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badkins said:
Typical Scousers mentality regarding our transfer business:

Valdes as free agent "Yes we should sign him, top clubs now have 2 keepers"
Valdes as Man United player "Normally you don't see two top keepers at one club" "Outfield players need to know who's No 1" :lol:

Remember Jones or Young transfers, it was all the same. King Kenny tricked us with being "interested" in Young, forcing us to sign him asap, so they could get Downing instead.
Also remember that they never wanted Jones, they tricked us again, so they could sign Coates who's twice a player.

Valdes seem to be a very good transfer for me.
Experience, winning mentality, plus he's the most decorated player in our dressing room - example for many young players.
Signing player of his calibre always bring a positive boost for everybody around, can't wait for his debut.
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The Jones one was the best!

Scousers were interested in him...The next big thing, future England captian!...

We were on the verge of signing him, He's useless, over rated and over priced because he's british and Coates is 10x better...

Liverpool make a late attempt to sign him...Would be a great signing...one of the best young Cb in the world...

United sign him...Never wanted him anyway, too over rated!
 
Sarni said:
Di Maria? When were they even linked with him, he's so far out of their price range that they shouldn't even consider it.
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Sorry i spent too much time on the dailystar. :D
 
Hardly watch him play when he was at barca, but is he any good?

Will he adopt to the premiership?

Ddg struggle like hell in his first season here.
 
The Azzurri said:
Hardly watch him play when he was at barca, but is he any good?

Will he adopt to the premiership?

Ddg struggle like hell in his first season here.
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He is the best ball playing goalkeeper, he has great reflexes but he is not very physical, so he will probably struggle with the PL physicality maybe more than DDG.
 
The Azzurri said:
Will he play in the fa cup matches from now on?
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I can't see much of a reason why he'd be granted the FA Cup games. If he's coming to the club as a backup keeper, that's what he'll be aside from the odd exception.
 
Act you age, not your squad number!

Oh wait:

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See what gives me solace is that De Gea has played every game for us, including the two cup games against opposition much lower than us. Makes me think Van Gaal doesn't rate Lindegaard at all and just wants to replace him rather preparing for De Gea's departure. At least that is what I'm holding on to.
 
These are truly the words of a man who knows he is in a delicate position with the fans:

Are you going to try to provide competition for [De gea]?
I am here to help everybody. Always in my career, I have played to help my team-mates, to help my coach and to help everybody. I am a part of the team and I am not a problem, I am just a part of the team. If I play a game, I am always thinking about playing well and to help the other team-mates, to help them to win the match.​

http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-F...ontent=CI&utm_campaign=newsletters&qsut=www10

Don't think I've ever before heard a new keeper say anything but "I'm not here to sit on the bench, I'm here to win the no1 spot!"

"I am not a problem":lol:
 
Amongst all the flurry of "will Dave be leaving now?" chat... we have signed a seriously experienced and talented goalkeeper to go alongside our no 1. This is fantastic news. His experience and confidence should be invaluable.
 
Im thinking (or hoping) that having a very realistic threat to DDGs no 1 spot will spur him on to even better things. DDG is currently better than Valdes in my opinion but I think he could still learn a lot from Valdes and push himself further to improve.

Im hoping the extra competition will boost De Gea rather than cause any issues. Anyway lets just get De Gea on a long term contract soon and then all fears will be gone.
 
It really does help having players who have that worldclass aura about them of winning the best competitions in the game, it makes training that bit more competitive and intense. It makes players up their game too.

e.g. Imagine a training match where one keeper has De Gea and the other has Valdes rather than Amos/Lindegaard. It almost feels like a Champions League final in itself.
 
MyOnlySolskjaer said:
It really does help having players who have that worldclass aura about them of winning the best competitions of the game, it makes training that bit more competitive and intense. It makes players up their game too.

e.g. Imagine a training match where one keeper has De Gea and the other has Valdes rather than Amos/Lindegaard. It almost feels like a Champions League final in itself.
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No strikers will want to sign for us, spending the year struggling to score during training.
 
JPRouve said:
No strikers will want to sign for us, spending the year struggling to score during training.
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Thankfully we already have some of the best strikers in the world! And if they can score past De Gea/Valdes I'm sure they can score past your everyday Mignolet's, Szczesny and Joe Hart's with their eyes closed.

Exciting times ahead.
 
My take on the gameplan is this;

We want david de gea to sign a new deal and continue his amazing form.
Valdes is helped back from a serious injury and is signed as competition for dave but as of now solidly no.2, should make dave even better training with valdes.
This not only improves our depth and experience in the first team, but gives the club a security in case Dave either a)doesn't sign a new deal, b) madrid comes in with a massive offer and he wants to go c) combination of both.

If Dave signed a new 5/6 year long term deal and we lock him up for the long term, we wont pick up the extra year on valdes contract and he can move on to another big european club fully recovered with his stock high from playing with us.

Everyone wins here.
 
Louis van Gaal: Victor Valdes won't be happy as second-choice keeper
 
People saying he chose to be United's second choice rather than Liverpool's first. Love it! :lol::lol::lol:
 
The Red Thinker said:
Ooh excellent point. Valdes used to do that a lot, but I wasn't the biggest fan of his sweeper keeping/ He's made errors before and I don't realistically see anyone other than that giant Neuer doing it right. Gary Neville did an excellent bit on Sky about De Gea's improvement. He waits more on the line and waits for the shooter to make his first move and then he reacts. It really is top class.
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He has tremendous reflexes so waiting for attacker to make the first move fits DDG. Valdes has played with Barcelona and I think he'll help DDG possession game if anything. Like you said, coming off the line would be a waste of his biggest asset.
 
Long gone are the days where the scousers assumed that because a players nationality is Spanish he will automatically sign for them.
 
I'm concerned about the recent influX of heavily tattooed lads.
 
His interview with MUTV was excellent. Came across really well, good luck to him. But hopefully we only see him when DDG is rested for Cup games.
 
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