or falling asleep and being unable to make a straightforward save at a rate of at least once a game.
He's just so average
That’s his technique when there’s a shot on target
https://youtube.com/shorts/ga9W-WKcmrI?si=OL__tp1I-dJHJixh
https://youtube.com/shorts/ga9W-WKcmrI?si=OL__tp1I-dJHJixh
Waste of a lot of money.
That's generous.