De Gea-what’s he actually good at

He has been exposed far too often over the last 5 seasons maybe his nerves are shot due to what's in front of him.

comment by Darren The King Fletcher (U10026)
posted 5 hours, 19 minutes ago
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 2 minutes ago
EtH has to take a lot of the blame thinking he could change a 31 year old keeper over a few weeks to be good on the ball when he’s been known to be sh-t at it his entire career.
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I really don’t get how he didn’t make a goalkeeper his first priority.
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Think it’s a very good case study of why you’re still struggling tbh.

He has never been the best goalkeeper in the world... he has never been more than a great shot stopper.

You cannot be poor with the ball at your feet, and be reluctant to come off your line, and be the best goalkeeper in the world. Another overrated United player.

He's finished but we have said that before and he shows good form for a couple of months then regresses.

I think he needs a new challenge, he's gone stale and he just has a regular clanger in him, that won't change.

Saving at his near post.
Good with the ball at his feet
Commanding in air and coming out to collect crosses
Coming off his line to make one-on-one saves
Organising his backline

comment by livinthedream (U12817)
posted 8 hours, 7 minutes ago
He has been exposed far too often over the last 5 seasons maybe his nerves are shot due to what's in front of him.
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With a captain such as Maguire in front of you, you'd probably lose any sort of motivation, focus, determination and ability after years of watching that pr!ck make mistake after mistake.
Not to mention, the constant changing of tactics due to new managers.
He needs to leave so he can reignite his fire. I'm sure he'd do fine elsewhere.

* He is, and always was, actually pretty good at poor decision-making.

* He is, and always was, actually pretty good at poor positioning.

* He is, and always was, actually very good at creating uncertainty in his defence.

* He is, and always was, actually very good at not dominating his area with his body and hands.

* He is, and always was, also actually good at being an iffy distributor of the ball.

* He is most excellent, however, at producing, what my dear ol' granny used to refer to as, "photographers saves".

Other than all the things that he can be listed above as actually being "good" at, however, are paled by his inability to even be average, by epl standards, at his job, AND absolutely nothing beats his ability to convince the unknowing otherwise.

Said it for years even when he was in his prime for you and i got stick for it on here. Absolutely world class shot stopper, average gk. The guys been a joy to watch from a football/prem fans pov, i imagine the highlight saves reel from him would be outstanding. Hes prob a bit unfortunate to be a gk in this era i guess. Probably the best shotstopper ive seen or one of.

Is he good with his feet? No

Well id say yeah if you're talking about using them to make saves. I really really dislike how most keepers would rather dive ontop of their toes than just stand still and use their feet to make a save! how many times keepers are beaten tryna dive ontop of a shot and it goes under them where replays shows if they stand still and do nothing it probably hits them and is saved! Hes certainly one of the best ive seen using his feet and legs for saves.

De Gea was in his prime before the likes of Pep and Klopp evolved football, so what he is good at isn't good enough anymore for his position.

De Gea is great. He’s fine where he is