largelyworried
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Doesn't really get you much further, does it. Because that's still the GK who has decide if and when there's doubt.
Also, that in the end means that you only do as much build-up play as your GKs confidence and decision-making allows. So while that's a sound rule of thumb to minimise the risk of really bad cock-ups by the GK, it doesn't really bring you much closer to being able to vary correctly between playing out from the back and playing it long according to the opponents posture.
Firstly, this is asking De Gea to do no more than he has done so far in his entire career. I rate De Gea not a jot but lets not over egg the pudding here. Suggesting that he can't even figure out how to make a short pass to an unmarked player is kind of ridiculous.
But secondly, I think you've got the wrong end of the stick. This is not a defence of De Gea. The original poster said that we should ditch playing out from the back and go for simple and direct football. All I'm saying is that there are ways of mitigating De Gea's biggest weaknesses that still permits us to try playing some measure of progressive football. The preferred solution would be to ditch De Gea for a better keeper, but in the absence of that, I don't think we need to ditch the whole thing and go direct.
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